Herbology is the therapeutic use of herbs
in treatments and diet. In the United States, herbal medicine generally refers
to a system of medicine that uses European or North American plants. Traditional
Chinese medicine (TCM) uses plants native to China or Asia, while Ayurvedic herbal
medicine uses plants native to India. Modern herbalists often use plants from
many different regions of the world, and they do not restrict their practice only
to those plants classified as an herb (a seed plant whose stem withers away annually).
Instead, in medicine, an herb can be a root, a piece of tree bark, a mushroom,
or anything else which falls into the plant kingdom
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