Home remedy
Home remedy
A home remedy is a treatment to cure a disease or ailment that employs certain spices, vegetables, or other common items. Home remedies may or may not have medicinal properties that treat or cure the disease or ailment in question, as they are typically passed along by laypersons (which is a form of folk medicine).
Pronunciation
- /ˈhoʊm ˈrɛmədi/
Etymology
The term "home remedy" is derived from the Middle English word "remedie," which means a cure or treatment, and the Old English word "hām," meaning dwelling or place of residence.
Related terms
- Herbal medicine: The study or use of medicinal properties of plants.
- Traditional medicine: Systems of medicine developed before the era of modern medicine, based on cultural beliefs and practices handed down from generation to generation.
- Folk medicine: The healing practices and ideas of body physiology and health preservation known to some in a culture, transmitted informally as general knowledge, and practiced or applied by anyone in the culture having prior experience.
- Alternative medicine: Any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but which lacks biological plausibility and is untested, untestable or proven ineffective.
See also
- List of traditional medicine
- List of herbs and minerals in Ayurveda
- List of plants used in herbalism
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Home remedy
- Wikipedia's article - Home remedy
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