Alterative: Producing a healthful change without
perceptible evacuation
Anodyne: Relieves pain
Anthelmintic: An agent which expels worms
Aperient: Gently laxative, without purging
Aromatic: Stimulant, spicy
Astringent: Causes contraction and arrests discharges
Antibilious: Acts on the bile, relieving biliousness
Antiemetic: Stops vomiting
Antiepileptic: Relieves fits
Antiperiodic: Arrests morbid periodical movements
Anthilitic: Prevents the formation of calculi in the urinary
organs
Antirheumatic: Relieves or cures rheumatism
Antiscorbutic: Cures or prevents scurvy
Antiseptic: Opposed to putrefaction
Antispasmodic: Relieves or prevents spasms
Antisyphilitic: Having effect on or curing venereal diseases
Carminative: Expels wind from the bowels
Cathartic: Evacuating to the bowels
Cephalic: Used in diseases of the head
Cholagogue: Increases the flow of bile
Condiment: Improves flavor of food
Demulcent: Soothing, relieves inflammation
Deobstruent: Removes obstructions
Depurative: Purifies the blood
Detergent: Cleansing to boils, ulcers, and wounds
Diaphoretic: Produces perspiration
Discutient: Dissolves and removes tumors
Diuretic: Increases the secretion and flow of urine
Emetic: Produces vomiting
Emmenagogue: Promotes menstruation
Emollient: Softening and soothing to inflamed parts
Esculent: Eatable as food
Exanthematous: Remedy for skin eruptions and diseases
Expectorant: Facilitates expectoration
Febrifuge: Abates and reduces fevers
Hepatic: Remedy for diseases of the liver
Herpatic: Remedy for skin eruptions, ringworm, etc.
Laxative: Promotes bowel action
Lithontryptic: Dissolves calculi in the urinary
organs
Maturating: Ripens or brings boils, tumors,
and ulcers to a head
Mucilaginous: Soothing to inflamed parts
Nauseant: Produces vomiting
Nervine: Acts specifically on the nervous system, allaying
nervous excitement
Opthalmicum: A remedy for disease of the eye
Parturient: Induces and promotes labor at childbirth
Pectoral: Remedy to relieve chest affections
Refrigerant: Cooling
Resolvent: Dissolves and removes tumors
Rubifacient: Increases circulation, produces
red skin
Sedative: Tonic effect on nerves, also quieting
Sialagogue: Increases the secretion of saliva
Stomachic: Strengthens and gives tone to the stomach
Styptic: Arrests hemorrhage and bleeding
Sudorific: Produces profuse perspiration
Tonic: Remedy which is invigorating and strengthening
Vermifuge: Expels worms