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Materia Medica

Medical Definition:	Materials or substances used in the composition of traditional medical remedies. The use of this term in MeSH was formerly restricted to historical articles or those concerned with traditional medicine, but it can also refer to homeopathic remedies. Nosodes are specific types of homeopathic remedies prepared from causal agents or disease products.
Guide Notes:	prefer the more specific PHYTOTHERAPY or HOMEOPATHY; coord IM with specific substance IM; for use in therapy coord /ther use (IM) with substance /ther use (IM) if permitted + disease /*drug ther (IM); do not capitalize Chinese names of various substances
Also Called:	Homeopathic Remedies,Nosodes
Previously Indexed:	Drugs (1966-1987),Folklore (1968-1987),Medicine, Arabic (1966-1987),Medicine, Ayurvedic (1966-1987),Medicine, Chinese Traditional (1975-1987),Medicine, Herbal (1966-1987),Medicine, Oriental Traditional (1966-1987),Medicine, Traditional (1966-1987)

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