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Descriptor English: Plant Extracts
Descriptor Spanish: Extractos Vegetales
Descriptor extractos de plantas
Entry term(s) extracto vegetal
extractos vegetales
medicamentos a base de plantas medicinales
medicamentos herbarios
Scope note: Preparaciones farmacéuticas concentradas de origen vegetal obtenidas al eliminar los componentes activos con un medio adecuado, que se evapora, y ajustar la masa residual a un patrón prescrito.
Descriptor Portuguese: Extratos Vegetais
Descriptor French: Extraits de plantes
Entry term(s): Extract, Plant
Extracts, Plant
Herbal Medicines
Medicines, Herbal
Plant Extract
Tree number(s): D20.215.784.500
D26.667
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010936
Scope note: Concentrated pharmaceutical preparations of plants obtained by removing active constituents with a suitable solvent, which is evaporated away, and adjusting the residue to a prescribed standard.
Annotation: coordinate with specific plant and PLANT STRUCTURES term if pertinent; for use in therapy coordinate IM or NIM with phytotherapy (IM) + disease / drug ther (IM); extracts of medicinal plants in Chinese medicine = PLANT EXTRACTS, CHINESE see DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL
Allowable Qualifiers: AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BI biosynthesis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Previous Indexing: Plants (1966)
Public MeSH Note: 76; was see under PLANTS 1975
History Note: 76(67); was see under PLANTS 1975
Related: Phytotherapy MeSH
DeCS ID: 23138
Unique ID: D010936
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1976/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2022/07/12
Plant Extracts - Preferred
Concept UI M0016957
Scope note Concentrated pharmaceutical preparations of plants obtained by removing active constituents with a suitable solvent, which is evaporated away, and adjusting the residue to a prescribed standard.
Preferred term Plant Extracts
Entry term(s) Extract, Plant
Extracts, Plant
Plant Extract
Herbal Medicines - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000757240
Preferred term Herbal Medicines
Entry term(s) Medicines, Herbal



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