plural of pseudo-medicine

plural of Chinese patent medicine

The traditional medicinal and health practices of Indigenous Australians. / A plant, preparation, etc., used in bush medicine.

plural of medicinal finger

(medicine) The principal subset of medical practice, comprising all aspects of medicine that happen at the point of care, as opposed to the aspects that happen in the clinical laboratory, imaging center, medical school classroom, data center, or other nonclinical settings; thus, for example, the radiology service and the pathology service are conceptually differentiable, such that the clinical components of the diagnostic process (e.g., history, physical examination, point of care testing) are categorizable as distinct from the nonclinical ones that interface with the clinical activity (e.g., radiologic interpretation, histopathologic analysis, data analysis).

(euphemistic, humorous) Recreational drugs.

(historical) A branch of American medicine that made use of botanical remedies along with other substances and physical therapy practices, popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Any of the aggressive medical practices and methods used until the mid-19th century, particularly the dangerous and unproven treatments that were later replaced by scientific approaches.

The combination of mainstream medicine, based on scientific evidence, and alternative medicine.

(figuratively) Any advice or treatment that has no value or exacerbates the problem.