World Association for Complementary Practitioners

Herbalism is a cultural medication focused on the use of plants and plant extracts in medicine or folk medicine. Plant extracts in herbal medicine were also known as botanical medicine, herbal medicine, herbal medicine, herbology, herbal medicine and phytotherapy. In Herbalism the traditional use of medicinal plant extracts is known as a way of learning about possible future medicines. In 2001, researchers reported 122 compounds used in conventional medicine that were extracted from "ethno medical" plant sources; 80 per cent of these compounds were used in the same or similar manner as traditional ethno-medical usage. In this form of Complementary Healing Therapy Plant extract has developed the ability to synthesize chemical compounds that help protect them from a wide range of predators such as insects, fungi and herbivorous mammals from attacks. By chance, though toxic to plant predators some of these compounds turn out to have beneficial effects when used to...

Identifying diseases is called cytology or cytopathology by looking at individual cells and small groups of tissues. In the past few decades it has been an important feature of cancer diagnosis. Although in biopsy samples the cell sections can be as small as 1/16 inch or much larger than (several inches), in cytology samples, the individual cells and cell clusters are typically too small to see without a microscopic lenses. Cytology is the assessment of individual cells and small clusters of cells, and can be used for disease analysis and testing, such as cancers. Cytology, too, can usually be called cytopathology. Scrape or brush cytology is another technique in which the tissues being studied are scraped or removed from the body or cells. This procedure can be used to collect samples of the oesophagus, uterus, bronchi (breathing pipes that lead to the lungs), and oral cavity. Most outcomes of routine cytology are available in the laboratory one or two days after t...