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| Promotes perspiration, helping the body eminate wastes throught the skin. Some produce observable sweating, while others produce normal background perspiration. They often promote dilation of surface cappilaries, thus helping to improve poor circulation. This action is especially relevent in the treatment of fevers. |
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| Plants rich in aromatic volatile oils, or carminitives, promote appropriate digestive function, soothing the gut wall, reducing inflammation, easing griping pains, and heloing the body eliminate gas from the digestive tract. |
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| Plants that can be used to ease muscle cramps. They alleviate muscle tension. Many are also nervines (relaxing to the nervous system) and can ease psychological tension as well. Some work throughout the body and others work on specific body systems. |
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| Helps the body eliminate excess mucous- from the sinuses or from other parts of the body. |
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Herbs that stimulate the removal of mucous from the lungs,but the term is also often used to refer to respiratory system tonics. There are two basic categories:
Stimulating:Irritates the bronchials causing expulsion of material
Relaxing: Soothes the bronchial spasms and looosens mucous secretions, helping with dry irritating cough.
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| Increase the production and elimination of urine. In herbal medicine the term is often applied in a general way to herbs that have a benficial action on the urinary system. They help the body eliminate waste, and support the whole process of inner cleansing. |
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| A blister agent, or vesicant, is a chemical compound that causes severe skin, eye and mucosal pain and irritation. They are named for their ability to cause severe chemical burns, resulting in painful water blisters on the bodies of those affected.Wikipedia |
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