Glossary
Herbal substance
A herbal substance is another phrase for plant matter, and they are often used as ingredients in herbal medicines.
Herbal substances come from plants and can be used in a range of different medicinal and therapeutic products. The European Medicines Agency define herbal substances as “whole, fragmented or cut plants, plant parts, algae, fungi, lichen in an unprocessed, usually dried form, but sometimes fresh”.
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