Alterative - producing a healthful change without perception
Anodyne - relieves pain
Anthlemintic - a medicine that expels worms
Aperient - gently laxitive without purging
Aromatic - a stimulant; spicy
Astringent - causes contraction and arrests discharges
Antibilious - acts on the bile, relieving biliousness
Antimetic - stops vomiting
Antileptic - relieves fits
Antiperiodic - arrests the formation of stones in the urinary organs
Antirheumatic - relieves and cures rheumatiusm
Antiscorbutic - cures and prevents scurvy
Antiseptic - a medicine that aims at stopping putrification
Antispasmidic - relieves and prevents spasms
Antisyphilitic - having effect or curing venereal diseases
Carminative - expels wind from the bowels
Cathartic - evacuating from the bowels
Cephalic - remedies used in diseases of the head
Cholagogue - increases the flow of bile
Condiment - improves the flavor of food
Demulcent - soothing; relieves inflammation
Deobstruent - removes obstruction
Depirative - purifies the blood
Detergent - cleansing to boils, ulcers, etc
Diaphoretic - produces perspiration
Discutient - dissolves and heals tumors
Diruetic - increases the secretion and flow of urine
Emetic - produces vomiting
Emmenagogue - promotes mensturation
Emollient - Softening and soothing, especially to the skin.
Exanthematous - remedy for skin erruptions and diseases
Expectorant - facilitates expectoration (coughing)
Febrifuge - abates and reduces fever
Hepatic - a remedy for diseases of the liver
Herpatic - a remedy of skin diseases of all types
Laxative - promites bowel action
Lithontryptic - dissolves calculi in the urinary organs
Naturating - ripens and brings boils to a head
Mucilaginous - soothing to all inflammation
Nauseant - produces vomiting
Nervine - acts specifically on the nervous system; stops nervous excitement
Opthalmicum - a remedy for eye diseases
Parturient - induces and promotes labor at childbirth
Pectoral - a remedy for chest infections
Refrigerant - cooling
Resolvent - dissolves boils and tumors
Rubifacient - increases circulation and produces red skin
Sedative - a nerve tonic; produces sleep
Sialogogue - increases the secretion of saliva
Stomatic - strengthens the stomach. Relievs indigestion
Styptic - arrests bleeding
Sudorific - produces profuse perspiration
Tonic - a remedy which is invigorating and strengthening
Vermifuge - expels worms from the system