Galenical

  1. Noun.  A vegetable or herbal remedy as prescribed by Galen; a simple cure.
  2. Adjective.  a medicinal preparation concocted mostly out of herbs or vegetable matter, after Galen, the Greek physician and writer of the second century.
  3. Adjective.  galenic.

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