See Also: essential oils(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Oils(medicine)
oils, volatile(medicine)
concrete oils(medicine)
industrial oils(medicine)
fuel oils(medicine)
absolute oils(medicine)
fish oils(medicine)
plant oils(medicine)

essential oils (medicine)


essential oils
Plant products, usually somewhat volatile, giving the odours and tastes characteristic of the particular plant, thus possessing the essence, e.g., citral, pinene, camphor, menthane, terpenes; usually, the steam distillates of plants or oils of plants obtained by pressing out the rinds of a particular plant.

See: volatile oil.