phytotherapy

Questions about phytotherapy

What does phytotherapy mean?

phytotherapy means "the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet)".

How many syllables are in phytotherapy?

phytotherapy has 5 syllables: phy-to-the-ra-py. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for phytotherapy?

Close synonyms include herbal therapy, botanical medicine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phytotherapy a common word?

phytotherapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.