You have variety of plants in the forests, specially in tropical rain forests. Large number of plants have got medicinal properties. Every day, you are losing many varieties of plants. There is great potential for inventions in this field. Ancient Indians probably new lot about such medicinal plants. Lot of knowledge has been disappearing with each coming generation. Mighty Himalayas has been hiding many medicinal plants. The Arurveda confidently mentions that there is not a plant, that can not be used as a drug for some disease and there is not a disease, for which you do not have plant to be used as a drug.
It is inverse; chemistry is very important for medicine; all drugs, for ex. are chemicals.
Nothing, medicine are drugs. Medicine is just a friendlier word to use.
I would say that the lost of computers would be devastating. The lost of drugs would mean no medicine.
Medicine is drugs and drugs are medicines.
Thomas Jefferson was not addicted to medicine drugs or any bad type of drugs.
The Moors learned about cleanliness,diagnosis, and uses the effects of drugs
medicine type drugs
Their medical school taught the importance of cleanliness, diagnosis, and uses the effects of drugs.
In a medical context the words "drugs" and "medicine" are used interchangeably. However, "drugs" can be used as a slang term for illegal substances, whereas the word "medicine" is never used in this context.
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medicine or medication
Examples of these drugs are antihistamines, cold medicine, allergy medicine, sleep aids, medicine for seizures, tranquilizers, some pain relievers, and muscle relaxants.