Officinal

Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis) - the plant's botanical name suggests its pharmaceutical use

Officinal drugs, plants and herbs are those which are sold in a chemist or druggist shop. Officinal medical preparations of such drugs are made in accordance with the prescriptions authorized by a pharmacopoeia. Officinal is not related to the word official. The classical Latin officina meant a workshop, manufactory, laboratory, and in medieval Latin was applied to a general storeroom. It thus became applied to a shop where goods were sold rather than a place where things were made.[1] Whereas official descends from officium, meaning office, as in duty or position.

In botanical nomenclature, the specific epithet officinalis derives from a plant's historical use in pharmacology.

## See also

* Herbalism
* Officinalis

## References

1. ↑ Chisholm 1911, p. 22.

Attribution

* This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Officinal". Encyclopædia Britannica. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 22.

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