medicinal plant

plants or derivatives used to treat medical conditions in humans or animals

Class type of: herb, useful plant, plant Q188840

Facts

7 properties

Instance of: plant life-form
Subclass of: herb, useful plant, plant
Has use: traditional medicine, Ayurveda, herbalism^[5]^[6]^[7]
Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), De materia medica^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]
Has part(s) of the class: medication^[14]
P14541: ASjgB^[15]
Said to be the same as: French medicinal plants^[8]

🏷️ Also known as

en medicinal plant en medicinal herbs en medicinal herb en medicinal plants en plants, medicinal en drug plant ar نباتات طبية cs léčivá rostlina cs Léčivka cs Léčivé rostliny cs Léčivé byliny cs Léčivá bylina da Lægeplante de Heilpflanzen de Medizinpflanze de Heilkräuter de Heilpflanze de Heilkraut de Drogenpflanze de Arzneikraut

🔖 Identifiers · 49

Library of Congress authority ID: sh85083063
GND ID: 4024076-9
OpenAlex ID: C2779158651, C2991655182
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID: 294925104
BBC Things ID: 0597682e-4d3e-4148-b723-46077ff09bff
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 12655
Banglapedia ID (Bengali): ঔষধি_লতাগুল্ম
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 11933149t
Biblissima authority ID: Peter Hagendorf
Dewey Decimal Classification: 615.321
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID: 289274
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: science/medicinal-plant

Show all 49 identifiers +37

Encyclopædia Universalis ID: plantes-medicinales
EuroVoc ID: 2950
Freebase ID: /m/0qftfnw
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID: herba-medicinal
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme): 0153459
Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID: 10268
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017): 2138113
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID: lekarstvennye-rasteniia-2c2047
HDS ID: 026235
Harper's tag: medicinal-plants
Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID: M\E\Medicinalplants
JSTOR topic ID (archived): medicinal-plants
KBpedia ID: MedicinalPlant
LEM ID: LEM201012235
Library of Congress Classification: SB293-SB295
MeSH descriptor ID: D010946
MeSH tree code: B01.650.560
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2779158651
Museum-digital tag ID: 38912, 96767
NALT ID: 10175
NDL Authority ID: 00574210
NL CR AUT ID: ph115198
Namuwiki ID: E0035370
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007560493105171
National Library of Latvia ID: 000092177
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning: 2304
PACTOLS thesaurus ID: pcrtS6BRsTOPnY
PSH ID: 13320
SVKKL authority ID: h0002333-lecive-rostliny
Store medisinske leksikon ID: medisinplanter
Topic's main category: Category:Medicinal plants
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID: piante-medicinali
UNESCO Thesaurus ID: concept8551
Vikidia article ID: es:Planta_medicinal
YSO ID: 14478
Yale LUX ID: concept/f658e7c4-5cbd-41f8-a982-79843fe91116
Zhihu topic ID: 19688418

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🔗 Connections

← Has use 4944

maize, tomato, onion, potato, Allium sativum, Citrus × limon, Cucumis sativus, watermelon +4936 more

Examples 23

Quercus robur, Populus nigra, Morus alba, Quercus ilex, Melia azedarach, Malus sylvestris, Cupressus sempervirens, Plantanus orientalis +15 more

Subtypes 8

common sunflower, Artocarpus heterophyllus, Theobroma cacao, Azadirachta indica, yerba mate, Matteuccia struthiopteris, silphium, medicinal mushrooms

← Field of work 6

Ernst Günther Schenck, Charles Frederick Millspaugh, Maria Treben, Vernon Heywood, Andreas Cleyer, Johann Bohadsch

Has use 3

Ayurveda, traditional medicine, herbalism

Subclass of 3

medication, herb, useful plant

← Main subject 2

De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, De virtutibus herbarum

Described by source 1

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Named after 1

Medicago sativa

Part of 1

potion

Topic's main category 1

Category:Medicinal plants

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Medicinal plants

← Depicts 1

Madonna d'Orleans

← Genre 1

Köhler's Medicinal Plants

← Is a list of 1

list of plants used as medicine

← Possible treatment 1

insomnia

← Product or material produced 1

hydroponics

← Uses 1

herbalism

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Summary

medicinal plant is a plant life-form^[1]. It is a type of herb^[2], useful plant^[3], and plant^[4].

Body

Influence

Things named for medicinal plant include Medicago sativa^[16], a taxon^[17].

Why It Matters

Entities named for medicinal plant include Medicago sativa^[16], a taxon^[17].

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BibTeX

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

4w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Subclass of → herb, useful plant, plant

Sitelink count → 79

Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'as', 'ast', 'ay', 'az', 'ba', 'ban', 'bat_smg', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs',

Claims rich → —

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Subclass of: plant, import w/ [[Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd|🧙 Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata]]"
7w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890) +2

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Described by source: De materia medica, import w/ [[Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd|🧙 Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata]]"
13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → medicinal-plants

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: medicinal-plants, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289948267|medicinal plants (#289948267)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Biblissima authority ID → Peter Hagendorf

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q321852, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Part of → —

Subclass of → herb, useful plant, plant

Has part(s) of the class → medication

P14541 → ASjgB

"/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
19w ago · AHIOH · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Instance of → plant life-form

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: plant life-form"
20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗

SVKKL authority ID → h0002333-lecive-rostliny

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0002333-lecive-rostliny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
25w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Part of → —

Topic's main category → Category:Medicinal plants

Part of → —

Subclass of → —

+ 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||min, ro */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"

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