# Officinal

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{{Short description|Drugs and plants sold in a pharmacy}}
[[Image:Pulmonaria officinalis 800.jpg|thumb|[Lungwort](/source/Lungwort) (''Pulmonaria officinalis'') - the plant's botanical name suggests its pharmaceutical use]]

'''Officinal''' [drugs](/source/medication), [plant](/source/plant)s and [herb](/source/herb)s are those which are sold in a [chemist](/source/chemist) or [druggist](/source/druggist) shop. Officinal medical preparations of such drugs are made in accordance with the [prescriptions](/source/medical_prescription) authorized by a [pharmacopoeia](/source/pharmacopoeia). ''Officinal'' is not to be mixed with the word ''official''. The [classical Latin](/source/classical_Latin) ''officina'' meant a [workshop](/source/workshop), manufactory, [laboratory](/source/laboratory), and in [medieval Latin](/source/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.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=22}} Whereas official descends from officium, meaning office, as in duty or position.

In [botanical nomenclature](/source/botanical_nomenclature), the [specific epithet](/source/specific_name_(botany)) ''officinalis'' derives from a plant's historical use in [pharmacology](/source/pharmacology).

==See also==
*[Herbalism](/source/Herbalism)
*[Officinalis](/source/Officinalis)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

;Attribution
*{{1911|wstitle=Officinal |volume=20 |page=22}}

Category:Herbalism
Category:Pharmacopoeias

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