Offical
As officinal (medicinally, even offizinal ; of . Lat officina: delivery room, preparation room, workshop, factory) are drugs and - plant or certain parts or preparations thereof and designated manufacturing and testing methods, by a monograph of a currently valid pharmacopoeia (eg B. the European , German (DAB) or Austrian (ÖAB) pharmacopoeia) are characterized.
Offizin is an old German expression for the laboratory of a pharmacy that is still used today for the sales room of a public pharmacy.
Numerous botanical plant names have the specific epithet "officinalis", which refers to the use of the plant or important parts for the manufacture of medicines or cosmetics. Examples include a. the real sage (Salvia officinalis), the lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), the True Marshmallow (Althea officinalis), of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), the Real vervain (Verbena officinalis), the marigold (Calendula officinalis) or the real prize ( Veronica officinalis).
The form of officinalis for neutral nouns in the nominative is “officinale”, as it is e.g. B. in the lovage (Levistikum officinale), in the real comfrey (Symphytum officinale), in the ginger (Zingiber officinale), in the real watercress (Nasturtium officinale) or in the real jasmine (Jasminum officinale) is used as an epithet.
A botanical work that has this term in the title is “Plantae officinales [alternatively also: medicinales] or, Collection of officinal plants” by Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck from the years 1821–1833.
