relating to or made from herbs, especially plants used for medicine, cooking, or healing.
From Latin 'herba' (grass, herb) plus suffix '-al' (relating to). Herbs have been valued since ancient times across all cultures.
Herbal remedies are having a renaissance partly because they're 'natural,' but herbal is just a category—arsenic is herbal too. The word's positive associations come from history, not chemistry.
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