phytoequivalence

Meaning

Noun

• A physiological equivalence between the effects of two herbal extracts, the efficacy of one of which has been clinically demonstrated.

Origin

• phyto- + equivalence. Calque of the German Phytoäquivalenz, a term of the same meaning which was introduced by the German Commission E, an expert commission on herbal medicine, in the 1980s.