domestic remedy

domestic remedy
An herb or other plant having, or believed to have medicinal value. The expression frequently occurs in statutes regulating the practice of medicine, and as there used the words refer to the administration of medicine in the family or in the household, without the aid of a physician. State v Huff, 75 Kan 585, 90 P 279.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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