Therapeutic Terms

Volatile	evaporates quickly and easily from a liquid (e.g. essential oil) into a vapor gas
Vasoconstrictive	contracting blood vessels, raising blood pressure; hypertensor
Vasodilatory	enlarging blood vessels, reducing blood pressure; hypotensor
Vermifuge	expelling intestinal worms; anthelmintic
Vesicant	producing skin blisters (therapeutically to induce counter-irritant serum)
Veridical	having the capacity to or tending to destroy or inactivate viruses
Vulnerary	useful in healing wounds