Officinal is a word applied in medicine to plants and herbs
that are used in medicinal preparations. For most of the 19th century,
it was the standard word used by the United States Pharmacopeia to refer
to the drugs, chemicals, and medicinal preparations that they
recognized, but by the 1870s it was replaced by
official in this context. Despite this supersession, you still can find a healthy dose of
officinal
in the pharmaceutical field, where it is used today as a word
describing preparations that are regularly kept in stock at pharmacies.
Officinal was derived from the Medieval Latin noun
officina, a word for the storeroom of a monastery in which provisions and medicines were kept. In Latin,
officina means "workshop."
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