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Snake oil is the most widely known Chinese medicine in the west, due to extensive marketing in the west in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and wild claims of its efficacy to treat many maladies. [31] [32] Snake oil is a traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain by rubbing it on joints as a liniment. [31]
Modern Chinese medicinal zǐhéchē 紫河车 "dried human placenta" Li Shizhen's (1597) Bencao gangmu, the classic materia medica of traditional Chinese medicine , included 35 human drugs, including organs, bodily fluids, and excreta. Crude drugs derived from the human body were commonplace in the early history of medicine.
Cendol / ˈ tʃ ɛ n d ɒ l / is an iced sweet dessert that contains pandan-flavoured green rice flour jelly, [1] coconut milk, and palm sugar syrup. [2] It is popular in the Southeast Asian nations of Indonesia, [3] Malaysia, [4] Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, and Myanmar.
The 1997 English version consists of two volumes: [3]. Volume 1 (Herbal medicine), 1997, ISBN 7-5025-2062-7 Volume 2 (Western medicine), 1997, ISBN 7-5025-2063-5 The 1997 Chinese version (in simplified Chinese) also consists of two volumes, but the English and Chinese versions are not direct translations of each other, as they are sorted differently as is in the current edition.
The Bencao gangmu, known in English as the Compendium of Materia Medica or Great Pharmacopoeia, [1] is an encyclopedic gathering of medicine, natural history, and Chinese herbology compiled and edited by Li Shizhen and published in the late 16th century, during the Ming dynasty.
For over two millennia, texts in Chinese herbology and traditional Chinese medicine have recorded medicinal plants that are also hallucinogens and psychedelics.Some are familiar psychoactive plants in Western herbal medicine (e.g., Chinese: 莨菪; pinyin: làngdàng, i.e. Hyoscyamus niger), but several Chinese plants have not been noted as hallucinogens in modern works (e.g.,Chinese: 雲實 ...
Chinese patent medicine (中成藥; 中成药; zhōngchéng yào) is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. They are standardized herbal formulas. From ancient times, pills were formed by combining several herbs and other ingredients, which were dried and ground into a powder. They were then mixed with a binder and formed into pills by hand.
Pages in category "Plants used in traditional Chinese medicine" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 202 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page) *