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Chinese classic herbal formulas (simplified Chinese: 经方; traditional Chinese: 經 方) are combinations of herbs used in Chinese herbology for supposed greater efficiency in comparison to individual herbs. They are the basic herbal formulas that students of Traditional Chinese medicine learn. Later these students will adapt these classic ...
The idea of a bencao (pharmacopoeia) that would copy and expand on Tao Hongjing's Bencao jing jizhu [] was first mooted in 657 by court counsellor Su Jing [] (蘇敬). [9] [2] The project was eventually approved by Emperor Gaozong, following which a team of some twenty-two officials and physicians, [10] including Xu Jingzong, Lü Cai, Li Chunfeng, Kong Zhiyue [], and Xu Xiaochong []. [11]
A 2016 Cochrane review found "insufficient evidence that Chinese Herbal Medicines were any more or less effective than placebo or hormonal therapy" for the relief of menopause related symptoms. [48] A 2012 Cochrane review found no difference in decreased mortality for SARS patients when Chinese herbs were used alongside Western medicine versus ...
Many systematic reviews of TCM interventions published in Chinese journals are incomplete, some contained errors or were misleading. [173] The herbs recommended by traditional Chinese practitioners in the US are unregulated. [174] A 2013 review found the data too weak to support use of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) for benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Horse ointment, known as horse oil and horse fat, is a topical formulation derived from subcutaneous fat of horses. [1] Due to its thickness and viscosity , horse ointment is intended for topical use on human skin and mucous membranes to moisturize and increase the restoration of damaged skin.
Shennong Bencaojing (also Classic of the Materia Medica or Shen-nong's Herbal Classics [1] and Shen-nung Pen-tsao Ching; Chinese: 神農本草經) is a Chinese book on agriculture and medicinal plants, traditionally attributed to Shennong. Researchers believe the text is a compilation of oral traditions, written between the first and second ...
Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang (simplified Chinese: 补中益气汤; traditional Chinese: 補中益氣湯; pinyin: bǔ zhōng yì qì wán) is a Chinese classic herbal formula. In Japanese kampo, it is known as "Hochū-ekki-tō" (補中益気湯 ほちゅうえっきとう) (it is also known as Kampo #41). It is commonly made into Chinese patent medicine.
Cāng zhú (苍 术 or 蒼 术 or 蒼 朮), also known as black atractylodes rhizome or Rhizoma Atractylodes, is a Chinese herbal medicine. It is the dried rhizome of Atractylodes lancea (Thunb.) DC., synonyms Atractylodes chinensis (DC.)