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  2. List of herbs with known adverse effects - Wikipedia

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    Chinese herbal mixtures: Heavy metal poisoning [5] Coltsfoot: coughwort, farfarae folium leaf, foalswort [4] Tussilago farfara: Liver damage, cancer [4] Comfrey: comphrey, blackwort, common comfrey, slippery root [4] Symphytum officinale: Liver damage, [4] [5] cancer [4] Country mallow: heartleaf, silky white mallow Sida cordifolia

  3. Chinese alchemical elixir poisoning - Wikipedia

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    In Chinese history, the alchemical practice of concocting elixirs of immortality from metallic and mineral substances began circa the 4th century BCE in the late Warring states period, reached a peak in the 9th century CE Tang dynasty when five emperors died, and, despite common knowledge of the dangers, elixir poisoning continued until the 18th century Qing dynasty.

  4. Chinese herbology - Wikipedia

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    Chinese herbology (traditional Chinese: 中藥學; simplified Chinese: 中药学; pinyin: zhōngyào xué) is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

  5. 4 Essential Chinese Herbs For Longevity, According to TCM ...

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    “From the beginning of Chinese medical history, anti-aging and how to maintain health and wellness was paramount,” says Mao Shing Ni, DOM, PhD, LAc, doctor of Chinese medicine and chief ...

  6. List of poisonous plants - Wikipedia

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    The plant contains chemicals that are toxic to animals including humans, but it has also been used as a medicine. All parts of the plant contain protoanemonin , which can cause severe skin and gastrointestinal irritation, bitter taste and burning in the mouth and throat, mouth ulcers, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and hematemesis .

  7. Ephedra (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    In Zoroastrianism, the drink is called haoma and has similar uses. Just like in Hinduism, the drink was related to immortality and long life. Haoma was the first thing newborns drank. This assured the child would be healthy and live a long life. [46] The drink was also administered to people close to death to revive them back into good health. [46]

  8. Hallucinogenic plants in Chinese herbals - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. List of traditional Chinese medicines - Wikipedia

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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]