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Chinese Medical Herbology and Pharmacology is a textbook on Chinese herbology by John and Tina Chen. It includes descriptions and illustrations of traditional use of Chinese herbs, and also covers their historical usage.
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. Its first draft was completed in 1578 and printed in Nanjing in 1596.
Chinese herbology is a pseudoscientific practice with potentially unreliable product quality, safety hazards or misleading health advice. [65] [66] [67] There are regulatory bodies, such as China GMP (Good Manufacturing Process) of herbal products. [68]
Li Shizhen (July 3, 1518 – 1593), courtesy name Dongbi, was a Chinese acupuncturist, herbalist, naturalist, pharmacologist, physician, and writer of the Ming dynasty.He is the author of a 27-year work, the Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu; Chinese: 本草綱目).
Kampō (or Kanpō, 漢方) medicine is the Japanese study and adaptation of traditional Chinese medicine.In 1967, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approved four kampo medicines for reimbursement under the National Health Insurance (NHI) program.
Chinese herbology – theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine . Culinary herbs and spices – This list is not for plants used primarily as herbal teas or tisanes, nor for plant products that are purely medicinal, such as valerian.
Gladstar is the author of several books as listed below. She has taught herbs extensively throughout the U.S. and speaks widely at herbal conferences including the Southwest Conference, Medicines from the Earth, the Green Nations Gathering and Breitenbush. [13] She also leads herbal travel adventures in various parts of the world.
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