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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 ...
Huáng bǎi (黃 栢 or 黃 柏, literally "yellow cypress"), huáng bó (黃 柏) or huáng bò (黃 檗) is one of the fifty fundamental herbs of traditional Chinese medicine. Known also as Cortex Phellodendri , it is the bark of one of two species of Phellodendron tree: Phellodendron amurense or Phellodendron chinense .
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]
Insulin resistance without treatment with lifestyle changes or medications may lead to conditions such as: Prediabetes. ... With a sibling, parent, or children with type 2 diabetes.
A root of cultivated Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng). Ginseng (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ n s ɛ ŋ /) [1] is the root [a] of plants in the genus Panax, such as South China ginseng (P. notoginseng), Korean ginseng (P. ginseng), and American ginseng (P. quinquefolius), characterized by the presence of ginsenosides and gintonin.
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.
Artemisia argyi, commonly known as silvery wormwood [1] or Chinese mugwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant with a creeping rhizome. It is native to China , Korea , Mongolia , Japan , and the Russian Far East ( Amur Oblast , Primorye ).
A woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than 3 months after receiving an injection of a stem-cell derived treatment. She remained free from insulin injections 1 year ...