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The following is a list of traditional Chinese medicines. There are roughly 13,000 medicinals used in China and over 100,000 medicinal prescriptions recorded in the ancient literature. [ 1 ] Plant elements and extracts are the most common elements used in medicines. [ 2 ]
The physician William C. Cooper and the sinologist Nathan Sivin [6] chose what the Chinese call rényào 人藥 "human drugs" as a pilot experiment sample for pharmacologically analyzing the efficacy of drugs used in TCM. In contrast to many traditional Chinese plant, animal, and mineral pharmaceuticals with uncertain active constituents, the ...
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. A large share of its claims are pseudoscientific, with the majority of treatments having no robust evidence of effectiveness or logical mechanism of action. [1] [2]
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia.
Alicia Maree Malone (born 4 September 1981) is an Australian–American author and television host for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). [2] [3] Born in Canberra, Malone became a cinephile of classic Hollywood films at a young age. After graduating from Canberra Girls Grammar School, she moved to Sydney intending to work in television.
But TCM's new owner decimated its top staff, prompting cinephiles and historians to lament its passing. Column: How profit-driven turmoil at Turner Classic Movies placed a vast cultural heritage ...
TCM Movies (formerly TNT and Turner Classic Movies) was a British pay television channel, focussing mostly on classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. film libraries, which included many MGM titles, along with movie-related profiles and some classic American television series.
Chinese patent medicine (CPM, simplified Chinese: 科学中 药; traditional Chinese: 科學中 藥; pinyin: kēxúe zhōngyào; lit. 'scientific Chinese medicine' or simplified Chinese: 中成药; traditional Chinese: 中成藥; pinyin: zhōngchéngyào; lit. 'pre-made Chinese medicine') [a] are herbal medicines in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), modernized into a ready-to-use form such ...