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  2. 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 .

  3. Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body

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    Modern Chinese medicinal zǐhéchē 紫河车 "dried human placenta" Li Shizhen's (1597) Bencao gangmu, the classic materia medica of traditional Chinese medicine , included 35 human drugs, including organs, bodily fluids, and excreta. Crude drugs derived from the human body were commonplace in the early history of medicine.

  4. List of drugs by year of discovery - Wikipedia

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    Over a hundred of the 224 drugs mentioned in the Huangdi Neijing – an early Chinese medical text – are herbs. [11] Herbs also commonly featured in the medicine of ancient India, where the principal treatment for diseases was diet. [12] A sample of raw opium. Opioids are among the world's oldest known drugs.

  5. Traditional Chinese medicine - Wikipedia

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    During British rule, Chinese medicine practitioners in Hong Kong were not recognized as "medical doctors", which means they could not issue prescription drugs, give injections, etc. However, TCM practitioners could register and operate TCM as "herbalists". [248] The Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong was established in 1999.

  6. Bencao Gangmu - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Category:Traditional Chinese medicine - Wikipedia

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    The Tale of Chinese Medicine; Tasly; Texas Health and Science University; Three Corpses; Three Legs Cooling Water; Three Treasures (traditional Chinese medicine) Sowa Rigpa (Traditional Tibetan medicine) Tiger bone wine; Tiger penis; Tiger penis soup; Tingyu Fang; Tong Ren Tang; Tongue diagnosis; Ch'ang Ming; Traditional Chinese medicines ...

  8. Macau - Wikipedia

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    Macau is located at the bottom-right of the region. Map of Macau. Macau is located on China's southern coast, 60 km (37 mi) west of Hong Kong, on the western side of the Pearl River estuary. It is surrounded by the South China Sea in the east and south, and neighbours the Guangdong city of Zhuhai to the west and north. [101]

  9. Lists of drugs - Wikipedia

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    This list categorises drugs alphabetically and also by other categorisations. This multi-page article lists pharmaceutical drugs alphabetically by name. Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed more than once.