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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]
The plant is used in folk medicine, typically as a herbal tea, but may be used as an alcohol extract or in dietary supplements. [1] It has not seen widespread use in traditional Chinese medicine, being adopted only in the past 20 years, [1] and grows mainly in Guizhou province. [1]
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]
Chinese classic herbal formulas form the basis of Chinese patent medicine. These are the basic herbal formulas that students of traditional Chinese medicine learn. Many of these formulas are quite old. For example, "Liu Wei Di Huang Wan" (六味地黄丸 liù wèi dì huáng wán) was developed by Qian Yi (钱乙 Qián Yǐ) (c. 1032–1113 CE).
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.
Qingdai (青黛) or Qing Dai, a traditional Chinese medicine, is derived from dried leaves and stems of Baphicacanthus cusia (Nees) Bremek., Polygonum tinctorium Ait., or Isatis indigotica Fortune (Fort.). Qingdai was first recorded in Yaoxinglun.
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The medicine, developed by Qu Huangzhang in 1902, is designated as one of two Class-1 protected traditional Chinese medicines, which gives it 20 years of trade protection in China. [4] Yunnan Baiyao products are manufactured and distributed by a state-owned enterprise , Yunnan Baiyao Group ( SZSE : 000538 ) in Yunnan , China.