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It has been used as a Chinese traditional medicine for the treatment of meningitis, bacillary dysentery, pneumonia, tuberculosis, tumours, jaundice and liver cirrhosis. [6] [7] Used orally to treat abdominal pain, diarrhea, gastroenteritis and urinary tract infections. Phellodendron amurense may protect cartilage against osteoarthritis ...
Chinese herbal mixtures: Heavy metal poisoning [5] Coltsfoot: coughwort, farfarae folium leaf, foalswort [4] Tussilago farfara: Liver damage, cancer [4] Comfrey: comphrey, blackwort, common comfrey, slippery root [4] Symphytum officinale: Liver damage, [4] [5] cancer [4] Country mallow: heartleaf, silky white mallow Sida cordifolia
It is currently used for symptoms associated with cold and flu. [56] Echinopsis pachanoi: San Pedro cactus: The San Pedro cactus contains the entheogen mescaline and has a long history of being used in Andean traditional medicine. [57] Ephedra sinica: Ephedra: It has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for more than 2,000 years.
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]
Chinese herbology (traditional Chinese: 中藥學; simplified Chinese: 中药学; pinyin: zhōngyào xué) is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
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. In 1976, 82 kampo medicines were approved by the Ministry of Health, Labour and ...
A. Aconitum carmichaelii; Acorus gramineus; Actinidia chinensis; Actinidia polygama; Aeginetia indica; Agastache rugosa; Aglaomorpha fortunei; Ajwain; Akebia ...
The roots of C. pilosula are used in traditional Chinese medicine. They are carrot-shaped or cylindrical, sometimes branched, and up to 30 cm (12 in) long by 3 cm (1.2 in) wide. [ 1 ] They are a constituent of Radix Codonopsis, a mixture used in herbal medicine.