As early as the Qin and Han Dynasty (roughly 221 BCE to 220 CE), Sheng Nong’s Herbal Classic recorded 365 medicines. By the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), the number of Chinese herbal ...

E-commerce workers sort herbal plant Codonopsis pilosula, known as dangshen in Chinese, in Minxian county, Gansu province, earlier this month. WU XIAOHUI/CHINA DAILY While villagers from Minxian ...

Chinese herbal medicines contain ingredients derived from endangered animals, toxic plants and livestock, a genetic audit has discovered. Few of these ingredients were listed on the packaging ...

LANZHOU -- A Chinese research team has uncovered a pivotal regulatory role played by climatic factors in the relationship between shrub encroachment and herbal plant diseases.

Herbal supplements, despite their perceived natural safety, pose significant risks to liver and kidney health due to ...

What’s in traditional Chinese herbal medicine, ... Weng’s lab at MIT is among those trying to untangle the medicinal secrets of herbal TCM by linking plants and their metabolites to the ...

Saving medicinal plants improves lives of Chinese villagers. Posted on agosto, 13 2010. As the weather cools down and fall arrives, Schisandra fruits growing on the mountains are gradually turning red ...

A team of researchers from Toho University has uncovered a potential new use for a naturally occurring compound, schisandrin ...

News; UK News; Mental health; Herbal medicine student took her own life after eating highly poisonous plants The 33-year-old had studied Chinese herbal medicine at university before setting up her ...

Herbal medicine uses plants, or mixtures of plant extracts, ... Chang-wei-qing, a Chinese herbal formula, ameliorates colitis-associated tumour development via inhibiting NF-κB and STAT3 signalling ...

In Singapore, the Singapore Food Agency has a comprehensive list of 148 mostly plant-based Chinese medicinal materials commonly used in food.

Even during the Chinese New Year period, traditional Chinese medicinal ingredients are typically included in home-cooked reunion meals and CNY gatherings – whether at home or at restaurants.