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 ...

First designated as a top-grade medicinal plant in Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic, the 16 th century Compendium of Materia Medica described its use for tackling a wide range of blood disorders in women.

Scientist in the United States on Sunday offered a molecular-level explanation for how a Chinese herbal medicine used for more than 2,000 years tackles fever and eases malaria.

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.

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

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 ...

Here we'll take a look at five traditional Chinese herbs that have been used for centuries to help hair grow and prevent hair ...

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 ...

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 ...