Chinese herbology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-10

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Chinese herbology


00:01:14 1 History
00:05:34 2 Raw materials
00:06:41 3 Preparation
00:06:50 3.1 Decoction
00:07:24 3.2 Chinese patent medicine
00:09:10 3.3 Chinese herbal extracts
00:09:40 4 Categorization
00:10:15 4.1 Four Natures
00:10:37 4.2 Five Flavors
00:11:34 4.3 Specific function
00:12:54 5 Nomenclature
00:13:27 5.1 Color
00:13:58 5.2 Smell and taste
00:14:25 5.3 Geographic location
00:15:06 5.4 Function
00:15:30 5.5 Country of origin
00:16:04 6 Toxicity
00:19:24 7 Efficacy
00:21:32 8 Ecological impacts
00:23:17 9 Herbs in use
00:24:55 9.1 Chinese ginseng
00:25:55 9.2 American ginseng
00:26:32 9.3 Siberian ginseng
00:26:54 9.4 Ginkgo
00:27:02 9.5 Mushrooms
00:27:17 9.6 Wolfberry
00:27:58 9.7 Dang Gui
00:28:34 9.8 Astragalus
00:29:04 9.9 Atractylodes
00:29:31 9.10 Bupleurum
00:29:58 9.11 Cinnamon
00:30:48 9.12 iCoptis chinensis/i
00:31:21 9.13 Ginger
00:32:19 9.14 Licorice
00:32:48 9.15 Ephedra
00:33:16 9.16 Peony
00:34:06 9.17 iRehmannia/i
00:34:56 9.18 Rhubarb
00:35:30 9.19 Salvia
00:36:00 10 50 fundamental herbs
00:36:22 11 Other Chinese herbs



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Chinese herbology (simplified Chinese: 中药学; traditional Chinese: 中藥學; pinyin: zhōngyào xué) is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). A Nature editorial described TCM as "fraught with pseudoscience", and said that the most obvious reason why it has not delivered many cures is that the majority of its treatments have no logical mechanism of action.The term herbology is misleading in the sense that, while plant elements are by far the most commonly used substances, animal, human, and mineral products are also utilized, among which some are poisonous. In the Neijing they are referred to as 毒藥 [duyao] which means toxin, poison, or medicine. Unschuld points out that this is similar etymology to the Greek pharmakon and so he uses the term "pharmaceutic". Thus, the term "medicinal" (instead of herb) is usually preferred as a translation for 药 (pinyin: yào).Research into the effectiveness of traditional Chinese herbal therapy is of poor quality and often tainted by bias, with little or no rigorous evidence of efficacy. There are concerns over a number of potentially toxic Chinese herbs.