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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] Medicine in traditional China encompassed a range of sometimes ...
Jingui Yaolüe (simplified Chinese: 金匮要略; traditional Chinese: 金匱要略; pinyin: Jīnguì Yàolüè), Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet is a classic clinical book of traditional Chinese medicine written by Zhang Zhongjing (150-219) at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty and was first published in the Northern Song ...
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). A Nature editorial described TCM as "fraught with pseudoscience ", and said that the most obvious ...
Snake oil. 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. [32][33] Snake oil is a traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain by rubbing it on joints as a liniment.
Hua Tuo (c. 140–208), courtesy name Yuanhua, was a Chinese physician who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty. [1] Historical texts, such as Records of the Three Kingdoms and Book of the Later Han record Hua Tuo as having been the first person in China to use anaesthesia during surgery.
Shennong Bencaojing (also Classic of the Materia Medica or Shen-nong's Herbal Classics [1] and Shen-nung Pen-tsao Ching; traditional Chinese: 神農本草經; simplified Chinese: 神农本草经; pinyin: Shénnóng Běncǎo Jīng; Wade–Giles: Shen 2-nung 2 Pen 3-ts'ao 3 Ching 1) is a Chinese book on agriculture and medicinal plants, traditionally attributed to Shennong.
Cough and cold medicine, cough syrup, lin, lean. [edit on Wikidata] Cold medicines are a group of medications taken individually or in combination as a treatment for the symptoms of the common cold and similar conditions of the upper respiratory tract. The term encompasses a broad array of drugs, including analgesics, antihistamines and ...
Release. 20 May. (2016-05-20) –. 24 June 2016. (2016-06-24) The Tale of Chinese Medicine (Chinese: 本草中国; pinyin: Béncǎo Zhōngguó is a Chinese documentary television series on the culture and history of traditional Chinese medicine directed by Gan Chao (干超) and Zheng Bo (郑波). [1] It first aired on May 20, 2016, on Jiangsu ...