Traditional Chinese materia medica--a retrospect and prospect.
For thousands of years, traditional medicine and remedies have been practiced and used in the fight against disease in China. They have proved to be valuable and the distillate of vast historical experience based on field-tested human experiments, long-term observations and clinical trials. The Chinese people believe that traditional medicine is consistent with their own culture. Endowed with a unique theoretical system and provided outstanding clinical results, traditional Chinese medicine continues to play an important role in helping the Chinese nation flourish.
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Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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