Chinese herbology is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine .
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10 Facts About Chinese herbology
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Term Chinese herbology is misleading in the sense that, while plant elements are by far the most commonly used substances, animal, human, and mineral products are utilized, among which some are poisonous.
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Chinese herbology allegedly tasted hundreds of herbs and imparted his knowledge of medicinal and poisonous plants to farmers.
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Use of Chinese herbology herbs was popular during the medieval age in western Asian and Islamic countries.
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Furthermore, the classic materia medica Bencao Gangmu describes the use of 35 traditional Chinese herbology medicines derived from the human body, including bones, fingernail, hairs, dandruff, earwax, impurities on the teeth, feces, urine, sweat, and organs, but most are no longer in use.
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Chinese herbology patent medicine is a kind of traditional Chinese herbology medicine.
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Since TCM has become more popular in the Western world, there are increasing concerns about the potential toxicity of many traditional Chinese herbology medicinals including plants, animal parts and minerals.
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Chinese herbology is largely pseudoscience, with no valid mechanism of action for the majority of its treatments.
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Chinese herbology is a pseudoscientific practice with potentially unreliable product quality, safety hazards or misleading health advice.
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In Chinese herbology, there are 50 "fundamental" herbs, as given in the reference text, although these herbs are not universally recognized as such in other texts.
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