The classification and application of toxic Chinese Materia Medica

Many important drugs in the Chinese materia medica (CMM) are known to be toxic, and it has long been recognized in classical Chinese medical theory that toxicity can arise directly from the components of a single CMM or may be induced by an interaction between combined CMM. Traditional Chinese Medicine presents a unique set of pharmaceutical theories that include particular methods for processing, combining and decocting, and these techniques contribute to reducing toxicity as well as enhancing efficacy. The current classification of toxic CMM drugs, traditional methods for processing toxic CMM and the prohibited use of certain combinations, is based on traditional experience and ancient texts and monographs, but accumulating evidence increasingly supports their use to eliminate or reduce toxicity. Modern methods are now being used to evaluate the safety of CMM; however, a new system for describing the toxicity of Chinese herbal medicines may need to be established to take into account those herbs whose toxicity is delayed or otherwise hidden, and which have not been incorporated into the traditional classification. This review explains the existing classification and justifies it where appropriate, using experimental results often originally published in Chinese and previously not available outside China.

Materia medica pura.

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Homœopathic domestic physician : containing the treatment of diseases :with popular explanations of anatomy, physiology, hygiene, and hydropathy : also an abridged materia medica /

At head of title: Enlarged and illustrated edition.

The materia medica of the Hindus; with a glossary of Indian plants of George King.

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The American vegetable practice, or, A new and improved guide to health. : Designed for the use of families. : In six parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infants. /

Errata and advertisement for "New England Depot. D.L. Hale" at end of v. 2.

Bulletin of the Lloyd Library of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica.

Description based on surrogate of: No. 2, published in 1901.

Veterinary materia medica for farmers /

"New series" vol. III, no. 8.

Veterinary materia medica for farmers.

"New series" vol. III, no. 10.

Bulletin of the Lloyd Library and Museum of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica.

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Materia medica antiqua [et] nova repurgata et ilustrata, sive De medicamentorum simplicium officinalium facultatibus tractatus /

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Observations on the effects of various articles of the materia medica, in the cure of lues venerea, illustrated with cases /

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