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Ganoderma Sinense
''Ganoderma sinense'' is a black to purplish-black or dark brown laccate species of ''Ganoderma'' found in China, Japan and Taiwan growing on decaying wood of broad-leaved trees and pine stumps. It is used in traditional Asian medicine, where it is known as zizhi (紫芝, purple Ganoderma) in Chinese. Taxonomy ''Ganoderma sinense'' was erected as a species in 1979 by J.D. Zhao, L.W. Hsu, and X.Q. Zhang, distinguishing it from ''Ganoderma dimidiatum'' (formerly ''Ganoderma japonicum'') by morphology. One recent genetic study of two dozen samples collected in China and identified as ''G. sinense'' and ''G. japonicum'' by morphology showed all samples were the same species, ''G. sinense''. The 20 of these identified as ''G. sinense'' showed a high variance in morphological features. Other studies have suggested that ''G. sinense'' and ''G. japonicum'' are the same species, based on their high sequence similarity in ITS data. However, because DNA samples collected in Japan under ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganoderma
''Ganoderma'' is a genus of polypore fungi in the family Ganodermataceae that includes about 80 species, many from tropical regions. They have a high genetic diversity and are used in traditional Asian medicines. ''Ganoderma'' can be differentiated from other polypores because they have a double-walled basidiospore. They may be called ''shelf mushrooms'' or bracket fungi. Etymology The name ''Ganoderma'' is derived from the Greek ''ganos''/γάνος "brightness, sheen", hence "shining" and ''derma''/δέρμα "skin". History The genus ''Ganoderma'' was established as a genus in 1881 by Karsten and included only one species, ''G. lucidum'' (Curtis) Karst. Previously, this taxon was characterized as ''Boletus lucidus'' Curtis (1781) and then ''Polyporus lucidus'' (Curtis) Fr. (1821) (Karsten 1881). The species ''P. lucidus'' was characterized by having a laccate (shiny or polished) pileus and stipe, and this is a character that Murrill suspected was the reason for Karsten's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", with the majority of its treatments having no logical mechanism of action. Medicine in traditional China encompassed a range of sometimes competing health and healing practices, folk beliefs, literati theory and Confucian philosophy, herbal remedies, food, diet, exercise, medical specializations, and schools of thought. In the early twentieth century, Chinese cultural and political modernizers worked to eliminate traditional practices as backward and unscientific. Traditional practitioners then selected elements of philosophy and practice and organized them into what they called "Chinese medicine" (''Zhongyi''). In the 1950s, the Chinese government sponsored the integration of Chinese and Western medicine, and in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, promoted Chinese medicine as inexpensive a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shennong Ben Cao Jing
''Shennong Bencaojing'' (also ''Classic of the Materia Medica'' or ''Shen-nong's Herbal Classics'' and ''Shen-nung Pen-tsao Ching''; ) is a Chinese book on agriculture and medicinal plants, traditionally attributed to Shennong. Researchers believe the text is a compilation of oral traditions, written between about 206 BC and 220 AD.Traditional uses, chemical components and pharmacological activities of the genus Ganoderma P. Karst.: a review / ''Li Wang, Jie-qing Li, Ji Zhang, Zhi-min Li, Hong-gao Liu, Yuan-zhong Wang'' // : Issue 69, 2020. — p. 42087 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tang Shenwei
Tang Shenwei (; c.1056-1093), courtesy name Shenyuan (), was a Chinese physician of the Song Dynasty. He compiled an influential pharmacopoeia, ''Zhenglei bencao'' (證類本草). Career Tang Shenwei was born in a family of professional physicians from Jinyuan (晉原; in today's Chongzhou, Sichuan). During the Yuanyou era (元祐; 1086–1094) of Emperor Zhezong's reign, he became a disciple of and moved to Huayang near Chengdu. ''Zhenglei bencao'' Tang spent several years on studying books on pharmaceuticals to create his own compendium. He merged the entirety of some existing works and added information researched on his own to the compilation. The book was ready about 1082–1083. Its full title, ''Jingshi zhenglei beiji bencao'' ( zh, t=經史證類備急本草, s=经史证类备急本草, first=t) translates as "Ready-to-use pharmacopoeia, classified as collected from the Classics and historiographical books". The compendium encompassed 1,748 different drugs (476 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
