''Yaoxing Lun'' (''Yao-hsing Lun''; ), literally ''Treatise on the Nature of Medicinal Herbs'', is a 7th-century
Tang Dynasty
The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...
Chinese treatise on
herbal medicine.
See also
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Chinese herbology
Chinese herbology () 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 t ...
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Compendium of Materia Medica''
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Pharmacognosy
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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 acti ...
References
Chinese medical texts
Tang dynasty literature
7th-century Chinese books
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