The author introduced materia medica with hypoglycemia effects in diabetes mellitus including Astragalus, Coptis, Polygonatum, Trigonella foenum - graecum, Scrophularia ningpoensis Hemsl, Xanthium strumarium L. or X.sibiricum, Lycium barbarum L. and L.chinense Mill., Agrimonia pilosa Ledela, Pumica gramatum L., Ephedra, Ophiopogon japonicus thunb Ker gawl, Momordica charantia L., Zea mays L., Acanthopanax, Schisandra, Arctium lappa, Panax ginseng C.A, Psidium guyava L., Capsicum frutescens L., Stephania tetrandra s. Moore, Aconitum, Poria cocos (Schw.) Wolf, Panax quinquefolium L., Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi, Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn., Cornus officinalis Sieb. Et Zucc., Gecko
Materia medica

Studied subjects: dried extract of Asiatic Pennywort Herb - Tumeric, 1kg dried extracts is equivalent 42.5kg fresh materia medica (25kg Centella asiatica and 17.5kg Curcuma longa); The compared compositions contained: content of curcumin 95%, content of asiaticosid 90%. The study provided quality specifications as follows: appearance, loss on drying, the solubility in water and in alcohol, the water-insoluble teside, heavy metals limit, pH, ash, fungus, mould, and microbial limit; phosphorus pesticide residues, qualitative and quantitative determination of triterpene ester glycosides and curcuminoids
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Curcumin ; Materia Medica

The increasing drug prices had some impacts on the society and becoming a question need to be solved. Vietnamese Association of Materia Medica had established the study group to find out some solutions on stabilizing drug prices and submit to the Goverment and the Ministry of Health, in order to find out measures for solving the drug price, stabilizing and developing the Pharmacy, in general and especially the Materia Medica. The contents of the solutions concluded: Secure priority drugs; Promote propaganda to increase knowledge of the people on drugs; Stimulate the inter-force in providing drugs, creating condition for substainable development of the pharmacy
Materia Medica ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Commerce

The Kawaratake (Van Chi) Trametes versicolor (L.:Fr) Pilat was for the first time isolated and fruitfully cultivated on mixed substrates in §a Lat, Vietnam for preservation of fungal gene resources and for supply of antitumor materia medica in comparing with the type strain from Takaski, Japan
Antineoplastic Agents ; Materia Medica ; Fungi

This paper put forward a more accurate identification method for identification of Chinese materia medica (CMM), the systematic identification of Chinese materia medica (SICMM) , which might solve difficulties in CMM identification used the ordinary traditional ways. Concepts, mechanisms and methods of SICMM were systematically introduced and possibility was proved by experiments. The establishment of SICMM will solve problems in identification of Chinese materia medica not only in phenotypic characters like the mnorphous, microstructure, chemical constituents, but also further discovery evolution and classification of species, subspecies and population in medical plants. The establishment of SICMM will improve the development of identification of CMM and create a more extensive study space.
Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; Materia Medica

Animals ; Materia Medica ; Rats ; Turtles

A number of opinion discuss about relate to medicinal plant and medicine programs which were mentioned in “the development strategy of the pharmaceutical branch during the period till 2010”. The works need do to perform decision of prime minister of government: step by step satisfy material source of making drug and produce making drug material of position of strength, specially from medicine as: additional investigate medicinal plant resources in Viet Nam, practice plant in situation of economic and society development in Viet Nam.
Materia Medica ; Adjuvants, Pharmaceutic ; growth & development

For treating diabetes, modern medicine used some drugs such as: insulin, sulfonylureas, biguanid, etc. However, long ago people had known to use medicine materials from natural herbs and animals with hypoglycemia and anti-diabetic effects: Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit. Araceae family; Lantana camara L., Verbenaceae family; Platycodon gradiflorum (Jacq.) A. DC., Campanulaceae family; Stevia rebaudiana (Bert) Hemsi, Asteraceae family; Gynostemma pentapbyllum (Thunb.) Mak. Cucurbitaceae family; Calendula officinalis L., Asteraceae family; Morus alba L., Moraceae family; Tinospora cordifolia Miers., Menispermaceae; Rheum, Polygonaceae family; Hordeum vulgare L., Poaceae family; Rehmannia glutinosa (Gaernt.) Libosch., Scrophulariaceae family; Hirudo, Hirudinidae family; Anacardium occidentale L.), Anacardiaceae family; Cordyceps sinensis (Berk.). Succ., Hepialidae family; Prunella vulgaris L.), Lamiaceae family; Allium cepa L., Alliaceae family.ew
Materia Medica ; Hypoglycemia ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Therapeutics

Nature of Chinese materia medica is the nucleus in the theory of Chinese material medica, according to the recognition of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is the character of the drug related on curative effect. Nature and efficacy of a drug is through the medical material, then, physical environment, including the temperature, humidity, atmospheric water, wind, topography, soil, micro-organism, and so on, influence the growth and development of the medical meterial. In this paper, we researched the explanation on nature of Chinese materia medica in the medical books of past dynasties, combined with the modem research, analyzed the relationship between generative reception and physical environmental factors, and discussed the effect of physical environmental factors on nature of Chinese materia medica. We indicated that the formation of Chinese materia medical nature is that the drug receptive the change of physical environmental factors, and resulted by the synthetic action of the factors, such as climate, soil, biology, topography, etc.
Environment ; Humans ; Materia Medica ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional

Processing of Chinese materia medica is one of the important part of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM). Drugs in small pieces or slices are special for China and the whole world. Processing technic of Chinses materia medica existed for thousands of years and presented the essence of TCM. The purpose of analyzing the feature and development of traditional processing culture branches was to make a better understanding of traditional processing technic, and further the development of special processing culture branches.
Materia Medica ; chemistry ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods