Advances in safety evaluation of medicinal and edible Chinese materia medica of wood, fruit and herb categories
10.7501/j.issn.0253-2670.2019.10.035
- Author:
Ling WU
1
Author Information
1. Key Laboratory of Modern Preparation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Chinese materia medica with medicine and food homology;
Fruit categories;
Herb categories;
Safety;
Wood categories
- From:
Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs
2019;50(10):2505-2512
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The medicinal and edible Chinese herbs are the wisdom crystallization found and summarized by the ancients with medicine and food homology. Although the active ingredients and pharmacological effects of the medicinal and edible Chinese herbs have been widely reported in the literatures, there are relatively few reports on their safety. Ancient herbal medicines works, especially food-based herbal medicines works, recorded a large number of the medicinal and edible Chinese herbs, and systematically summarized the sources, varieties, efficacy, taboos, usage and dosage, etc. By systematically consulting and sorting out the relevant literatures, this paper summarized the safety or adverse reactions of the medicinal and edible Chinese herbs of the wood, fruit and grass categories, which provided valuable basis for dietary therapy and health care.
