White Hyacinth Bean
Source White Hyacinth Bean is the dried ripe seed ofDolichos lablan L. (Fam. Leguminousae). Producing Areas Hunan, Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Sichuan, etc. Properti...
Category: Chinese Herbal Medicine
Common Yam Rhizome
Source Common Yam Rhizome is the dried rhizome ofDioscorea opposita Thunb. (Fam. Dioscoreaceae). Producing Areas Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, etc Properties Sweet, Neu...
Largehead Atractylodes Rhizome
Source Largehead Atractylodes Rhizome is the rhizome ofAtractylodes macrocephala Koidz. (Fam. Compositae). Producing Areas Zhejiang, Anhui, etc. Properties Swee...
Milkvetch Root
Source Milkvetch Root is the dried root ofAstragalus membranaceus (Fisch.) Bunge var.mongholicus (Bunge) Hsiao, andA. membranaceus (Fisch.) Bunge, and the other...
Heterophylly Falsestarwort Root
Source Heterophylly Falsestarwort Root is the dried tuber ofPseudostellaria heterophylla (Miq.) Pax ex Pax et Hoffm. (Fam. Caryophyllaceae). Producing Areas Sha...
Pilose Asiabell Root
Source Codonopsis Root is the dried root ofCodonopsis. pilosula (Franch.) Nannf., and other several species of the same genus, (Fam. Companulaceae). Producing A...
Western Ginseng (American Ginseng)
Source Western Ginseng is the dried root ofPanax quinquefolium L. Producing Areas It grows mainly in the USA, Canada,and France. Cultivated in China as well. Pr...
Ginseng
Source Ginseng Root is the dried root (or with rhizome) ofPanax ginseng C.A. Mey., (Fam. Araliaceae.) Producing Areas Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang provinces, e...
Is medicinal diet a form of medicine or food?
Medicinal diet (yaoshan ) uses vegetables, meat, egg, milk, aquatic and bean products as main ingredients to match with various Chinese medicinal materials, mak...
Do you know how to preserve Chinese medicines?
Many people purchase expensive or commonly-used medicinal materials and store them at home for future use. But when the herbs are stored over a long period of t...