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Chinese medicine is herbal medicine, proprietary Chinese medicine?

1, the broad sense of "Chinese medicine" includes traditional Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, proprietary Chinese medicine;

2, the narrow sense of "Chinese medicine" refers to successive generations of herbs, pharmacopoeia, etc. for doctors, pharmacies, medicinal plants, animals, minerals, and other natural medicines (such as). Rootless water, etc.);

3. "Herbal medicine": natural medicines that have not been included in the formal pharmacopoeia and pharmacy over the ages, and are widely circulated in the folklore for the treatment of illnesses, including plants, animals, minerals, and other natural medicines, with herbs as the mainstay, and the whole herb as the mainstay;

4, "Proprietary drugs": drugs mixed, processed with a fixed dosage form of bulk/powder, tablets/pills, water/tincture/liquid, a variety of creams, ingots, injections, sprays and so on synthetic medicines; there are pure Chinese medicines/herbs made of Chinese medicine, known as "proprietary Chinese medicines"; with the use of Chinese medicine (in the broad sense) + Western medicine, known as "synthetic drugs" or "Chinese and Western synthetic drugs".