Where is the Herbarium of Chinese Medicine of China Pharmaceutical University located?

The Herbarium of Chinese Medicine of China Pharmaceutical University is an educational base for popularization of science.

The Herbarium of China Pharmaceutical University is located in the campus of China Pharmaceutical University at the foot of Yanziji in Nanjing. The buildings here are all built on the mountain, the layout is staggered, quite unique style of Chinese garden architecture. The campus is filled with flowers and trees, lush herb gardens, green grass, and a charming southern flavor.

China Pharmaceutical University is the earliest independent higher education institution of pharmacy in China, which was originally established in 1936 as the National Pharmaceutical College.

October 1986, the school was renamed as the current name, and then in the original medicinal plant herbarium and the original herbarium of medicinal herbs on the basis of the formal establishment of the China Pharmaceutical University of the herbarium of traditional Chinese medicine.

The Herbarium consists of three parts: the Herbarium of Biomedicine, the Herbarium of Medicinal Plants and the Comprehensive Exhibition Room. Inside the herbarium, there are herbarium specimens that have been collected and identified by several generations of scholars for many years. Among them, there are wild ginseng, deer antler, rhinoceros horn, tiger bone, oxalis, horse treasure, monkey date, antelope horn, musk and other valuable herbs, as well as thousands of commonly used herbs of different origins and time; many kinds of counterfeit herbs appearing in the market are also stored in special cabinets here, which provide physical materials for the appraisal of Chinese herbal medicine and the identification of counterfeiting. In addition, the herbs specimens of more than 20 topics involved in the research project "Collation and Quality Research of Commonly Used Chinese Materia Medica Varieties" of China Pharmaceutical University, which was awarded the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, are also preserved intact in the Herbarium Room, which is of high research and collection value.

The spacious and bright comprehensive exhibition hall displays more than 300 bottles of foreign medicinal herbs specimens made by E. Merck Company of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s of this century. Changsha Mawangdui No. 1 Han Tomb archaeological excavations of part of the medicinal herbs are also on display here, although the number is not large, but the museum collection in the longest history of the medicinal herbs specimens. In addition, specimens of powder identification of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines, specimens of commonly used Chinese herbal medicinal tablets, specimens of poisonous herbs from Hong Kong, samples of valuable proprietary Chinese medicines, and specimens of commonly used minerals and animal medicinal herbs are also on display. The exhibits in the comprehensive exhibition hall, from minerals, plants to animals, from the underground part to the above ground part, from the whole to the part, from the tablets to the finished medicine, will make you feel that the Chinese medicine culture of our country has a long history and is profound and profound.

There are more than 6,000 kinds of waxy leaf specimens in the medicinal plant specimen room, which are orderly arranged in the specimen cabinet according to Engler's classification system. Among the many exhibits, there are the specimens collected and made by the United States in 1880, the specimens collected and made by the former Soviet Union at the beginning of this century, the specimens exchanged with Vietnam, North Korea, Japan and other countries, thousands of specimens of medicinal plants from Emei Mountain at the early stage of the founding of the university, as well as precious specimens of medicinal plants from the Daxing'anling Mountains of Heilongjiang Province, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Xishuangbanna, Hainan and other remote areas.

Beside the Herbarium, there is also a medicinal botanical garden and a cultivation greenhouse, which was built in 1958. The botanical garden covers an area of 40 acres and cultivates more than 1,000 kinds of medicinal and ornamental plants. Under the dense shade of trees, the quiet paths are full of Chinese herbs with various names and functions. There are tall woody plants, tangled vines, shy ferns, low shrubs, and herbs of different shapes. The chicly shaped, four-season large-scale greenhouse cultivates a variety of tropical medicinal plants and rare ornamental flowers of high research and ornamental value.

As an important scientific and educational base of China Pharmaceutical University, and also as the executive director of "National Higher Education School Museum Association" and "National TCM College Herbarium Professional Committee", the Herbarium is not only in the identification of Chinese herbs, but also in the utilization of plant resources, The Herbarium has not only carried out in-depth and extensive research in the identification of Chinese herbs, brewing of Chinese medicines, utilization of plant resources, and construction of Chinese medicine herbarium, but also carried out extensive scientific research exchanges and cooperation with more than 30 countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, Canada, Sweden, etc., which has won unanimously high praise from the counterparts both at home and abroad.

The culture of traditional Chinese medicine is the national treasure of the Chinese nation, which is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient working people in using natural medicinal herbs to fight against diseases, and has a development history of thousands of years. With the scientific and technological progress of the society, the use of natural medicine is also more and more attention. Chinese herbal medicine is effective, less toxic side effects, coupled with the unique health care connotation of Chinese medicine, which makes the Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine every year to attract a large number of scholars at home and abroad, students, travelers to visit and learn to understand the long history of the culture of traditional Chinese medicine and health care. 1997 the museum was designated as the Nanjing Municipal Commission of Education of the primary and secondary schools as a base for popular science education.