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What is Chinese medicine?

Chinese medicine where under the guidance of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine used to prevent and cure diseases of the general term of the drug. Including Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese medicine tablets, Chinese patent medicine.

Chinese herbal medicines

Medicinal herbs are the raw materials of Chinese medicine tablets. Herbs refers to meet the drug standard, generally refers to the original plant of the herb, animal, mineral removal of non-medicinal parts of the commercial medicinal herbs. Herbs are not specified concoction requirements, are referred to raw herbs, should be handled in accordance with the appendix of the general rules of herbal concoctions of the net system item.

Chinese medicine tablets

The Chinese medicine tablets

are the processed concoctions of Chinese herbal medicines and their Chinese herbal medicines that can be directly used for mixing or preparation under the guidance of the theory of Chinese medicine. The medicines used in Chinese medicine clinics to treat diseases are Chinese medicine tablets and proprietary Chinese medicines, and the raw materials of proprietary Chinese medicines are also Chinese medicine tablets and not Chinese herbal medicines.

Proprietary Chinese medicines

Proprietary Chinese medicines are a class of medicines that can be used directly to prevent and treat diseases after processing or extracting Chinese medicines into certain specifications using certain formulas.

There are two concepts of pCms.

One is the narrow sense of proprietary Chinese medicine, it mainly refers to the Chinese herbal medicine according to certain principles of treatment made of formula, ready to take ready-made medicines, such as proprietary Chinese medicines in a variety of pills, dispersions, punch, etc., which is the life of the pCms;

The other is a broad sense of proprietary Chinese medicine, which includes the concept of proprietary Chinese medicines in the narrow sense of the concept of proprietary Chinese medicines, but also includes all the concoctions made of herbs and herbs. medicinal herbs.