How many kinds of Chinese medicines are there?

There are many kinds of medicinal plants and Chinese herbal medicines in China. The new edition of the Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine will include 12807 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, including1146 kinds of medicinal plants,158/kloc-0 kinds of animals and 80 kinds of minerals. There are still many places where medicinal materials may not be included, and even there are nearly a thousand kinds of commonly used Chinese medicinal materials, so I won't write them for you one by one.

However, different classification methods can be adopted and classified according to their purposes and priorities:

1. Classified by drug function-such as antidotes, antipyretics, qi-regulating drugs, drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, etc.

2. According to the classification of medicinal parts-such as roots, leaves, flowers, skins, etc.

3. Classification according to effective components-such as Chinese herbal medicines containing alkaloids, Chinese herbal medicines containing volatile oils, Chinese herbal medicines containing glycosides, etc.

4. Classification according to natural attributes and kinship-for example, Chinese herbal medicines are divided into plant medicines, animal medicines and mineral medicines. Animals and plants are classified and arranged according to the kinship of their original vivid plants. Such as Ephedraceae, Magnoliaceae, Ranunculaceae, etc.