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Chinese Medicine

Chinese Medicines or herbs have been proven effective and safe for the individual 's health . Chinese individuals have been using traditional Chinese medicine for the past centuries and decades already and to create an effective medicine for a certain illness , they combine certain medical herbs . The process or the artistic way into which they combine medicinal herbs or plants into a

one essential and effective medicine is called Herbology ADDIN EN .CITE WikipediaWikipediaChinese herbology2007http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Chinese_herbology (Wikipedia , 2007

Because there are some patients who needed more than two herbal medicine to take every after an hour , certain practitioner creates a remedy in to make the intake of medicine easier . The remedy is that the practitioner will prepare ingredients /different medical herbs which are prescribed for the illness , then after , the practitioner will combine them all to create a single medicine to intake ADDIN EN .CITE WikipediaWikipediaChinese herbology2007http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Chinese_herbology (Wikipedia , 2007 . The said ingredients used to create a certain medicine in Chinese were originally from a part of certain medicinal herbs such as the stem , the leaves , the fruits , and even the roots . Sometimes they also add an animal part which is also medicinal and sometimes they also include minerals ADDIN EN .CITE WikipediaWikipediaChinese herbology2007http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Chinese_herbology (Wikipedia , 2007

The first ever person who is believed to be an herbalist from the Chinese Tradition Medicine is Shennong . People says that Shennong already tasted hundreds of different herbal medicines and that he imparted his knowledge about medicinal items or ingredients and poisonous plants towards the people who are involved or working in agriculture . Shennong created the first book or manual which provides pharmacology information and knowledge . The book is entitled Shennong Bencao Jing or as it is in English Shennong Emperor 's Classic of Materia Medica . The manual made by Shennong has a list of 365 medicinal items plants or animal parts and minerals ADDIN EN .CITE WikipediaWikipediaChinese herbology2007http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Chinese_herbology (Wikipedia , 2007

Chinese herbs are being categorized into three classifications . The first method in to make the classification is the Four Natures which pertains to the level of yin and yang from the extreme cold level to moderately cool and neutral to warm and to extremely hot . These said states or levels of yin and yang is being based from whenever a doctor searches or seeks for the appropriate herbal medicines to be used ADDIN EN .CITE WikipediaWikipediaChinese herbology2007http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Chinese_herbology (Wikipedia , 2007

The second one is the Five Tastes these are enumerated as pungent sweet , sour , bitter and salty . This explains how herbs are used according to taste such as pungent herbal medicines are used to regenerate sweet and to regulate and vitalize the gi and the blood . The sweet herbs are used for...