What are Some Different Types of Medicinal Herbs?

Medicinal materials can be used as raw materials for pharmaceuticals, especially Chinese medicinal materials in China, that is, raw materials of traditional Chinese medicine that are not processed or finished. Chinese medicine is a traditional Chinese medicinal material. Chinese medicine culture has a long history and is extensive and profound. It includes both thousands of years of traditional Chinese medicine civilization and the integration of modern and western medicine civilization. It is an important part of China's outstanding culture.

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Drug Name: Medicinal herbs
Alias: Raw materials for medicine
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Drug type: traditional Chinese medicine

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According to the processing grade, processing method, origin, color, packaging, and quality of medicinal materials, it can be divided into the following specifications:

Medicinal materials by processing grade

According to the processing level: the initial processing classification includes unified goods, selected goods, general elections, small elections, special selections, first, second, third, fourth and fifth grades, and external grades. Among them, unified goods are a kind of large and small goods mixed together. specification. Common grades are Baiji, raw land, Gastrodia, and similar grades like Sanqi, Ginseng, Chuanxiong, and American Ginseng. Such as 37 points, 60 heads, 40 heads, 20 heads, 120 heads, 80 heads, countless heads, and other grades; there are 64, 30, 20, ginseng and red ginseng; 25 ginseng, 40 and 60 branches; American ginseng is divided into long branches, short branches and so on. There is also a division by processing clarity and method. For example, those with yam with epidermis are called "hair yam", and the epidermis is removed and rounded into a product called "light yam". Others include Maoxiangfu and Guangxiangfu; Poria cocos and Poria columba; raw sun-participating red ginseng; fur-shell musk and musk kernel.

Medicinal materials according to processing method

According to the processing method: there are clear water, salt water, biological system, mature system, net goods, water washing, etc. For example, the whole scorpion is divided into clear water and salt water, and there is a difference between natural and mature land. Kinds of medicinal materials), Wang Buliu, Caojingming, and Rhizome have net and miscellaneous ingredients. Cuscuta, Psyllium and other small-grain medicinal materials can be washed and net.

Medicinal materials by origin

According to the place of origin: the same kind of medicinal materials is distinguished by the place of origin, such as Atractylodes and Zhejiang, Licorice has Neogene and Inner Mongolian, Wind-Related, Western and Qitong.

Herbs according to harvest time

According to the harvest time and growth period: Sanqi is often divided into "Spring Seven" and "Winter Seven" due to different harvest seasons. The former was selected for less than three years of life and was dug before flowering, with a full texture and excellent quality; the latter was harvested after seeding in autumn and winter, and was of low bulk quality. Forsythia is based on picking fruits at different times in the morning and evening.

Medicinal herbs by color

According to color: Forsythia has green and yellow, tannin is divided into black dan (without skin) and white dan (also known as shaving dan, which is shaving off the skin). Common color specifications are yellow, green, black, white, Ang Thong etc.

Medicinal herbs according to packaging

Packing: organic bags, woven bags, loose handles, wicker handles, etc. Such as bagged half stick lotus and machine tied half stick lotus, scattered codonopsis, wicker angelica and so on.

Medicinal herbs by quality

According to quality: The quality specifications are roughly divided into domestic and wild species, domestic and imported, firewood and powder, such as wild salvia and domestic salvia, imported American ginseng and domestic American ginseng, powder dried ginger and firewood dried ginger, etc.