Welcome to the Legendary Herbs Professional Corner
Our professional corner has a variety of articles for practitioners. This material is generally derived from texts, published articles, and lecture notes created by our founder Eric Brand.
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Economic Botany Collections: A source of material evidence for exploring historical changes in Chinese medicinal materials (based on Eric’s PhD research, published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology)
A Concise Classification of Bencao (published in Chinese Medicine)
Chinese Medicinal Processing (published in Ethnopharmacology)
Establishing Platforms to Advance Chinese Medicinal Authentication (published in the Journal of Japanese Botany, 100th anniversary edition)
Research assessing variations in ginsenosides based on morphological characteristics (published in the Journal of Ginseng Research)
Research into the effects of traditional processing methods on heshouwu (published in Frontiers in Ethnopharmacology)
A field report on Chinese herbal medicines stored in the Natural History Museum of London (article in Chinese)
Clarifying the Origin of Houzao (a report from our recent research trip to India, published in Chinese Medicine)
More article links:
Importance of Pao Zhi, published in the Journal of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine
Articles by others:
A Systematic Study on Confused Species of Chinese Materia Medica in the Hong Kong Market
Sino-Iranica, a 1919 publication exploring medicinal plant exchange between China and ancient Persia
Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research in the Post-genomic Era
World Health Organization’s IST terminology for traditional Asian medicine
Transmission of foreign medicines via the Silk Road in Medieval China