Materia medica (lit.: 'medical material/substance') is a Latin term from the history of pharmacy for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic...
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De materia medica (Latin name for the Greek work Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, Peri hulēs iatrikēs, both meaning "On Medical Material") is a pharmacopoeia of medicinal...
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Homeopathy (redirect from Materia Medica Pura)
1805, and a second collection of 65 preparations appeared in his book, Materia Medica Pura (1810). As Hahnemann believed that large doses of drugs that caused...
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Pedanius Dioscorides (section De materia medica)
was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of De materia medica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, On Medical Material), a 5-volume Greek encyclopedia...
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Chinese herbology (redirect from Chinese materia medica)
poisonous plants to farmers. His Shénnóng Běn Cǎo Jīng (神農本草經, Shennong's Materia Medica) is considered as the oldest book on Chinese herbal medicine. It classifies...
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Bencao Gangmu (redirect from Compendium of Materia Medica)
The Bencao gangmu, known in English as the Compendium of Materia Medica or Great Pharmacopoeia, is an encyclopedic gathering of medicine, natural history...
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Traditional Chinese medicine (redirect from Traditional Chinese materia medica)
Neijing (The Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor), and Compendium of Materia Medica, a sixteenth-century encyclopedic work, and includes various forms of...
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Eclectic Materia Medica is a materia medica written[when?] by the eclectic medicine doctor Harvey Wickes Felter (co-author with John Uri Lloyd of King's...
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Li Shizhen (section Compendium of Materia Medica)
Ming dynasty. He is the author of a 27-year work, the Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu; Chinese: 本草綱目). He developed several methods for classifying...
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Herbal (section Dioscorides – De Materia Medica)
tradition of the illustrated herbal in the first century BCE. The De Materia Medica (c. 40–90 CE; Greek, Περί ύλης ιατρικής "Peri hules iatrikes", 'On medical...
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