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Review of Reviews E. Leong Way Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 HERBAL MEDICINE Within the past decade there has been a resurgence of interest in plant products with biologic activity. In large part, the stimulus has been provided by the People's Republic of China opening its doors. Successes there in preventive medicine, eradication of certain parasitic and venereal diseases, acupuncture, and bum therapy as well as extensive research projects in materia medica were a revelation to the West. The massive program mentioned above was the consequence of political as well as practical considerations. During the early years after the Communist Party assumed control of China, there was dire need of physicians throughout the country, and particularly in rural areas. To Mao Zedong and the party planners the solution was simple: Mao deemed that "Chinese traditional medi­ cine is a vast valuable national treasure which should be intensively exploited and improved." A ukase was issued, therefore, that Western-trained physicians and traditional Chinese practitioners should merge their knowledge and skills to serve the people. As a consequence, relative to other biologic sciences, pharmacology assumed an exalted position as an intensive program to justify established herbal remedies and to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology Annual Reviews

Review of Reviews

Way, E L
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology , Volume 26 (1) – Apr 1, 1986
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Annual Reviews
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Copyright 1986 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
Subject
Review Articles
ISSN
0362-1642
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1545-4304
DOI
10.1146/annurev.pa.26.040186.003031
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3521464
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Abstract

E. Leong Way Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 HERBAL MEDICINE Within the past decade there has been a resurgence of interest in plant products with biologic activity. In large part, the stimulus has been provided by the People's Republic of China opening its doors. Successes there in preventive medicine, eradication of certain parasitic and venereal diseases, acupuncture, and bum therapy as well as extensive research projects in materia medica were a revelation to the West. The massive program mentioned above was the consequence of political as well as practical considerations. During the early years after the Communist Party assumed control of China, there was dire need of physicians throughout the country, and particularly in rural areas. To Mao Zedong and the party planners the solution was simple: Mao deemed that "Chinese traditional medi­ cine is a vast valuable national treasure which should be intensively exploited and improved." A ukase was issued, therefore, that Western-trained physicians and traditional Chinese practitioners should merge their knowledge and skills to serve the people. As a consequence, relative to other biologic sciences, pharmacology assumed an exalted position as an intensive program to justify established herbal remedies and to

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Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology – Annual Reviews

Published: Apr 1, 1986

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