A comparative study on shared-use medicines in Tibetan and Chinese medicine

Table 7 Number and percentage of different origins of shared-use medicines (classes I–V)

	I	II	III	IV	V	The total number of different origins	Percentage of different origins of shared-use medicines
The first category	6	12	8	28	13	67	49%
The second category	2	2	0	12	0	16	12%
The third category	6	4	1	8	1	20	15%
The fourth category	3	3	3	18	1	28	20%
The fifth category	2	0	2	1	0	5	4%

The first category included varieties that distributed in both Tibetan region and the areas mainly controlled by the Central Plains regime in history; the second category included varieties that were mainly produced in the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas; the third category included varieties that were imported from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Regions; the fourth category included the varieties that were generated in the inland and that were traded in the Tibetan region; the last category included the varieties that were mainly imported from the Han district

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