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Table 8 Shared-use medicines involved in TM preparations

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

Number of preparations involved

Scientific name of the shared-use medicines

The number of shared-use medicines/ The total number of medicinal materials[1] (percentage composition)

> 300

Terminalia chebula Retz. (Terminalia chebula Retz., Terminalia chebula Retz. var. tomentella (Kurz) C. B. Clarke), Carthamus tinctorius L., Aucklandia lappa Decne.

3/3

(100%)

201~300

PHYLLANTHI FRUCTUS, Amomum kravanh Pierre ex Gagnep, Punica granatum L., Zha-xun, Piper longum L, Ewgewia caryophyllata Thunb., MOSCHUS (Moschus berezovskii Flerov, Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus, Mochus sifanicus Buchner), Inula racemosa Hook.f., Myristica fragrans Houtt.

9/9

(100%)

99~200

Calcitum, BOVIS CALCULUS, Adhatoda vasica Nees, CINNAMOMI CORTEX, Aquilaria agallocha Roxb (Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg, Aquilaria agallocha Roxb), Zingiber officinale Rosc., Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. (Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch., Glycyrrhiza inflata Bat.), Amomum tsaoko Crevost et Lemair, Styrax benzoin Dryand., Tinospora sinensis (Lour.) Merr.

10/19

(53%)

51~100

BAMBUSAE CONCRETIO SILICEA (Bambusa textilis McClure and Schizostachyum chinense Rendle root exudates), Dalbergia odorifera T. Chen, OLIBANUM, Rubia cordifolia L., Selenarctos thibetanus G. Cuvier, Rhodiola crenulata(Hook. f. et Thoms.)H. Ohba

, Acorus calamus L., Aconitum pendulum Busch, Piper nigrum L., Crocus sativus L., Malva verticillata, Abelmoschus moschatus Medic, Cassia obtusifolia L., Tribulus terrestris L.

14/19

(73%)

11~50

FERULAE RESINA (Ferula fukanensis K. M. Shen, Ferula sinkiangensis K. M. Shen), Kaempferia galanga L., Gossampinus malabarica (DC.) Mern, Cinnabaris, MARGARITA (Cristaria plicata (Leach), Hyriopsis cumingii (Lea)., Pinctada martensii (Dunker)) , Borax, Corallium

7/103

(7%)

  1. Note: Considering that pomegranate seed rather than pomegranate is used in TM, pomegranate seeds and pomegranate were merged in this table