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Dan Shen (Salvia miltiorrhiza) in Medicine

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Salvia miltiorrhiza was first recorded as Danshen in the oldest materia medica book in China Shen Nong’s Classic of the Materia Medica and was classified as a top-tier medicine. It has ever since been recorded in subsequent materia medica books, including Part I of Chinese Pharmacopoeia, 2005 edition .

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  1. China Academy of Chinese Medical Science, Bei**g, China

    **da Hao, **rong He, Luqi Huang & Min Chen

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Hao, J., He, X., Huang, L., Chen, M. (2015). Materia Medica and Plant Resource. In: Yan, X. (eds) Dan Shen (Salvia miltiorrhiza) in Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9469-5_1

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