Recent Progress of Research on Herbal Products Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine: the Herbs belonging to The Divine Husbandman's Herbal Foundation Canon (神農本草經 Shén Nóng Běn Cǎo Jīng)

• Main Authors: Kuo-Hsiung Lee, Susan Morris-Natschke, Keduo Qian, Yizhou Dong, Xiaoming Yang, Ting Zhou, Eileen Belding, Shou-Fang Wu, Koji Wada, Toshiyuki Akiyama
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012-01-01
• Series: Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine
• Subjects: Herbal products; Chinese Materia Medica (CMM) (中藥 zhōng yào); Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM); Shén Nóng Běn Cǎo Jīng (神農本草經 The Divine Husbandman's Herbal Foundation Canon by Shen Nong)
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2225411016300669
• ISSN: 2225-4110

This article will review selected herbal products from Chinese Materia Medica that are used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The herbs come from the upper, middle, and lower class medicines as listed in The Divine Husbandman's Herbal Foundation Canon (神農本草經 Shén Nóng Běn Cǎo Jīng). The review will focus on the active constituents of the herbs and their bioactivities, with emphasis on the most recent progress in research for the period of 2003 to 2011.