This is the Medicinals section of CMD, which contains 6,000 medicinals and folk medicines with Chinese, English, and Latin pharmacognostic names, their properties (nature, flavor, channel entry), actions, indications, production areas, etc.

Menu

You can select any item from the list appearing below the search box.

• Click Introduction to information in the Dictionary about the channel of interest.
• Click on the category you want for a list of items in the category.
• Click on the medicinal you want to see.

Searches

• First, select Headword only or Headword and Text depending on whether you wish to search in the heading of an entry/article or through the heading and the text below it.
• Then, in the search box, enter Latin pharmacognostic name, unaccented Pīnyīn, simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese, or English (literal translation of the point name).
  Note that joined-up Pīnyīn can be used to search for headwords, but not the whole text.
• After entering your search word(s), you will see the Search Results appear. You can select
  • Starting with to give you headwords that start with your search string or
  • Containing to give headwords that contain (or the text of which contains) your search string.
• A filter box below Results allows you to insert another search string to narrow your search. So, for example, if your search string is blood vacuity, you can add headache in the filter box. To find all medicinals in which blood vacuity and headache both appear, either in the headword or headword and text, depending on which selection you have made.

Links

• The texts include copious links to the Dictionary and Formulas.
• For those studying Chinese, each character of the simplified Chinese text is linked to the Terms table, where examples of its use can be found, together with links to stroke order animations.