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  • TCM for epidemics: Niansha (pinch treatment)
  • TCM for epidemics: Guasha treatment, back view
  • TCM for epidemics: Guasha treatment, frontal view
  • Senecio pulcher Hook.&Arn. Asteraceae Distribution: South America. It has not attracted attention as a medicinal or toxic plant but members of the genus Senecio contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are toxic to the liver and may cause liver cancer. A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) product, Qianbai Biyan Pian, contains Senecio scandens which contains the unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids, senecionine and seneciphylline. This is now a banned drug. (Safety of Herbal Medicinal Products, July 2002, Medicines Control Agency). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Senecio pulcher Hook.&Arn. Asteraceae Distribution: South America. It has not attracted attention as a medicinal or toxic plant but members of the genus Senecio contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are toxic to the liver and may cause liver cancer. A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) product, Qianbai Biyan Pian, contains Senecio scandens which contains the unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids, senecionine and seneciphylline. This is now a banned drug. (Safety of Herbal Medicinal Products, July 2002, Medicines Control Agency). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Water chestnut
  • C19 Chinese paintings of famous physicians: Zhang Zhongjing
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Sesame of Jinzhou
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
  • Chinese woodcut:
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • Illustration from Ming Chinese ophthalmology text, Ms copy
  • Ming herbal (painting): Thorn apple
  • Illustration from Ming Chinese ophthalmology text, Ms copy
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Rashes etc.
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Damupi plant
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Sweating, emesis and purgation
  • Ming herbal (painting): Chinese pulsatilla [root]
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Convulsions etc.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Longan
  • Ming herbal (painting): Omphalia lapidescens Schroet.)
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Masses and accumulations etc.
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Plant drugs, Hellebore
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases