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From: Mineral medicine: from traditional drugs to multifunctional delivery systems
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Illustration of the development process of mineral pharmaceutical preparations. The application of mineral medicine was first recorded in “Shanhaijing”. “Shennong herbal classic” and “Compendium of Materia Medica” have sorted out the mineral medicines. In the twenty-first century, with the development of modern scientific and technological means, people's understanding of mineral drugs has gradually deepened. The FDA's first approval of arsenic trioxide as a first-line anticancer drug is of epoch-making significance. (The