Table 1 The classification standard of TCM
From: Traditional Chinese medicine promotes bone regeneration in bone tissue engineering
Classification standard | Category | References |
|---|---|---|
Shen Nong’s Materia Medica | Top-grade | [9] |
Medium-grade | ||
Low-grade | ||
Compendium of Materia Medica (Ben Cao Gang Mu) | Sources, habitats, colors, parts of plants, and how they were collected, processed, and selected for prescriptions | [10] |
Four fundamental characters: cold, cool, warm, and hot | [27] | |
Five fundamental tastes: salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and pungent | ||
Four toxic states: toxic, nontoxic, very toxic, and slightly toxic | ||
12 meridians: bladder, spleen, large intestine, stomach, small intestine, liver, cardiovascular, heart, kidney, gallbladder, pericardium and san jiao | ||
Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon | Herb-derived medicine, animal-derived medicine and mineral-derived medicine | |
Treatise on Cold Damage | ||
Chinese Pharmacopoeia | ||
Active components | Alkaloids | |
Terpenoids | ||
Flavonoids | ||
Volatile Oils | ||
Lignanoids | ||
Coumarins | ||
Quinones | ||
Phenols | ||
Glycosides | ||
Saponins | ||
Stilbenes | ||
Phenols | ||
Esters |