![]() ![]() In addition, other conventional Chinese herbal screening methods require the operators to have very rich work experience and expertise, or some subtle changes will lead to errors in the identification results. This further increases the difficulty in the identification of Chinese herbal medicines. ![]() Moreover, there are many disadvantages to the all too common practices of using the same name to describe many different herbs, or in having multiple names for a single medicinal material. After thousands of years of development, traditional Chinese medicine has grown into a vast system, and its medicinal ingredients are numerous and complex. It is assumed that there is a certain level of contamination of counterfeit and inferior medicinal ingredients in compound medications made by processing drugs of many ingredients, and it is difficult to identify the contaminating materials following the traditional method of identification. However, these methods have some shortcomings and disadvantages. These methods are still used, are relatively simple to carry out, and have led to substantial advancements in the screening of Chinese herbal medicines. The traditional method of determining the authenticity of traditional Chinese medicine is to evaluate the color, shape, or nature of the medicinal materials using either physical/chemical methods or microscopy. ![]()
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