Chinese medicines since ancient times are made on the basis of natural components of medicinal plants, minerals, extracts of animal origin.

Chinese medicines for human action

Traditional medicine gives its own explanation of the effects of drugs on the human body. Without having, of course, scientific criteria for determining the indications and contraindications to the use of this or that remedy and the interpretation of the mechanism of its action, the Chinese physicians of antiquity brought to their observations and conclusions the philosophical views of their time, such as, for example, the doctrine of the five primary elements. That is why they attached such importance to color, taste and other, purely external, properties of medicines.

On these properties, a conclusion was often made about the conformity of a given remedy to a primary element and a certain organ. So, according to the views of that time:

• Green and acidic medicines