Aristolochia, botanical names

[Guest guest]

The link: http://www.paradigm-pubs.com/paradigm/refs/wiseman/drugname.pdf

leads to a 52 page paper that Nigel Wiseman put together last October when this

issue

arose. It was originally done as part of the peer review prior to publication

of his 1995

Chinese language dictionary in which the nomenclature of some (if I remember

properly) 6,000 substances of the Chinese materia medica are listed. Page 8

relates to

the current issue.

In sum, it describes the various naming approaches: latin, pinyin and English,

in terms

of what happens in actual publication using these systems and the effects on

identification accuracy. It concludes that there are tried-and-true methods of

creating

English names that are no less accurate than the latin, and much more likely to

be

properly spelled and transcribed. In fact, the electronic edition of Wiseman's

Practical

Dictionary is something of an acid test for this approach because the materia

medica

standard as well as the term standard that were brought together in that project

were

actually independently prepared. The Traditional Academy did the materia

medica

unknown to Wiseman and Feng using Wiseman's Chinese dictionary. When it was

brought together with the Practical Dictionary, it held up. These relations

would have

produced random (messy, stupid) or missing relationships had the standard been

unimplementable or flawed.

There will be a conference at the Beijing Traditional Academy this year to go

over

English common names. When Nigel returns from that conference, there will

probably

be some further progress to report.

Bob

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Does anybody know if the FDA found arisotolic acid in the lotus and qualiherbs or just recalled based on herb names

alon

[Guest guest]

At this point, the FDA assert that here may only be ZERO parts per million

of aristolochic acid in any product. that is less than mercury and arsenic.

Cara