Advances in safety evaluation of medicine and food homology of vegetable categories, cereal categories and others of Chinese materia medica / 中草药

ABSTRACT

The medicine and food homology of Chinese materia medica (CMM) is the wisdom crystallization found and summarized by the ancients in food and medicine. Although the active ingredients and pharmacological effects of medicine and food homology of CMM has been widely reported in the literatures, there are relatively few reports on their safety. Ancient herbal medicines works, especially food-based herbal medicines, recorded a large number of the medicinal edible Chinese herbs, and systematically summarized the sources, varieties, efficacy, taboos, usage and dosage, etc. By systematically consulting and sorting out the relevant literatures, this paper summarized the safety or adverse reactions of medicine and food homology of CMM, which provided valuable basis for dietary therapy and health care.