Traceability and Characters Analysis on Names of Traditional Chinese Medicine Plants.

Study on the origin of plant name and its classification will contribute to the understanding, application and utilization of medicinal plants and Chinese material medicine. A variety of textual and classified research on material medicine literature, monographs, literature and other information were consulted. We summarized that the name of traditional Chinese medicine plant was closely correlated with its morphological or some other characteristics, e. g. efficacy, flavor, product area, habitats or the name derived from homonym, legend or to commemorate someone. The study on the traceability and characters analysis has intuitive benefit in understanding the characters of medicine plants and/or Chinese material medicine, which has an important inspiration and reference function to promote the teaching and researching of the main specialized basis courses of traditional Chinese pharmacal speciality, i. e. Pharmaceutical Botany, Pharmaceutical Botany and Pharmacognosy, Chinese Medicine Identification, Chinese Material Medicine and Clinical Chinese Pharmacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]