Meanings
adjectivemultiherb (not comparable)
- not comparableInvolving more than one herb.
Although Chinese medicine (CM) often uses multicomponent formulations and the actions of each component on multiple targets, the use of herb pairs—the unique clinical combination of two relatively fixed herbs—is the simplest and most fundamental form of multiherb therapy aimed at specific efficacy.
2015 July 2, Yi-ping Guo, Li-gen Lin, Yi-tao Wang, “Chemistry and pharmacology of the herb pair Flos Lonicerae japonicae-Forsythiae fructus”, in Chinese Medicine, volume 10, →DOI
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