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ReviewChinese herbal medicines2025

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine in European Union: State of art, challenges, and future perspectives focusing on Italian market.

Anna Rita Bilia, Rebecca Ballerini, Liping Qu, Mei Wang

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Review in Chinese herbal medicines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Anna Rita BiliaDepartment of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", Sesto Fiorentino 50019, Italy.
Rebecca BalleriniDepartment of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", Sesto Fiorentino 50019, Italy.
Liping QuState Key Laboratory of Southwestern Chinese Medicine Resources, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 610037, China.
Mei WangNaturalis Biodiversity Center, RA Leiden 2300, Netherlands/Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine (TCM) has been used in China for thousands of years as an integral part of the healthcare system.The use of botanical products deriving from plants from TCM has become very spread and rooted in European Union (EU), generating a manufacturing industry of pronounced size, in particular the segment of food supplements, but recently also medical devices and cosmetics based on plants from TCM, especially in Italy. Only seven Herbal Medicinal Products (HMP) based on plants from TCM are present in EU besides more than 100 monographs on TCM plants are present in

Indexed as

European and Italian marketfood supplementsherbal medicinal products medical device and cosmetictraditional Chinese medicine

Identifiers

PMID39949801
PMCPMC11814246

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