Microscopic Identification of the Chinese Patent Medicine 'Hae Dong Gye Meong Hwan'

해동계명환의 현미감정 연구

  • Published : 1998.09.30

Abstract

'Hae Dong Gye Meong Hwan' is a Chinese patent medicine, which is used as a cough remedy or an expectorant, for asthma, bronchitis, and so on in Korea. This powdery medicine consist of 14 kinds of crude drugs. For the identification of individual ingredients in the preparation, microscopic method may advantageously be used as it requires only a small amount of specimens. In this paper, the effectiveness of this method is exemplified by the identification of the ingredients.

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