• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.84-87
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• 1997

Cheon Hai Whan is a Chinese Patent medicine, Which is used for couch remedy in Korea. This medicine consists of 17 powdered crude drugs. The microscopic method is very useful to identify individual gradients in powdery mixture because it requires only a small amount of specimens. In this study, It is demonstrated that the microscopic method is very effective for the identification of 17 crude drug ingredients contained in Cheon Hal Whan.