• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.177-181
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• 1999

'Chung Kwei Won(淸快園)' is a Chinese patent medicine, which is used for stomachic disorder, acute and chronic indigestion, dispepsia, vomiting and diarrhea in Korea. This preparation consists of 16 kinds of powdered crude drugs. For the identification of individual crude drugs in such powdery mixtures, microscopic method may be used conviniently 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 in 'Chung Kwei Won' which contains 16 powder crude drug ingredients.