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Can you understand and remember these words or phrases?

 
 
Reply Fri 10 May, 2013 06:44 am
Well, hard to remember for me: Fructus Cannabis, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis, and Fructus Aurantll Immaturus

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Based on this collaborative study, the research teams at HKBU and CUHK have recently received further funding from the Food and Health Bureau to jointly launch an ongoing project to compare the efficacy and safety of MZRW with traditional Western medicine and placebo. The formula of MZRW has been commonly used for excessive constipation in China since the Han Dynasty (A.D. 200). It is a mixture of Fructus Cannabis, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis, and Fructus Aurantll Immaturus.


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http://enews.hkbu.edu.hk/view_article.php?id=20972

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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Fri 10 May, 2013 10:39 am
Those are scientific names, latinized, for botanicals. It's not English. I'd remember them if I was researching them, otherwise, I wouldn't bother.
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Reply Fri 10 May, 2013 11:52 am
@oristarA,
I'd agree Ori that he should have included the common names
Ceili
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Reply Sat 11 May, 2013 11:11 pm
@dalehileman,
Common names are only common in the areas they are common. I'm pretty sure a dandelion or a daisy or even an apple tree would be called something entirely different in China.
dalehileman
 
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Reply Sun 12 May, 2013 11:37 am
@Ceili,
Quite true Ceili
However, as it's principally an English-language forum…..

Edited to remark,

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=HKBU+and+CUHK&oq=HKBU+and+CUHK&gs_l=serp.12...85770154.85770154.1.85770890.1.1.0.0.0.0.553.553.5-1.1.0...0.0...1c.2.12.psy-ab.ZgDOAYKnBqI&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=194bd72b810bd118&biw=1194&bih=750

So your point's nonetheless well taken
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JTT
 
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Reply Mon 20 May, 2013 03:55 pm
@dalehileman,
All disciplines have their own jargon, Dale.
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