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| Scientific name (part)1 | Chinese traditional name | Frequency (n) | In contemporary pharmacopoeia2 |
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| Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. (root) | Gan cao | 286 (3 sheng gan cao, 26 zhi gan cao) | No |
| Zingiber officinale Rosc. (rhizome) | Jiang | 209 (115 sheng jiang, 28 gan jiang, 6 pao jiang) | No |
| Angelica sinensis Oliv. Diels (root) | Dang gui | 183 | Yes |
| Paeonia lactiflora Pall. (root) | Shao yao | 182 (28 chi shao yao, 43 bai shao yao) | No |
| Saposhnikovia divaricata Turcz. Schischk (root) | Fang feng | 165 | Yes |
| Cinnamomum cassia Presl. (bark) | Gui zhi | 155 | Yes |
| Ephedra sinica Stapf. (herb) | Ma huang | 151 | No |
| Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz. (rhizome) | Bai zhu | 147 | No |
| Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort. (root) | Chuan xiong | 133 (1 xiong qiong, 2 tai qiong) | Yes |
| Notopterygium incisum Ting (root and rhizome) | Qiang huo | 128 | Yes |
| Poria cocos Schw. Wolf (sclerotium) | Fu ling | 127 (23 chi fu ling, 13 bai fu ling, 7 fu shen) | No |
| Achyranthes bidentata Bl; Cyathula officinalis Kuan (root) | Niu xi | 118 (9 huai niu xi, 9 chuan niu xi) | Yes |
| Aconitum carmichaelii Debx; A. kusnezoffii Reichb. (root) | Wu tou | 102 (57 chuan wu, 8 cao wu) | Yes |
| Astragalus membranaceus (Fisch.) Bge. var. mongholicus (Bge.) Hsiao (root) | Huang qi | 92 | Yes |
| Stephania tetrandra S. Moore; Sinomenium acutum (Thunb.) Rehd. & Wils.3 (caulis) | Fang ji | 88 (6 han fang ji, 2 mu fang ji)4 | Yes |
| Panax ginseng C. A. Mey (root) | Ren shen | 81 | No |
| Atractylodes lancea (Thunb.) DC (rhizome) | Cang zhu | 81 | Yes |
| Angelica dahurica (Fisch. ex Hoffm.) Benth. et Hook. f (root) | Bai zhi | 78 | Yes |
| Aconitum carmichaelii Debx (root) | Fu zi | 72 (7 sheng fu zi, 1 shu fu zi, 57 pao tian xiong, 3 da fu zi) | Yes |
| Angelica pubescens Maxim. f. biserrata Shan et Yuan (root) | Du huo | 69 | Yes |
| Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi (root) | Huang qin | 65 | No |
| Citrus reticulata Blanco (peel) | Chen pi | 60 | No |
| Prunus persica (L.) Batsch (seed) | Tao ren | 59 | No |
| Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch. (root) | Di huang | 56 (30 sheng di huang, 18 shu di huang, 3 gan di huang) | No |
| Cinnamomum cassia Presl (bark) | Rou gui | 55 | Yes |
| Gentiana macrophylla Pall (root) | Qin jiao | 54 | Yes |
| Phellodendron amurense Rupr (bark) | Huang bai | 53 | No |
| Clematis chinensis Osbeck; C. hexapetala Pall.; C. manshurica Rupr. | Wei ling xian | 45 | Yes |
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