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Danshen, a perennial herb in the family of Labiataceae, is one of the most popular Chinese herbal medicines and frequently used as the material of dietary supplements. The medicinal part is the root with red skin and so called Dan (means red in Chinese) Shen (means valuable as ginseng). Although there are 700–900 species of genus Salvia in the world, only a few species with similar botanical features are used as Danshen. Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge is the major and legal source recorded in The Pharmacopeia of People’s Republic of China (Pharmacopoeia Committee of P. R. China, Pharmacopoeia of People’s Republic of China, Beijing: Chemical Industry Publishers, 2010) and all historical records of Chinese herbal works.
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Liu, Y. (2015). Salvia miltiorrhiza Bonge 丹参 (Danshen, Red Sage). In: Liu, Y., Wang, Z., Zhang, J. (eds) Dietary Chinese Herbs. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99448-1_29
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