Digital Herbarium for Chinese Medicines (DHCM) Website
The DHCM is established by the Government Chinese Medicines Testing Institute (GCMTI) of the Department of Health through digitalisation of Chinese medicines specimens into a digital collection. High-resolution pictures and related data of 220 commonly used Chinese materia medica (CMM) and their source plants are currently included at the DHCM. It is the first online herbarium of its kind that provides comprehensive information on Chinese medicines, and also the first in the world using photogrammetry to produce three dimensional (3D) images on traceable CMM specimens.
Users of the DHCM may use the name of CMM or plants, their medicinal uses, collection locations, or medicinal parts as keywords to search for information of the Chinese medicines. The uses, precautions on proper use, and storage information of each CMM are provided. The scientific information such as chemical information, microscopic slides, DNA sequences and 3D images are also provided for some CMM.
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[Acknowledgement to the Department of Health for providing material for the story.]
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