Herbs / 中药

322 bilingual records — Category, nature and flavour, traditional role and safety notes. No doses, no indications, no formulas.

Free to download and reuse. 322 records, both languages, one row per record. Released under CC BY 4.0 — commercial use included. The only condition is credit and a link back.

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Fields

Field	What it holds
`slug`	Slug (stable ID)
`chinese`	中文
`english`	English
`pinyin`	Pinyin
`latin`	Latin name
`category_en`	Category (EN)
`category_zh`	Category（中文）
`nature_flavour_en`	Nature Flavour (EN)
`nature_flavour_zh`	Nature Flavour（中文）
`traditional_role_en`	Traditional Role (EN)
`traditional_role_zh`	Traditional Role（中文）
`safety_note_en`	Safety Note (EN)
`safety_note_zh`	Safety Note（中文）

Field names are ASCII and stable. Every English field has a parallel Chinese field, so you can filter on either language.

How to cite this dataset

Meridian Bridge. TCM Knowledge Base — Herbs / 中药 [data set]. https://lieke-ai.com/mb/data/herbs.html (accessed 2026-10-18).

The same string sits inside the JSON file under meta.citation. A BibTeX entry for the collection as a whole is on the open data page.

What this data is not

It is a reference: names, categories, classical source attributions, and what the historical literature records — in English and Chinese, side by side.

It is not medical advice, and not a treatment guide. There are no doses anywhere in this file, no indications, and no protocol for using anything.

Nothing here is a claim about what any substance or technique does to a disease.

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