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The difference between the names of chemical drugs and traditional Chinese medicines (their respective characteristics)
most chemical drugs are synthesized by chemistry, so the scientific names are generally named in Latin, English names follow Latin names, and Chinese names are mostly transliterated from English names or named separately according to their components, such as Aspirin, Latin name: Aspirin, English name: Aspirin, Chinese name: Aspirin, and common chemical name: acetylsalicylic acid.
Traditional Chinese medicines are mostly named according to their properties, legends or medicinal functions. For example, licorice is named because of its sweet taste, and Bupleurum is named because of Chai Xing. People surnamed Hu found that the top ten contributions were named because of their ten medicinal functions, and some were directly named, such as scorpion.