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The synonymy traces continuity of drug use across different naming traditions and languages. It links common botanicals used in the different traditions, and provides regional data about their names and wild propagation.
Drawing on 24 modern drug dictionaries of Chinese and Malay medicine (Link), it matches the botanical names found in these dictionaries. Where agreed scientific terms for those plants have changed, it provides the current accepted name.
All botanical names have been reviewed by Kew Gardens' Medicinal Plant Name Services (MPNS). Over 18,000 citations are now cross-linked between our data sets.
The Synonymy also provides scientific synonyms used for those plants in literature of the past, allowing for comprehensive searches on the plant in existing literature.
Where available, it provides regional data on wild propagation, as well as on regional naming and dialect conventions.
Contains 42,860 primary and alternate drug names in Chinese and 3,612 drug names in Malay.
It allows for visual exploration of the drug name data.
It links the drug terms to other online databases on plant botany, biodiversity, and plant biochemistry.