Data overview

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58,872

Plant taxa with Chinese names

88.7%

reconciled with WCVP/WFO

134,065

Flora treatments

81,353

Historical formulas (pre-1911)

483,203

Formula ingredient records

737,489

Species–formula links

43,922

Plant use records

1,424

Himalaya field-survey records

2,195

Economic Flora records

7,617

Ethnobotanical papers

923,501

Searchable synonyms

Historical formulas by period

Pre-Qin		5
Han		502
Wei–Jin & N–S		240
Sui–Tang & Five Dynasties		3,862
Song		32,561
Jin–Yuan		4,293
Ming		22,025
Qing		17,865

Analyses

Number of formulas, distinct drugs and linked species by historical period

Species shared among data types (UpSet plot, top 20 intersections)

Co-occurrence network of frequent drugs (PMI > 0.5, Louvain communities)

Agreement between the legacy Euclidean distance and the composition-based Jaccard similarity

Himalaya survey: similarity of species used by ethnic groups and composition of use categories

Indexed papers per year and cumulative number of species covered

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