Digitized Standards for Chinese Materia Medica was compiled by the Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission. This bilingual Digitized Standards for Chinese Materia Medica is to date the most authoritative and comprehensive digital compilation of the Chinese national drug standards in context of information age and internet plus. It is launched to provide a digital support platform for domestic and overseas users to use and research Chinese Materia Medica quality standards such as Chinese Pharmacopoeia in a systematic manner.
The Digital Standards for Chinese Materia Medica includes the varieties of Chinese Materia Medica recorded in the volume I of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia and its Supplements, as well as contents of supporting series of Chinese Pharmacopoeia such as An Illustrated Handbook on Microscopic Identification of Chinese Crude Drugs, A Colored Identification Atlas of Chinese Materia Medica and Plants, Thin-layer Chromatography Atlas of Chinese Crude Drugs, High Performance Liquid Chromatography Atlas, and contains a total of 618 monographs for Chinese Materia Medica, and 3,452 various specialized illustrations for characters, microscopic identification and assay etc. The text of the Standards is available in both Chinese and English, and allows for a contrastive bilingual display. In addition, the software user interface is provided in multiple languages such as Chinese, English, French, German, and Japanese. It also collects records of the standards for traditional Chinese medicine (phytomedicine) that are maintained in the contemporary United States Pharmacopeia, European Pharmacopoeia, Japanese Pharmacopoeia, Indian Pharmacopoeia, Vietnamese Pharmacopoeia, and Korean Pharmacopoeia. The entire platform incorporated the concepts of “big data” and “internet plus” in its design and development in order to provide one-stop solutions and value-added information services associated with drug standards for the entire industry.