Chiu Nien-yung, a senior specialist in the graduate school of Chinese Medicine at China Medical College, points out that Chinese medicine began with roots and bark, whose medicinal use was recorded at least as early as 400 B.C.
中國醫藥學院中國藥學研究所技正邱年永指出，中藥的起源，原先就從草根樹皮開始。