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Abstract

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have been extensively documented over the past thousands of years 1 . The written records of Ayurveda, the Indian medicinal system, originated before the 1 st millennium BC 2 . However, logical drug discovery from plants commenced at the beginning of the 19 th century, when Friedrich Serturner successfully extracted an analgesic and sleep-inducing agent from the Opium poppy, themorphium (morphine) that, was named after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. He thoroughly discussed isolation, crystallization,