REVIEW article
Front. Pharmacol.
Sec. Ethnopharmacology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1554448
This article is part of the Research TopicReviews in Ethnopharmacology: 2025View all 23 articles
Exploring Traditional Mongolian materia medica: The Path of progress from tradition to modernity
Provisionally accepted
- 1Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
- 2Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
- 3Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Traditional Mongolian medicine boasts a long history with its integrated and unigue theoretical system. Traditional Mongolian materia medica (TMMM), as the primary substance for the treatments in traditional Mongolian medicine, was thought to be an important source for drug discovery. Although interest in TMMM has recently grown among researchers, challenges of TMMM revitalisation should be concerned: (1) inheritors and sustainability, (2) effective composition and pharmacology, and (3) preparation and standardization. The purpose of the review is to introduce the current development of Mongolian medicine and summarize the future challenges to make better use of Mongolian medicine.
Keywords: Mongolian materia medica, resources, Chemical composition, Pharmacology, challenges 1. Introduction
Received: 02 Jan 2025; Accepted: 16 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Shi, Wang, Wang, Zhang, Damda and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Chunhong Zhang, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
Minhui Li, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
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