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Criteria for selection of names for inclusion are inevitably subjective, but the intention has been to include all named processes in current commercial use anywhere in the world, and those which have been or are being piloted on a substantial scale. Obsolete processes which have been or might have been important in the past are included too. The coverage is primarily of English names but some foreign names are included. 

The next lines, the OS (Organism Species) and OC (Organism Classification), describe the species from which the protein has been derived. The OS line shows the scientific name of the organism and, if existing, the common English name. The OC lines give the taxonomic tree. SWISS-PROT, as well as the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank nucleotide sequence databases, uses the NCBI taxonomy to standardize the taxonomies of the molecular sequence databases. 

The species given are those given in the reference, and may sometimes be mentioned by their English name and sometimes by their Latin name. 

English name Citric acid TCM ID M1124 Formula C6H807 Mol.wt 192.14 CAS No 5373-11-5... 

Sulfur burns with a beautiful subdued blue flame. The old English name for sulfur was brimstone, which means a stone that burns. This is the origin of the term Are and brimstone when referring to great heat. Above 445°C, sulfur turns to a gas, which is dark orange-yellow but which becomes lighter in color as the temperature rises. 

Epinephrine, and endogenic catecholamine, is better known by its official English name adrenaline. Epinephrine is a powerful agonist of both a- and j8-adrenergic receptors. Its action is very complex and depends not only on the relative distribution of adrenergic receptors in... 

Potassium was first isolated as a free metal in 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy. It was the first alkali metal to be discovered, produced by electrolysis of potassium carbonate (potash). The element was earlier called Kalium, derived from the Arabic word qili, meaning grass wort, the ash of which was a source of potash. The element derived its symbol K from Kalium. The English name potassium came from potash (pot ash), the carbonate salt of the metal. 

This book is designed to provide researchers with easy access to information on Chinese medicinal herbs compiled from widely scattered sources in the Chinese and Western literature. Table 1 presents current available information on the major constituents and therapeutic values of more than 1800 species of Chinese medicinal herbs. The data are arranged alphabetically by the Latin name followed by the common Chinese and English names. Tables 2 and 3 present data on a total of 700 North American herbs belonging to the same species or genus as Chinese herbs, and a comparison of active ingredients and claimed therapeutic values. Appendices 1, 2, and 3 cross-reference Chinese and scientific names, and major active ingredients and their sources in the Chinese and North American herbs cited in the tables. 

Scientific Name Common Chinese and (English) Name Major Constituents and (sources) Therapeutic Values ... 

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