Shennong tasted hundreds of grasses and found herbs during the legend period. The appearance of prescription should be so early if single drug was regarded as single-item recipe.

传说时代神农尝百草发现药物，如将单味药视为单方，那么方剂的出现就很早了。

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Visit all the reputable doctors and search for private recipe, observation and collect drug samples.

遍访有名望的医生，搜求民间的验方，观察和收集药物标本。

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Objective To observe the clinical effect of self-formulated Tongdatang serial recipe(TDT)in treating antipsychotic drug-induced galaetorrhea-amenorrhea syndrome(GAS).

目的观察自拟通达汤系列方治疗药源性闭经泌乳综合征的临床疗效。

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In this era of drug-spending cutbacks and safety panics it would seem like a recipe for failure: a drug that helps only a fifth of patients and might even have a rare, dangerous side effect.

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Unfortunately for Hyseq, a patent on a gene is only really valuable if the gene is a recipe for a protein that can itself be used as a drug.

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