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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 16 East China Medicinal Plant Resources of Salvia [Abstract] Objective To investigate the East China Medicinal Plant Resources of Salvia. Methods fieldwork, specimen collection, classification and study of the combination of access to information. Results sorted out in east China 26 species of Salvia, 8 varieties, 4 variants. Conclusion rational use of the plant, provide the basis for further research. [Keywords:] in East China; Salvia; Plants Salvia (Salvia L.) as a large genus of Labiatae, the world about 1 000 species, widely distributed in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions. Of about eighty species in the country [1, 2]. This is more than three medicinal species (including varieties, forms), which Salvia S. miltiorrhiza Bunge, Salvia przewalskii Maxim S. przewalskii Maxim., Yunnan, S. yunnanensis CH Wright sage and other plants Salvia root as the medicinal, medicine is not only a long history of medicinal value and high, wide use, as the current research in the field of Chinese medicine, applied some of the most active species [3]. These generally contain Chinese herbs Danshen and other diterpene quinone tanshinone components with blood circulation, anti-bacterial anti-inflammatory and other effects [4]. In addition In addition, the blades of grass are still red S. prionitis Hance, Chinese sage S. chinensis Benth., plebeia S. plebeian R. Br. and so on, but also Chinese Herbal Medicine [2]. East China, including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Shandong, Fujian, Shanghai and other six provinces and one city within the area of #8203;#8203;the plant resources of Salvia investigation, samples and literature in the identification, based on the distribution of resources carried out a systematic study. 1 East China medicinal plant species recorded in Salvia According to field investigation and inspection of the literature [1,5 ~ 10], in east China has 26 kinds of Salvia, 8 varieties, 4 variant, belonging to 4 gener