Chinaroot, china-root, or china root may refer to:
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Smilax glabra
''Smilax glabra'', sarsaparilla, is a plant species in the genus ''Smilax''. It is native to flora of China, China, the Himalayas, and Indochina.
''S. glabra'' is a traditional Chinese medicine, traditional medicine in Chinese herbology, whence ...
'', the traditional medicinal chinaroot
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Smilax china'', a related climbing plant also known as chinaroot
See also
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Smilax pseudochina'', the false chinaroot
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Smilax
''Smilax'' is a genus of about 300–350 species, found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide. They are climbing flowering plants, many of which are woody and/or thorny, in the monocotyledon family (biology), family Smilacaceae, native through ...
'', the larger genus
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Syphilis
Syphilis () is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium ''Treponema pallidum'' subspecies ''pallidum''. The signs and symptoms depend on the stage it presents: primary, secondary, latent syphilis, latent or tertiary. The prim ...
, a major disease previously treated with chinaroot
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