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
''Smilax china'' is a climbing plant species in the genus ''Smilax''. It is native to China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan (including Ryukyu and Bonin Islands), Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and India. It is also known as china root, china-root ...
'', 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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