be used as medicine

基本解释

Can pleasure be used as medicine?
愉快可以是一剂良药吗？
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Generally speaking, Siberian tigers that had died of illness cannot be used as medicine, but their coats and internal organs can be preserved for making specimens.
普通来讲，生病死亡的西南虎是不能入药的，但是他的皮毛和内脏可以保管上去做标本。
Can also be used as medicine, medicine the spleen, stomach, liver, there is digestion of product, the effectiveness of blood stasis.
亦可入药，入药归脾、胃、肝经，有消食化积、活血散瘀的功效。
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It used to be used as a medicine, when medicines consisted of coal tars, snake venoms, opiates, alcohols, and all sorts of other ingredients with some very nasty results from their use.
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For instance, misoprostol, a drug used to induce labor, was approved as a Pfizer treatment for pain and inflammation, never as a medicine to be used in childbirth.
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Like medicine, drug discovery was described as something that used to be an art but now was a science, and thus amenable to industrialization, and well-positioned to reap the associated benefits: economies of scale, benefits of standardization, robust metrics, etc.
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