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Red Yeast Rice (Monascus purpureus)
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Red Yeast Rice (Monascus purpureus) is retained as a structured identity record in the Traditional Chinese Medicine collection. Its medical, efficacy, dosage, safety, citation, and product claims are withheld until accountable human review is complete.
- Category
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Publication state
- legacy_published
- Review state
- unreviewed
- Record key
- red-yeast-rice-monascus-purpureus
- Source name
- Red Yeast Rice (Monascus purpureus)
- Record type
- compound
- Alternate names
- Monascus purpureus, RYR, Hong Qu, Hongqu, Ang-kak, Chinese Red Rice, Fermented Red Rice
- External identity candidate
- Q15401777 (mapping pending review)
- Record updated
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