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All throughout the worldwide development history of traditional healing practices, the persian, arab, greek and chinese medicines played a fundamental and important role in the use of medicinal plants. The highlights of such outgrow were mainly intensified starting from the 9th and 10th centuries AD. While an exchange of medical knowledge started to exist between China and several Arab speaking countries even before, part of such expertise had also undoubtedly been inherited from the mediterranean world, thus this east-west interchange enabled the art of healing on both extremes of the asian continent to become ever richer. Thus, it's difficult even when nowadays one tries to analyze different chinese remedies the portuguese used in medicine (16/17/18th century), since Europe (specially the southwest) had also received an earlier arab influence as well as China, thus also determining both east and west medical practices. Still, several portuguese herbal classical written works of the 18th century list such an immensity of medicinal plants of asian origin. In the process of introduction and exchange of western medical knowledge in China, one must not however discard the crucial role the portuguese Jesuits had in promoting and introducing new experimental ways as herbs were tested and utilized in their own colleges, infermeries and apothecaries, specially after the arrival of the Jesuit order to Macao and consequent construction of the Saint Paul's college (first western university in Asia). Under such historical base and through the analysis of one medicinal plant:Teucrium sp(石蚕),across this study, we purpose to trace back the mutual influence in the area of medical sciences either in China and Portugal, using this herb has a reference for the appearance of a mixed or integrated kind of medicine.This thesis is composed of 5 chapters:Chapter 1. Researching the mutual influence in traditional medicines, in Portugal and China:Historical introduction, Interchange process between western and chinese medicines started in 16th century Macao; Secret herbal formulas of the Jesuits from the St. Paul's College in Macao; The use of herbal medicines of oriental and western origin used by the jesuits; The influence this mixed medicine created by the Jesuits in Macao had in the portuguese pharmacopeas.Chapter 2. Historical background of the medicinal herb Teucrium(石蚕)Teucrium(石蚕)in the treatment of fever according with the Portuguese references; Research on Teucrium(石蚕)in the portuguese herbal medicine classical written works; Study of Teucrium(石蚕)in chinese herbal medicine classical written works; The classification and use of Teucrium(石蚕)according to contemporary chinese bibliography.Chapter 3. West clinical usage of Teucrium(石蚕)Research study on international english written articles referring Teucrium and Stachys.Chapter 4. Chinese clinical usage of Teucrium(石蚕)Research study on chinese published articles referring Teucrium(石蚕).Chapter 5. Discussion and Conclusion:Conclusion over the discussion on the classical portuguese and chinese botanical-medical knowledge over the plant, Teucrium(石蚕)Analyzing the portuguese and chinese herbal classical data, we conclude the expertise both of these medical systems hold about the plant(石蚕)may reflect that a mutual influence existed in the area of herbal medicine between China and the west, manly through an earlier interchange with arab speaking countries (during the 9th and 10th centuries A.D.), and such influence is predominately seen as result of the clinical usage of the plant.Discussion and conclusion over the contemporary scientific knowledge China and the rest of the world have concerning Teucrium sp. and Stachys sp. From the analysis of several published articles covering studies on both these medicinal plants, we come to the conclusion that regardless石蚕is classified as Teucrium sp. or Stachys sp., both hold essentially the same chemical constituents and have an extensive clinical value when dealing with a whole range of diseases considered difficult to treat such as cancer, diabetes, rheumatism, etc. Unfortunately, such species of medicinal plants among the chinese scientific community, the researchs for both Teucrium sp. and Stachys sp. has yet to flourish.We hope this research will serve to incentive the chinese scientists and doctors to recognize the clinical and scientific value of石蚕so it may become an important bibliographic key reference on the contemporary herbal knowledge, thus contributing to improve the therapeutical efficacy when dealing with various diseases forthcoming an advancement of chinese medicine.