This Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica offers contemporary medicinal, pharmaeutical, and natural product chemists as well as practitioners of homeopathic and alternative medicines authentic, concise monographs on the 320 herbs used in 80% of medicinal formulations in traditional Chinese medical practice.

Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica also provides an overview of traditional Chinese medicine as a framework for understanding how herbal medicines fit within an integrated approach to health and well-being.

Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica is a lavishly illustrated atlas of the 320 used most frequently in traditional Chinese medical practice.

Each substance is profiled authoritatively in monographs that provide:

• pharmaceutical, botanical and English names
• flavor properties and channel tropisms
• functions
• clinical uses and major combinations
• dosage and administration
• precautions

Contents

• Introduction
• Illustrated Materia Medica
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Latin (Pharmaceutical) Name Index
• English Name Index

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