Practical Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology: Medicinal Herbs

Practical Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology: Medicinal Herbs, written by Geng Junying et al
English, paperback, 200 pages
New Word Press, Beijing, 1991
ISBN 7800051196 more info

This book is the third volume in the "Practical Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology" series. With a view to practicability and convenience for clinical application, this book provides detailed and essential information as required for the construction of herbal prescriptions on the respective properties, tastes, therapeutic functions and the directions of action on specific channels and collaterals of more than three hundred most commonly used medicinal herbs. For students and new practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, the "Indication & Combinations" and "Cautions & Contraindications" sections are particularly valuable. They provide useful empirical tips on how to combine two or more hers to promote therapeutic effectiveness and minimize toxicity and how to avoid the neutralization of the curative effects or serious side effects of incompatible herbs.

Dr. Geng Junying brings over twenty-five years of experience to this, his recent work on traditional Chinese medicine. He has been teaching, researching, and conducting clinical practice since 1964. His publications in Chinese include Studies of the Five Tastes of Herbs, Contraindications and Interdependence in Herbal Formulas, and Chinese Moxibustion herapy

Contents

Herbs

1. Herbs That Release Exterior Syndrome
2. Herbs That Clear Heat
3. Purgative Herbs
4. Herbs That Expel Wind and Dampness
5. Aromatic Herbs That Transform Dampness
6. Herbs That Benefit Urination and Drain Dampness
7. Herbs That Warm the Interior
8. Herbs That Regulate Qi
9. Herbs That Relieve Food Stagnation
10. Herbs That Expel Parasites
11. Herbs That Stop Bleeding
12. Herbs That Invigorate Blood and Resolve Blood Stagnation
13. Herbs That Resolve Phlegm and Stop Cough and Asthma
14. Herbs That Tranquilize the Mind
15. Herbs That Pacify the Liver and Subdue Endogenous Wind
16. Herbs That Open the Orifices
17. Herbs That Tonify Deficiencies
18. Astringent Herbs

Anticancer Medicinal Herbs

Anticancer Medicinal Herbs (English edition)
Author of Chinese Edition: Chang Minyi
Translator in Chief: Bai Yongquan
Hunan Science & Technology Publishing House, 1992
Hardcover
ISBN 7535710239 more info

Longhua Hospital of Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medical College treated 300 cases of primary cancer simply with medicinal herbs and the total effective rate was found to be 51%, with the longest survival period being 11 years. Judged by pathological classification and observation at different stages, squamous cancer had the highest effective rate - 55.86%. In addition, the hospital selected 60 patients with advanced squamous cancer and randomly divided them into two groups of 30 patients, a group treated with traditional Chinese medicinal herbs and a group treated with chemotherapy. The survival period of the herbal group was 465 days while that of the chemotherapeutic group was 204 days, and the survival rates after 12 and 24 months were 66.7% and 13.3% for the herbal group and 33.3% and 3.3% for the chemotherapeutic group respectively, according to a report in Journal of Integrated Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine Vol 2, 1985.

In this book, Dr Chang Minyi introduces 236 kinds of herbs that have been carefully selected in the light of the scientific standard, and describes the practical value of anticancer herbs and herbal prescriptions used commonly both at home and abroad. He developed a complex prescription known as the "Anticancer Single Blade Sword" which has been administered to over 5,000 patients since 1981. Most of the patients who had taken the prescription have commented that it is definitely effective in relieving the pain caused by cancer and improving the condition and the survival period of the patients. Dr. Chang has included his theory of and experience with the Anticancer Single Blade Sword in the book. This has increased the substantial contents for popularization and improvement of the prevention and treatment of tumors with traditional Chinese medicine. It really provides good reference for medical personnel who are engaged in teaching, research, prevention and treatment of cancer, and for cancer patients and their relatives.

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