Newly Compiled Practical English-Chinese Library of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Science of Chinese Materia Medica

Newly Compiled Practical English-Chinese Library of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Science of Chinese Materia Medica
Compiler-in-Chief: Tang Decai
Translators-in-Chief: Xun Jianying
Compiled and Translated by Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Published by Publishing House of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, SHANGHAI
Language: Chinese-English
Paperback, 787mm X 1092mm, 378 pages
ISBN 7810106589 more info

Chinese medicinal herbs are used in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) as the main means to prevent and treat diseases and maintain health. As one of the basic subjects of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Materia Medica centers the elaboration and study on the theories and clinical practice of Chinese medicinal herbs. This book, under the guidance of the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine and according to practical and effective principles, systematically introduces the basic theories concerning traditional Chinese Materia Medica, methods and principles in using Chinese medicinal herbs as well. The whole book consists of General Introduction, Specific Discussions and Appendix.

General Introduction mainly introduces common knowledge about Chinese medicinal herbs, including properties, processing, compatibility, contraindication, dosage and administration of Chinese medicinal herbs.

Specific Discussions, containing 236 kinds of Chinese medicinal herbs (including 10 kinds of added medicines), is divided into 16 chapters according to their specific efficacy. Each sort of Chinese medicinal herbs is illustrated in the order of formal name, source, applying parts, habitat, collecting and processing methods, properties, efficacy and application, usage and dosage as well as cautions, the efficacy and application of which are the focal points. The category of explanation particularly lays emphasis on the comparison between some Chinese medicinal herbs which have similar actions, application of added medicines, and other items in need of further explanation, etc.. All of names, sources and clinical dosage appeared in the book are quoted from the Pharmacopoeia the people's Republic of China (1995 Edition) as standard.

Appendix contains index convenience, herb Latin names. For convenience the index of Latin names is arranged in the order of alphabets.

Practical English-Chinese Library of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Chinese Materia Medica

Practical English-Chinese Library of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Chinese Materia Medica
By Qu Jingfeng, Xie Rong, Zhang Shaohua
Publishing House of Shanghai College of TCM, 1990
Paperback, English and Chinese
ISBN 781010111x more info

In traditional Chinese medicine, the different characters of drugs are employed to treat diseases, rectify the hyperactivity or hypo activity of yin or yang, and help the body restore its normal physiological functions, consequently curing the diseases and restoring health. The various characters and functions of these drugs concerning medical treatment include drugs' properties, flavours, actions of lifting, lowering, floating and sinking, channel tropism, toxicity, etc. The theory of characters and functions of traditional Chinese drugs is based on the theories of yin and yang, viscera, channels and collaterals, and treatment principles of traditional Chinese medicine, and has been developed and summed up throughout a long history of medical practice. This theory provides the basis for drug analysis and application.

Contents:

1. The characters and functions of traditional Chinese drugs - Properties and flavors of drugs, actions of lifting, lowering, floating and sinking, channel tropism, the toxicity of traditional Chinese drugs
2. The processing of drugs - the aim of processing, processing methods
3. The application of drugs - compatibility, contraindications, dosage of drugs, administration
4. Drugs for treating exterior syndromes - diaphoretics pungent in flavour and warm in property, diaphoretics pungent in flavor and cool in property
5. Heat-clearing drugs - heat-clearing and fire-purging drugs, heat-clearing and dampness-drying drugs, heat-clearing and blood-cooling drugs, heat-clearing and detoxicating drugs, drugs for clearing heat of deficiency type
6. Expectorants, antitussives and anti-asthmatics - drugs for resolving cold-phlegm, drugs for resolving heat-phlegm, drugs for relieving cough and asthma
7. Purgative drugs - purgatives, laxatives, drastic hydragogues
8. Drugs for eliminating dampness - antirheumatics, aromatic drugs for resolving dampness, drugs for inducing diuresis and excreting dampness
9. Interior-warming drugs
10. Drugs for regulating qi
11. Drugs for improving appetite and digestion and removing food stagnation
12. Anthelmintics
13. Hemostatics
14. Drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
15. Tranquilizers
16. Drugs for calming the liver
17. Drugs for inducing resuscitation
18. Tonics - qi tonics or drugs for replenishing the vital qi, yang tonics or yang-tonifying drugs, blood tonics, yin tonics
19. Astringenis

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