The Essentials of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine

This book is a companion volume to the Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine published by the Foreign Languages Press. Its authors are all leading specialists in traditional Chinese medicine. This book is in two parts - the general introduction and separate explanations. This first part briefly summarizes the history and sources of Chinese herbal medicine, the methods of processing them, their properties, pharmacology and rules for clinical practice. The second part mainly introduces, in detail, nearly 200 commonly used Chinese herbs and their prescriptions, and patent drugs. It als explains the provenance, appearance, methods of processing, properties, efficacy, functions, pharmacology and clinical application of the drugs. Containing 180 colored illustration, this book can paly the role of a guide for the application of traditional Chinese drugs.