Chinese Materia Medica: Combinations and ApplicationsThis clearly written, comprehensively indexed and reader-friendly manual is a great new title that will help all TCM practitioners and students. Comprehensive monographs contain: details of main ingredients, taste and nature, channels entered, functions and indications, common dosage, precautions and contraindications. Unique tabular format lists provide "at-a-glance" accessibility. Summary tables in each chapter help you obtain quick overviews of the material covered. Unique coverage on toxicity and legal status. Comprehensive list of appendices and indices -- listings are by pinyin, pharmaceutical, and English names for easy reference. |
Contents
Herbs for releasing the exterior | 17 |
Herbs for releasing the exterior | 18 |
Chapter 4 | 20 |
Xiao Hui Xiang Fructus Foeniculi Vulgaris 260 | 23 |
33333 | 32 |
Qin Pi Cortex Fraxini | 50 |
Herbs for clearing heat | 63 |
Ma Bo Sclerotium Lasiosphaerae | 94 |
Herbs for nourishing the Heart and quieting | 469 |
Herbs for clearing heat and drying dampness | 473 |
129 | 495 |
Aromatic herbs for opening the orifices | 497 |
Supplementing herbs | 507 |
Herbs for constraining the Lungs | 524 |
130 | 601 |
Herbs for promoting astriction | 605 |
Ma Chi Xian Herba Portulacae Oleraceae | 117 |
Chapter 3 | 142 |
Downwarddraining herbs | 147 |
Ding Xiang Flos Caryophylli | 159 |
Herbs for dispelling winddamp | 169 |
Aromatic herbs for transforming dampness | 195 |
Herbs for promoting the movement of water and percolating dampness | 211 |
Chapter 2 | 240 |
Pi Pa Ye Folium Eriobotryae Japonicae | 242 |
Chapter 7 | 243 |
Herbs for warming the interior | 245 |
Herbs for regulating Qi | 267 |
Herbs for clearing heat | 269 |
Lai Fu Zi Semen Raphani Sativi | 273 |
Herbs for dispersing food accumulation | 293 |
127 | 302 |
Herbs for expelling worms | 305 |
| 317 | |
Herbs for stopping bleeding | 319 |
Herbs for clearing heat and draining fire | 321 |
dispelling stasis | 323 |
Herbs for quickening the Blood and dispelling stasis | 353 |
Herbs for transforming Phlegm stopping coughing and calming wheezing | 393 |
Cha Herba Ardisiae Japonicae | 394 |
Lychnophorae | 419 |
Pang Da Hai Semen Sterculiae | 426 |
Zi Semen Lepidii seu Descurainiae | 436 |
Chapter 14 | 446 |
250 | 447 |
Substances for quieting the Spirit | 449 |
Chapter 15 | 462 |
Substances for calming the Liver and extinguishing wind | 467 |
Herbs for inducing vomiting | 639 |
Substances for external application | 645 |
Appendices | 665 |
Index of materia medica | 667 |
Index of materia medica covered by individual monographs | 669 |
| 701 | |
Index of other materia medica | 709 |
Selective glossary of TCM terms used | 719 |
Listing of functions in English pinyin and simplified Chinese characters | 727 |
Crossreference of functions to individual materia medica | 735 |
333423 | 742 |
326 | 743 |
333 | 749 |
Crossreference of individual materia medica to the combinations in which they appear | 753 |
635 | 754 |
337 | 757 |
653 | 761 |
347 | 766 |
657 | 768 |
Crossreference of applications to materia medica combinations | 777 |
660 | 778 |
662 | 787 |
Classification of materia medica according to commonlyseen patterns and symptoms | 815 |
43 | 827 |
69 | 833 |
Index of channels entered | 837 |
86 | 839 |
| 847 | |
Chinese titles of books and journals cited in modern research references | 857 |
Bibliography | 865 |
Common terms and phrases
abdomen abscesses acid alleviating pain Anemarrhenae applications applications Functions bleeding Blood caused Channels entered chest Chinese Chuan Clearing heat cold Combinations Combinations and applications Common dosage contains coughing damp-heat dampness decoction deficiency diarrhoea diseases dispelling dispersing dissipating Dong effect external eyes fever Functions Functions and indications Heart Herba herbs Hua Flos Huang Huang Radix inhibited Intestines Jiang Jiao Journal Kidney legal status Lian Ling Liver Lung Main ingredients Materia Medica Medicine Modern research nature Officinalis pain patterns Phlegm promoting Properties Taste Qian Radix relieving toxicity Rhizoma root Semen Shan Shen Radix Sheng sores Spleen stagnation Stomach stopping supplementing sweating swelling swollen syndrome throat Tian toxicity treat urination vomiting warm wind Xiang Yang Zhong Zi Fructus Zi Semen