Chinese Materia Medica: Combinations and Applications

Xu Li

Elsevier Health Sciences, 2002 - Medical - 866 pages

This clearly written, comprehensively indexed, and reader-friendly manual contains more than 350 monographs -- each describing the functions, indications, combinations, and applications of commonly used Chinese Materia Medica.

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

• General introduction: 1
• Special note on legal restrictions affecting: 11
• Ma Dou Ling Fructus Aristolochiae: 12
• Herbs for releasing the exterior: 15
• Chapter 2: 24
• Qin Pi Cortex Fraxini: 50
• Chapter 6: 56
• Herbs for clearing heat: 63
• Chapter 3: 142
• Downwarddraining herbs: 147
• 60: 151
• Herbs for dispelling winddamp: 169
• Aromatic herbs for transforming dampness: 195
• Herbs for promoting the movement of water and percolating dampness: 211
• dampness and dissipating cold 174 Herbs for promoting the movement of water: 217
• Herbs for dispelling wind eliminating Chi Xiao Dou Semen Phaseoli Calcarati: 224
• Herbs for dispelling winddamp and Shi Wei Folium Pyrrosiae: 235
• Cuspidati: 241
• Pi Pa Ye Folium Eriobotryae Japonicae: 242
• Herbs for warming the interior: 245
• Dong Chong Xia Cao Cordyceps Sinensis: 252
• Herbs for regulating Qi: 267
• Herbs for dispersing food accumulation: 293
• Herbs for expelling worms: 305
• Chapter 12: 317
• Herbs for stopping bleeding: 319
• dispelling stasis: 323
• Dalbergiae: 338
• Herbs for warming the channels and stoppin: 346
• Herbs for quickening the Blood and dispelling stasis: 353
• 63: 392
• Herbs for transforming Phlegm stopping coughing and calming wheezing: 393
• Cha Herba Ardisiae Japonicae: 394
• 67: 446
• Substances for quieting the Spirit: 449
• Substances for calming the Liver and extinguishing wind: 467
• Aromatic herbs for opening the orifices: 497
• Supplementing herbs: 507
• Herbs for constraining the Lungs: 524
• 84: 843
• 565: 844
• Appendix 1: 857
• 127: 599
• Herbs for promoting astriction: 605
• Herbs for inducing vomiting: 639
• Substances for external application: 645
• Appendices: 665
• Index of materia medica covered by individual monographs: 669
• 497: 678
• 507: 687
• 517: 698
• 619: 701
• 521: 707
• 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
• 632: 748
• Crossreference of individual materia medica to the combinations in which they appear: 753
• 523: 754
• 531: 760
• 654: 762
• 657: 768
• Appendix7 Crossreference of applications to materia medica combinations: 777
• 660: 778
• 541: 785
• 662: 787
• 544: 791
• 549: 800
• Classification of materia medica according to commonlyseen patterns and symptoms: 815
• Index of channels entered: 837
• Index of comparisons of functions 847: 847
• Chinese titles of books and journals cited in modern research references 857: 857
• Bibliography 865: 865

Bibliographic information

• Title: Chinese Materia Medica: Combinations and Applications
• Author: Xu Li
• Translated by: Dr. Li Xu
• Contributor: Dr. Wei Wang
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences, 2002
• ISBN: 1901149021, 9781901149029
• Length: 866 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Alternative & Complementary Medicine