Chinese Materia Medica: Combinations and Applications

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Elsevier Health Sciences, 2002 - Health & Fitness - 866 pages
This 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
Chapter 12
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
319
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
Index of comparisons of functions
847
Chinese titles of books and journals cited in modern research references
857
Bibliography
865
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