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Item No: BK11070
Title: Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica
Author: Dan Bensky Steve Clavey Erich Stoger with Andrew Gamble
Publisher: Eastland Press
Language: Cloth,Fully illustrated, 1311 pages
ISBN: 0-939616-42-
The new 3rd edition of Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica is designed to give practitioners the information they need to practice Chinese herbal medicine with greater understanding and confidence. It provides a wealth of new information -¨C more than twice the content of the previous edition -- and practical insight into more than 530 of the most commonly used herbs in the Chinese pharmacopoeia.
Drawing from a wide range of sources, both classical and modern, this edition provides unparalleled perspective and detail that goes far beyond what is available elsewhere to the Western practitioner. Among its many features:
* Herbs are grouped in chapters by function, with expanded summaries and tables for contrast and comparison. Each herb is identified by its pharmaceutical, pinyin, botanical, and family names, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English common names.
* Key characteristics are provided at the beginning of each entry, along with dosage, properties, channels entered, and relevant cautions and contraindications. This provides a quick overview of essential information.
* Actions and indications are integrated with important combinations that illustrate the range of an herbĄ¯s functions, with references to appropriate formulas. This presents a more three-dimensional picture of how each herb is actually used.
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