Practical English-Chinese Library of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Chinese Materia Medica
By Qu Jingfeng, Xie Rong, Zhang Shaohua
Publishing House of Shanghai College of TCM, 1990
Paperback, English and Chinese
ISBN 781010111x

Contents:

1. The characters and functions of traditional Chinese drugs - Properties and flavors of drugs, actions of lifting, lowering, floating and sinking, channel tropism, the toxicity of traditional Chinese drugs
2. The processing of drugs - the aim of processing, processing methods
3. The application of drugs - compatibility, contraindications, dosage of drugs, administration
4. Drugs for treating exterior syndromes - diaphoretics pungent in flavour and warm in property, diaphoretics pungent in flavor and cool in property
5. Heat-clearing drugs - heat-clearing and fire-purging drugs, heat-clearing and dampness-drying drugs, heat-clearing and blood-cooling drugs, heat-clearing and detoxicating drugs, drugs for clearing heat of deficiency type
6. Expectorants, antitussives and anti-asthmatics - drugs for resolving cold-phlegm, drugs for resolving heat-phlegm, drugs for relieving cough and asthma
7. Purgative drugs - purgatives, laxatives, drastic hydragogues
8. Drugs for eliminating dampness - antirheumatics, aromatic drugs for resolving dampness, drugs for inducing diuresis and excreting dampness
9. Interior-warming drugs
10. Drugs for regulating qi
11. Drugs for improving appetite and digestion and removing food stagnation
12. Anthelmintics
13. Hemostatics
14. Drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
15. Tranquilizers
16. Drugs for calming the liver
17. Drugs for inducing resuscitation
18. Tonics - qi tonics or drugs for replenishing the vital qi, yang tonics or yang-tonifying drugs, blood tonics, yin tonics
19. Astringenis