| 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 In traditional Chinese medicine, the different characters of drugs are employed to treat diseases, rectify the hyperactivity or hypo activity of yin or yang, and help the body restore its normal physiological functions, consequently curing the diseases and restoring health. The various characters and functions of these drugs concerning medical treatment include drugs' properties, flavours, actions of lifting, lowering, floating and sinking, channel tropism, toxicity, etc. The theory of characters and functions of traditional Chinese drugs is based on the theories of yin and yang, viscera, channels and collaterals, and treatment principles of traditional Chinese medicine, and has been developed and summed up throughout a long history of medical practice. This theory provides the basis for drug analysis and application.Contents:- 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
- The processing of drugs - the aim of processing, processing methods
- The application of drugs - compatibility, contraindications, dosage of drugs, administration
- Drugs for treating exterior syndromes - diaphoretics pungent in flavour and warm in property, diaphoretics pungent in flavor and cool in property
- 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
- Expectorants, antitussives and anti-asthmatics - drugs for resolving cold-phlegm, drugs for resolving heat-phlegm, drugs for relieving cough and asthma
- Purgative drugs - purgatives, laxatives, drastic hydragogues
- Drugs for eliminating dampness - antirheumatics, aromatic drugs for resolving dampness, drugs for inducing diuresis and excreting dampness
- Interior-warming drugs
- Drugs for regulating qi
- Drugs for improving appetite and digestion and removing food stagnation
- Anthelmintics
- Hemostatics
- Drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
- Tranquilizers
- Drugs for calming the liver
- Drugs for inducing resuscitation
- Tonics - qi tonics or drugs for replenishing the vital qi, yang tonics or yang-tonifying drugs, blood tonics, yin tonics
- Astringenis
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