Briefly describes the source, characteristics, indications, and administrations of Chinese Materia Medica. Serves as reference material for the TCM practitioners and the medical researchers. - By H. Jinglun. (1994) 307pp

This handbook is edited with a view to disseminating the theory and knowledge of Chinese Materia Medica across the world, promoting academic exchanges on medical science between China and other countries. Nowadays more and more countries pay attention to Chinese traditional medicine and pharmacy. In the last one hundred years, although western medicine has developed rapidly, Chinese Materia Medica still stands steadily in the pharmaceutical field in the world and has demonstrated its great vitality, because of its firm clinical foundation, significant therapeutic effects and specific system of theory based on clinical practice. Now it is developing more rapidly than any time in the past. This handbook briefly describes the source, characteristics, indications and administrations of Chinese Materia Medica. It may serve as a reference material for the TCM practitioners and the medical researches.