While there are more than 6,000 Chinese medicinals described in the Chinese medical literature on herbal medicine, only about 260 of these are typically used in day to day clinical practice. This book describes the clinical uses of this core repertoire of Chinese medicinals--the ABCs of the art of practicing Chinese herbal medicine
Table of Contents Preface
1.Exterior-resolving Medicinals
2.Heat-clearing Medicinals
3.Phlegm-transforming, Cough-stopping, Panting-leveling Medicinals
4 Draining & Precipitating Medicinals
5 Dampness-dispelling Medicinals
6 Interior-warming Medicinals
7 Qi-rectifying Medicinals
8 Dispersing & Abducting Medicinals
9 Worm-expelling Medicinals
10.Stop Bleeding Medicinals
11.Blood-quickening, Stasis-dispelling Medicinals
12.Spirit-quieting Medicinals
13.Liver-leveling, Wind-extinguishing Medicinals
14.Orifice-opening Medicinals
15.Supplementing & Boosting Medicinals
16.Restraining & Astringing Medicinals
Bibliography
General Index
Latin Index
Pinyin Index
Formula Index
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