A materia medica for Chinese medicine
Subtitle: plants, minerals, and animal products
By: Carl-Hermann Hempen, Toni Fischer ; translator, Velia Wortman.
Contributors: Fischer, Toni, MD.
Edition: 1st ed. in English.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780443100949
Subjects: Materia medica, Vegetable -- China -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Medicine, Chinese -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Plants, Medicinal -- Handbooks; Drugs, Chinese Herbal -- therapeutic use -- Handbooks; Medicine, Chinese Traditional -- Handbooks; Phytotherapy -- methods -- Handbooks
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc; Handbooks
Work titles: Leitfaden chinesische Phytotherapie.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Herbs that release the exterior : warming and cooling acrid herbs; title: Herbs that stop vomiting; title: Herbs that purge and drain; title: Herbs that cool heat; title: Aromatic herbs that open the orifices; title: Aromatic herbs that transform dampness; title: Herbs that drain and transform dampness; title: Herbs that dispel wind-dampness; title: Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold; title: Substances that calm the spirit; title: Herbs that regulate the qi; title: Herbs that regulate the blood; title: Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing; title: Herbs that promote digestion; title: Tonifying herbs; title: Herbs that stabilize and bind; title: Herbs that expel parasites; title: Substances for external use.