National Essential Medicines: Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author: National Medical Products Administration, Safety Supervision Department
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: This book is divided into 22 chapters and includes 1,789 national basic traditional Chinese medicine preparations (including varieties adjusted out in 1998). It provides introductions to each medicinal variety, covering prescription composition, efficacy and indications, dosage forms and specifications, explanation of prescriptions, usage and dosage, precautions, and storage. The book is primarily intended for medical workers, medical and health administrative departments, research institutions, medical colleges, healthcare institutions, and management personnel of pharmaceutical enterprises.
1. The drug names include both Chinese characters and Pinyin names.
2. The book is classified according to efficacy and treatment principles, such as antipyretic agents, purgative agents, etc., totaling 22 categories. To facilitate clinical drug selection, each chapter is further divided into subcategories with different emphases within the same efficacy. For example, blood-activating agents are divided into blood-activating and blood-stopping categories, with blood-activating agents further subdivided into blood-activating, invigorating blood circulation, cooling blood and resolving stasis, regulating menstrual blood, resolving stasis and eliminating nodules, and treating injuries and pain. This ensures accurate clinical drug selection and reflects the principle of classifying prescriptions according to treatment methods.
3. Each category includes an introduction, mainly covering the primary efficacy of the drugs, etiology and pathogenesis, main indications for different efficacy classifications, and precautions for using these drugs.
4. Multiple dosage forms of a single drug are included under the primary dosage form, with specifications unrestricted.
5. For a few varieties with incomplete prescription information in the submitted materials, no explanation of prescriptions is provided. Incomplete items are temporarily omitted.
6. Based on the 2000 National Basic Drug List (Traditional Chinese Medicine), the original classification has been adjusted as necessary according to actual conditions.
7. Varieties adjusted out in the 1998 National Basic Drug List are also introduced in this book, marked with an asterisk () after their names.