Southern Medicinal Plant Illustrated Dictionary

Author: Wang Yusheng
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book provides you with the native forms, medicinal parts, and plant characteristics of 558 basic southern Chinese medicinal herbs, featuring approximately 2,000 color images. It introduces the growth environments and main production areas of different herbs; the Latin scientific names, Chinese names, and common aliases of each herb, ensuring scientific accuracy in herb identification; detailed descriptions of plant characteristics, basic knowledge and intuitive methods for identifying and distinguishing various medicinal plants; specific guidance on medicinal parts, details, or material preparation; the properties, flavors, meridian tropism, main therapeutic functions, and primary applicable conditions of various herbs; the dos and don'ts and precautions for using southern herbs; a detailed table of contents, a Latin name index, and a Chinese name index.
This book includes 558 common medicinal plants found in southern China, belonging to 128 families and 389 genera, arranged in accordance with the Engler system of plant classification by family and genus, in a picture-text format. Each medicinal plant consists of two parts: text and color photographs. The text descriptions include: plant characteristics, medicinal parts, properties and meridian tropism, therapeutic functions, main active components, dosage, usage notes, and growth environments. It should be noted that due to space constraints, only the more commonly used medicinal parts of the same plant are described in terms of properties and functions. By learning the identification knowledge of each medicinal plant included in this book, readers can also easily acquire related medicinal knowledge. Additionally, the book utilizes numerous high-quality professional images to comprehensively and accurately depict the morphological features and identification characteristics of common southern medicinal plants, showcasing their beauty and diversity. Therefore, this academically rigorous teaching reference book also possesses high ornamental value. The nearly 2,000 color photographs used throughout the book are mostly taken from the medicinal plant garden of Guangdong Chemical and Pharmaceutical Vocational and Technical College and the Guangdong Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
The chief editor is Director Wang Yusheng, a senior Chinese medicinal practitioner and head of the Drug Research Department at the Guangdong Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Director Cai Yaowen, a senior Chinese medicinal practitioner and head of the Southern Medicine Research Department. As a result of years of research and academic work, this book is based on extensive and meticulous selection, features rich and beautiful illustrations, presents rigorous and insightful discussions, and provides detailed and authoritative information. The process of compiling, collecting, selecting, photographing, and writing the book spanned several years. This book serves as both an academic illustrated guide and reference for professionals in teaching, research, pharmaceutical production, and other fields, and also as a beautiful and valuable handbook for general readers seeking physical and mental well-being. With the nearly 2,000 color images and concise yet precise descriptions of each southern herb provided in this book, every reader can fully appreciate the richness, beauty, and wonder of the southern Chinese medicinal herb world, understand the magic of China's medicinal treasures, and master the basic knowledge of identifying different southern herbs, understanding their pharmacology, and using them correctly.