Essence of Chinese Formulas--Essence of Famous Chinese Medical Practitioners 3: Essence of Famous Chinese Medical Practitioners

Author: Wang Mianzhi
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Publish Date: 1998-02-01
Features: Traditional Chinese Medicine's prescriptions and herbs have a long history. As far back as the primitive society, due to various limitations, people relied on gathering plants, fruits, hunting birds and animals for food, which inevitably led to certain medicinal effects or poisoning, and even death. On the other hand, sometimes these very conditions also brought about relief or even a complete cure for existing ailments. Prescribing herbal formulas is key to the practice and self-study of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This book, covering from ancient times to the present, focuses on the methods, techniques, and profound principles of herbal prescription composition. To facilitate learning and application, it selects four hundred well-known formulas, breaking them down item by item for analysis. The book examines the causes and treatments, selects formulas based on the principles, and demonstrates methods through formulas, elucidating the practical wisdom of famous practitioners' prescriptions in a way that general readers can grasp. It also provides readers with the composition, functions, (treatment indications), and modern experimental research data of each herb, supplemented with analyses from famous practitioners and evaluations of effective formulas. It serves as an authoritative and convenient tool for self-study in herbal prescription composition.