Materia Medica Essentials

Author: Wang Ang
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Publish Date: 2000-10-04
Features: The book is divided into two parts: General Principles of Medicinal Properties and Specific Analysis of Medicines. The General Principles of Medicinal Properties provide an overview of the general characteristics of medicinal properties, flavors, meridian tropism, ascending and descending, floating and sinking, etc. The Specific Analysis of Medicines is categorized into eight sections: Herbs, Woody Plants, Fruits, Grains, Vegetables, Metals, Stones, Earth, Birds and Animals, Fish, Reptiles, and Insects, and Humans, containing 479 commonly used clinical medicines. For each medicine, the book first provides a concise summary of its functions and classifies them into ten categories such as promoting, unblocking, tonifying, draining,,, etc. It then briefly introduces the medicinal properties, flavors, meridian tropism, functions, main indications, contraindications, and the characteristics of the medicinal materials, as well as their processing methods. Additionally, it explains the connections between medicines, symptoms, etiology, and pathogenesis.