Modern TCM Processing and Quality Control Technology

Author: Wang Qi Wang Longhu Wang Longhu
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Publishing Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book is divided into two parts: General Introduction and Specific Sections. The General Introduction covers the production techniques of traditional Chinese medicine pieces, including purification, slicing, processing (frying, scalding, roasting, calcining, steaming, boiling, method, reproduction, fermentation, sprouting, stewing, preparing frost, refining, water grinding, mixing), packaging, and storage. The Specific Sections include the processing techniques, processing effects, quality control techniques (identification, inspection, content determination), pharmacological effects, properties and meridians, functions and indications, precautions, and storage of 223 types of traditional Chinese medicine. This book aims to provide valuable references for standardizing the processing techniques of traditional Chinese medicine pieces, standardizing the quality of pieces, industrializing and modernizing the traditional Chinese medicine piece industry while preserving traditional experience and characteristics. For this purpose, it comprehensively summarizes traditional Chinese medicine processing techniques, processing purposes, processing effects, applications, and production operation principles. It also selects the essence of modern traditional Chinese medicine processing literature, based on the "Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China" (2005 Edition, Volume I), and proposes processing methods and quality control techniques for over 200 types of traditional Chinese medicine and nearly 500 pieces. Most pieces also describe multiple processing methods, striving to fully reflect the current level and development prospects of traditional Chinese medicine processing. The content of the book is concise and practical, with both depth and breadth. It can be used as a reference for the production of traditional Chinese medicine pieces, quality testing of pieces, teaching of traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy, research on traditional Chinese medicine processing, and rational prescription and use of traditional Chinese medicine in clinical practice. It can also serve as a reference book for students majoring in traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy.