Comprehensive Collection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Pairs

Author: Xu Qinghua
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Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: This book is divided into two parts: General Introduction and Specific Topics. The General Introduction provides comprehensive and principle-based discussions on the meaning, composition, functions, and applications of medicinal pairs. The Specific Topics lists 600 medicinal pairs, categorized into fifteen major groups based on their efficacy characteristics, such as Expelling External Pathogens, Inducing Diarrhea, Harmonizing, Clearing Heat, Dispelling Summer Heat, Dispelling Cold, Tonifying, Regulating Qi, and Regulating Blood, etc. It offers detailed discussions on the functions and characteristics of single herbs, their combined effects, primary indications, and clinical applications. The book is comprehensive, systematic, and practical, serving as a systematic monograph on medicinal pairs. It holds significant reference value for clinical practice and is suitable for reference and reading by Chinese medicine practitioners, clinical physicians of both Chinese and Western medicine, as well as students of Chinese medical institutions.