Modern Chinese Medicine Cultivation and Processing Handbook

Author: Ran Maoxiong
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Publish Date: 1999-05-01
Features: The book is divided into an introduction and three parts: Upper, Middle, and Lower. The introduction elaborates on the basic concepts, classification, characteristics, historical overview, and development directions and approaches of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) cultivation, breeding, and processing technology, as well as TCM resources. The Upper Part focuses on "Cultivation Technology of Medicinal Plants," discussing the theoretical foundations, cultivation of medicinal fungi, tissue culture and soilless cultivation of medicinal plants, harvesting and processing techniques, preparation, preservation, and storage techniques. It provides detailed cultivation techniques for 235 common medicinal plants, classified by their medicinal parts. The Middle Part covers "Breeding Technology of Medicinal Animals," discussing the fundamental theories and methods of medicinal animal breeding, as well as harvesting, processing, preparation, and preservation techniques. It provides detailed breeding techniques for 26 common medicinal animals, classified by the animal taxonomy system. Each medicinal plant (animal) cultivation (breeding) technique is introduced under the following headings: overview, morphological characteristics, biological characteristics, cultivation (breeding) techniques, tissue culture, harvesting (collection), local processing, storage, quality requirements, and modern research and development. The Lower Part focuses on "Extraction and Separation Technology of Active Components in TCM," discussing the concepts, categories, and common active components of chemical constituents in TCM, the relevance between the extraction and separation of active components and their development and utilization, as well as the research methods and steps. It covers preliminary experiments, identification principles, common extraction and separation techniques, identification methods, and introduces the extraction and separation techniques and identification methods of 26 categories of common TCM active components, with a focus on alkaloids and glycosides. Each category of TCM active component is further illustrated with examples, classified by structure, physicochemical properties, extraction and separation, qualitative identification, content determination, and development and utilization. At the end of the book, there are 7 appendices and an index listing the Chinese names, Pinyin names, Latin names, and English-Chinese names of chemical components in TCM. This book is suitable for personnel engaged in TCM cultivation, breeding, TCM material management, TCM pharmaceutical production, and related industries, as well as professionals involved in TCM teaching, research, and pharmaceutical inspection.