Identification of Authenticity of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author: Yan Zhihui
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Publish Date: 1996-09-01
Features: This book includes 116 main species, along with their counterfeit products, confusable products, misused products, and customary products, totaling 865 species, with 589 illustrations. For these species, according to the medicinal parts, they are categorized as rhizome and root-like, grass, flower, fruit and seed, bark, vine and wood, fungus, mineral, and animal. For each species (including counterfeit products, confusable products, and customary products), the book provides introductions on their sources, plant morphology, identification (including characteristics, tissue, and microscopic identification), main components, properties, functions, and therapeutic effects. The emphasis is placed on the content under the identification section. After each category, a comparative table of identification key points is provided. This book is suitable for workers in the fields of traditional Chinese medicine cultivation, collection, distribution, pharmaceutical inspection, scientific research, and teaching for study and reference.