Traditional Chinese Medicine Wellness: Having a Great Chang-geong at Home

Author: Zhang Guoxi
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Publish Date: 2006-04-15
Features: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a gift from nature, with a wide variety of species and a long history. TCM health preservation is the crystallization of wisdom accumulated by the Chinese nation over thousands of years, representing an active health-preserving philosophy that emphasizes holistic balance, prevention, and health maintenance. The Practical "Smart Buying Secrets" in Herbal Health Preservation meticulously depict the appearance of commonly used medicinal materials, introducing their external features, color, cross-section, taste, origin, efficacy, indications, dosage, storage tips, authenticity identification, and precautions, helping the public choose high-quality herbs and providing them with accurate medication information! The book also compiles medicinal materials suitable for improving common symptoms, along with over 500 herbal dishes, allowing readers to easily nourish their bodies and maintain health in their daily lives.
The first two lectures of the book introduce the theory and characteristics of TCM application, as well as how to select tonifying herbs, providing middle-aged and elderly readers with some understanding of TCM so they can make informed choices when selecting tonifying herbs. This enables them to choose medications based on their physical constitution, avoiding misuse that not only wastes money but also worsens health.
Lectures three to seven introduce commonly used tonifying herbs in the order of blood replenishment, Yang replenishment, and Yin replenishment, primarily targeting middle-aged and elderly populations with predominant deficiency syndromes. These lectures cover botanical family, origin, variety, methods for identifying the quality of herbs, efficacy, indications, usage and dosage, precautions, and storage methods.
Lectures eighteen and nineteen introduce the health-preserving knowledge of several commonly used non-tonifying herbs, more suitable for middle-aged and elderly individuals with a combination of deficiency and excess. The methods of introduction are similar to those for tonifying herbs.
Lecture twenty introduces traditional Chinese medicine, empirical prescriptions, and Chinese medicine formulas and patent medicines for various diseases, facilitating their selection.
Lecture twenty-one classifies TCM based on modern pharmacological knowledge for reference.
The book consists of twenty-one lectures, covering the theory and characteristics of TCM application, how to select tonifying herbs, the introduction of commonly used tonifying herbs in the order of blood replenishment, Yang replenishment, and Yin replenishment, as well as the health-preserving knowledge of several commonly used non-tonifying herbs.