Chinese Medicinal Plants, Herbal Drugs and Substitutes: An Identification – Digital Instant Dowload.

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 184246387X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1842463871
• Author:  Christine Leon (Author), Lin Yu-Lin (Author)

The product of fifteen years of collecting activity throughout China, this book offers the first comprehensive, botanically authoritative, and practical illustrated identification guide to Chinese medicinal plants and drugs and their substitutes. The herbal drugs included in the book are officially recognized in the Chinese pharmacopoeia, with an eye toward drugs that are common in international trade, as well as those recognized by Western medical associations. The book is laid out to allow quick and easy cross-referencing of official and substitute species and will be ideal for those without botanical information training. A joint project of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, it will be indispensable for anyone working with traditional or herbal remedies.

Table contents:

1. How to use this book
2. CITES-listed species included in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2015
3. Glossary of Medical Terms
4. Glossary of Plant Terms
5. Abbreviations
6. Drug Accounts
7. rhizomes, roots, tubers and bulbs
8. aerial parts and whole plants
9. stems and woods
10. stem-barks and root-barks
11. leaves
12. flowers and flower parts
13. fruits, seeds and other fruit parts
14. Bibliography