Chinese medicinal identification. An illstrated approach. 2015. 1400 figs. - In English,with some Chinese text.

Chinese Medicinal Identification: An Illustrated Approach records 429 commonly used Chinese medicinal materials (including associated medicinals), using the Chinese Pharmacopoeia (2005) combined with domestic and international market investigation as a basis for determining medicinal nomenclature. For each medicinal, details are provided on nomenclature, origin, harvesting and post-harvest handling, functions and properties, macroscopic characteristics, and decoction pieces. Chinese Medicinal Identification can be referenced via a Chinese stroke order index, a Pinyin index, and indexes organized by Latin Pharmaceutical names and Latin binomials. The authors emphasize the experience-based differentiation of Chinese medicinal materials, which is a treasure of China's cultural heritage that has been inherited and systematized, combining the technical terms derived fromexperience in differentiation with a modern scientific perspective. At the same time, the authors draw upon a foundation of years of field research and experiments related to medicinal materials, synthesizing information on trade, literature, and techniques, dissecting each detail. Chinese Medicinal Identification visuallyillustrates the art and science of macroscopic identification of medicinal materials in a way that is easy to learn, easy to remember, and easy to disseminate, supplementing the insufficient state of are explained for each medicinal:The name in Chinese, Pinyin, and Pharmaceutical Latin from the 2010Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China and other authoritative sources./ The origin of the medicinal including the zoological or botanical family names. The main entry formedicinals with multiple origins is the commonly used variety/-Production Region is noted as are the primary distributions of medicinals gathered in the wild / The traditional harvesting and processing methods are noted for each medicinal/ The properties and functions are noted. These include: nature, flavor and traditional actions/ Macroscopic features are exemplified in color photographs, including the traditional indications of quality/ Decoction pieces are illustrated with color photographs detailing the distinguishing featuresof each medicinal's processed form/ The eighth section complete the that have separate entries