160 Essential Chinese Herbal Patent Medicines

This book is a textbook on Chinese herbal ready-made or so-called patent medicines. Organized according to the same categories as Chinese formula and prescription books, it discusses the ingredients, functions, indications, dosages, and contradiction of 160 Chinese patent medicines.

There medicines have been selected not only for their clincial utility but also because they are free from heavy metals, pesticides, western pharmaceuticals, and endangered species. In addition, the author discusses how to combine these medicines with others in this book in order to treat more complex pattern presentations.

In this book, 149 commonly-used traditional Chinese prescriptions are presented and attached with 55 modified prescriptions. Each prescription is described under the topic of composition, action, annotation and clinical application. The prescriptions selected are commonly adopted in clinical practice with definite therapeutic effect. This book may serve as a teaching material and as a reference for... Read More...

Giovanni Maciocia is a most highly respected author, lecturer and practitioner of Chinese medicine, in the West and in China. His new book applies the theory of Chinese medicine to the treatment of specific diseases with acupuncture and herbs. This practical text is relevant to practitioners and students of Chinese medicine. Maciocia integrates extensive research and study from ancient and modern C... Read More...

At TCM colleges in China, undergraduates learn a basic repertoire of between 50 and 100 herbal formulas. This includes one or two formulas from each of 21 major categories. By learning to modify this core group of formulas with additions and subtractions, one will have a basic repertoire of formulas for most clinical occasions. This book is not meant to replace or compete with Bensky & Barolet's Ch... Read More...