September 11th, 2010 
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This is a clinical handbook for practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that provides quick and easy reference to the selection of herbs for treatment and their action alone and in combination. This is a handbook from two eminent teachers from the Nanjing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine who have between them accumulated over 60 years of clinical practice and teaching. They emphasizes how to combine herbs and differentiate between single herbs and… More >>
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The merit of this book is in providing in a central location describing many traditional Chinese herbs and the ailments they claim to treat. Having said this, there is little else of merit. Much of the text describes unsubstantiated claims, at variance with the modern scientific understanding of human biology.
Maybe some of these herbs and treatments have true theraputic value. But the onus of proof is on their proponents.
Rating: 2 / 5
Although i am just a beginning student of Chinese Medicine, i really appreciated the clear and concise differentiations made between single herbs
and formulas.
The preface states the book has five parts:
“Part 1 points out similarities and differences between herbs of similar nature or action.
Part 2 describes combinations of two or more herbs that commonly appear as a group within larger formulae
Part 3 analyzes individual herbs according to their actions on the Zang Fu
Part 4 sets forth guiding principles in formulating prescriptions according to the various treatment methods, and compares formulae with in each such category.
Part 5 deals with specific pathological patterns or disease, demonstrating the clinical use of formulae with case histories.”
Every group of herbs comes with an illustration of anatomical figures with single herbs placed on the area of the body that it acts upon. There are
also charts of differentiations for single herbs and charts of comparision
of the formulae. As a beginner these were all of a great help to me.
Rating: 5 / 5
Could not be written any better. Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this article to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!