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Chinese Herbal Medicine Paperback – February 12, 1987

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Over a span of 5,000 years, China has established the world's most extensive pharmacopoeia of medicinal herbs. Through empirical knowledge of nature, practical application, and gradual reasoning based on experience, a system of herbal medicine has evolved that is as highly developed as Western medicinal science. Chinese herbal medicine is a subject surprisingly neglected in current literature. The highly illustrated Chinese Herbal Medicine fills this void, providing the general reader with insight into one of the world's most complex and little-known sciences. It examines the natural flora and fauna on which herbal medicine is based and explains the philosophy that propelled its development. Describing the art and practice of herbal medicine as applied today, it also highlights the potential to combine modern Western diagnosis, and traditional Chinese treatment to form a complete and effective system for both preventative and curative medicine. Chinese Herbal Medicine is based on research provided by contemporary experts, among them Dr. Huang Powen, an herbal physician and acupuncturist, and Dr. Hong Yixiang, a kung fu master and licensed herbal doctor, both based in Taiwan. The text includes a color-illustrated list of 200 major herbs detailing their use, and provides herbal recipes for some common ailments.
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    180 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Shambhala
  4. Publication date
    February 12, 1987
  5. Dimensions
    8.25 x 0.5 x 11 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0877733988
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0877733980
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Daniel Reid is a leading Western authority on traditional Chinese medicine and Taoist healing practices and has studied and practiced Chinese medicine for over twenty years. He is the author of The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing (Shambhala, 1993, 1994).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Shambhala; First Edition Thus (February 12, 1987)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 180 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0877733988
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0877733980
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.5 x 11 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent condition
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Excellent book in excellent condition! Arrived on time and well packaged. Great information and herbal recipes. Glad to add to my library.
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Jd
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating book.
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Amazing insights into TCM. I've been a collector of plants, shells, rocks and bugs all my life. This book shows how Chinese doctors have been using many for medicine for hundreds of years. Not so much a book about doseges but more for those intrested in the general actions of these herbs and things.
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Rose Bud
4.0 out of 5 stars Colleagues loved it!
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2012
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So far, I bought and gave away about 7 copies of this classic to folks who believe in Chinese herbal medicine as a "calmer" and slower way to heal the body w/o undo damages or side effects.

With all the "new" drugs coming out w/ the "blessing" of FDA, one wonders which side is the FDA is on.
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Karen S
5.0 out of 5 stars Glad I read it!
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2014
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Very interesting book if you are curious about Chinese medicine, as I was. I'm glad I read it. I wish there had been more in a way to tell at a glance the main therapeutic uses nearby each item named in Chapter VI for quick lookup. Otherwise, you have to read through each individual item to eventually find what you are looking for. But all in all, it provides great value for on the surface information, not so much in depth.
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Rae Pond
5.0 out of 5 stars A definite need for Chinese herbal medicine!
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2016
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I wasn't sure what to expect about this book since I couldn't see the inside when I purchased it, but it is definitely going to help me learn about Chinese herbal medicine. Great writing with excellent information about Chinese herbal medicines.
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Wendy S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book! Nice to have this knowledge in case you need to doctor yourself.
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I love collecting these old books and you can never learn enough. This book is has pictures in it as well as the descriptions. Lots of history in it to learn.
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Mauricio C. Quintana
3.0 out of 5 stars Good overview, little else...
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2000
It is definitely a good overview, and if they gave prizes for design of Chinese Medicine Books, this one woud've won them all. The full color format and abundant pictures and drawings make this book a beautiful gift, but that's about it. Like Reid's other books, it is intended as an informational book for laypersons, with a couple of interesting recipes and well-narrated anecdotes and folktales. You can see in CHM, which predates Reid's other books, that his ideas and convictions regarding chinese "self-healing" and energy medicine were not yet developed. The historical overview of Chinese Medicine is very good. The descriptions of practice, however, are confusing, cursory, and/or brief.
There are a couple of mistakes, too. The page facing the full-page reproduction of Hua To, the physician reputed with the discovery and first use of anesthesics, has pictures of the Five Animal Frolic qigong, erroneously described in the picture quotation as Taijiquan. The Five animal frolic predates taijiquan, and although similar, they should not be confused. The bibliography is very short, and not very good. The recipes are a sampling, not a balanced diet, and the index is neither complete nor useful. The last part of the book is a "materia medica", the practical use of which is negligible. The book is indeed not for practitioners of TCM, and this part attests to it. The selection of items for this section, is an arbitrary mixture of the most common and the most exotic. There is no detailed information on use or preparations of the materials listed, although some of them are used in the recipes described afterwards. The glossary and the categorization of the herbs and other substances is correct, though.
Reid is a very opinionated author, although a knowledgeable one, and he doesn't restrain himself much on his views. There is a comparative description of two physicians, where Reid contrasts Taoist and Confucian outlooks on the practice of medicine. It's a bit simplistic and stereotypical to me, but perhaps it can be useful and informative as a sampling of how medicine is practiced in non-communist China. This book is beautifully designed, and I keep it mostly for the pictures, which are well-chosen and illustrating. If you are looking for information on TCM, though, Ted Kaptchuk's The Web that has No Weaver is a better, deeper introduction to the subject.
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Tracy Stringfellow
4.0 out of 5 stars Had to have it, and ened up really enjoying it.
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2014
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I had to read this for a class. It turned out to have nice pictures and very user friendly. I would recommend it.
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