Ten Lectures on the Use of Medicinals

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Since its first appearance in 1977, the Ten Lectures have enjoyed perennial popularity in the PRC and Taiwan as the most concise manual of medicial therapy available.Introduces 300 medicinals & explains their use in simple practical terms. (2003) 711pp

This text comes from a popular lectures series first published in China’s Barefoot Doctor’s Manual Journal. The author, Jiao Shu-De, described over 300 medicinal substances in practical terms, providing copious detail on clinical applications from his own personal experience. The lectures present medicinals grouped according to primary functions, e.g., Warm and Hot Medicinal, Blood-Quickening Stasis-Transforming Medicinals, Effusing and Dissipating Medicinals, Qi-Rectifying Medicinals. Within these categories individual medicinals are presented with discussions that include basic information such as taste, temperature, and entering channels, functions and indications, specific practical applications, and representative formulas for a given function. Each discussion also includes information about specific preparations and dosages, and comparisons with other medicinals having similar or related actions.

The book presents information about Chinese medicinals which has not been previously available in English-language material medica. For example, Jiao’s comparisons and contrasts of medicinals that have similar functions, and his discussions of a specific medicinal’s actions in the context of well-known and frequently-used formulae, will help practitioners make better clinical decisions. Within practical discussions of medicinals agents, his explications of fundamental theory allow all levels of student or practitioner to gain increased understanding. His clear, practical, and comprehensive presentations of medicinals familiar to many practitioners will cast the information in a new light and allow for better clinical agility.

The lasting popularity of Jiao’s work in China is attributable to the fact that is has won the acclaim of practitioners and scholars as well as that of barefoot doctors. By the clarity and practicality of its presentation it is hoped that this work will gain the appreciation of English speakers studying Chinese medicinal therapy, and that the comprehensiveness and depth of its content will win in the lasting place in the West that it has already attained in China.

Date reviewed

24/01/2004

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