The Handbook of Chinese Medicinal Plants: Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology 2V Set

Synergizing herbal medicine with molecular pharmacology and toxicology , this comprehensive guide combines the medicinal applications of herbs from traditional Chinese medicine with modern day scientific information. In readily accessible alphabetized format, this two volume reference contains about 1500 chemical structures of active ingredients, supported by chemical, pharmacological and toxicological data, and backed by some 8,000 literature citations. With its comprehensive listing of Materia Medica of plant orgin from the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, this work is highly relevant to research and development groups in the medicinal and pharmaceutical fields and the only one to provide such a wealth of chemical data. With beautiful, hand drawn plant illustrations, and chemical structure relevant to the chimstry, these books are one of a kind.