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COMBINING WESTERN HERBS AND CHINESE MEDICINE: A CLINICAL MATERIA MEDICA - 120 HERBS IN WESTERN USE
By Jeremy Ross
VGM and Greenfields Press
Hardback, 450 pages
£79:00
This is the second book in the Combining Western Herbs and Chinese Medicine series, and the companion volume for the previously released Principles, Practice & Materia Medica. It forms part of a wider project that includes the author's website, courses in Europe and the US and five further books to be published in the near future. While the previous volume lays down basic theory and practical techniques, and gives details of 50 herbs and 150 herbal combinations, the present volume expands on this, offering the Chinese medicine perspective on another 120 herbs used in the West, plus key data drawn from three different traditions: Chinese medicine, Western herbal medicine and modern pharmacological and clinical research.
Each one of the 120 herb monographs includes the temperature, taste and channel / organ affinity, botanical and pharmaceutical data, Chinese and Western actions and indications, as well as herb pairings organised by type of disease. In the well-researched sections on 'Traditional use in the West' the author includes fascinating data from the likes of Dioscorides, Galen, Culpeper and Gerard, amongst others. It is interesting to...