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The Scientific Basis of Chinese Integrative Cancer Therapy, Including a Color Atlas of Chinese Anticancer Plants by Terry L. Holcomb-Halstead and Bruce W. Halstead
This useful text features an extensive discussion of the history, development, and science of Chinese medicine, and a summary of the authors’ fact-finding research trip to countries and hospitals that use Chinese herbs in the treatment of cancer. Central to the book is a substantial section of 103 colored botanical plates, constituting an atlas of the most important anticancer plants discussed in the book. Each plate comes with a detailed legend containing a succinct summary of the plant’s pharmacological and/or photochemical properties
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The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine by Huang Ti
The Neijing is one of the most important classics of Taoism, as well as the highest authority on traditional Chinese medicine. Its authorship is attributed to the great Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor, who reigned during the third millennium BCE. This new translation consists of the eighty-one chapters of the section of the Neijing known as the Suwen, or “Questions of Organic and Fundamental Nature” (The other section, called the Lingshu, is a technical book on acupuncture and is not included here.). The original text of the Neijing presents broad concepts and is often brief with details. The translator’s elucidations and interpretations, incorporated into the translation, help not only to clarify the meaning of the text but also to make it a
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