Table of Contents

The book is divided into 231 monographs describing ca. 300 significant Chinese Medicinal Plants, in alphabetical order.



Each monograph contains:

- botanical information

- medicinal application

- chemistry, incl. chemical structures of chemical - constituents

- pharmacology

- toxicology

- references, including previously untapped Chinese sources



Contains an appendix with a listing of the complete Materia Medica of plant origin from the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.

About the Author

Gerhard Eisenbrand studied Pharmacy and Food Chemistry at the University of Freiburg, Germany and gained his PhD from the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, also in Freiburg. After a research position/ period at the German Cancer Research Center, he completed his habilitation at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in the field of Toxicology and Food Chemistry. Since 1982 he has held a professorship for Toxicology and Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Reviews

"Altogether, this two volume handbook provides excellent andcomprehensive up to date science-based information on TCMmedications in a very well written and easy-to-follow way ...TheWiley-VCHeditors deserve this highest praise for the excellentlayout of the two volumes in its readily accessible alphabetizedformat." (Buchtipp, 2011) "Overall these volumes provide a thorough and unrivalled summaryof the available information pertaining to the plants commonly usedin Traditional Chinese Medicine. Whilst ease of access to theinformation on a non plant to plant' basis could beimproved, they will no doubt serve as an invaluable resource tothose interested in the fields of Traditional Chinese Medicine andthe safety of botanicals in general." (The British ToxicologySociety, 1 May 2011) "With its listing of the complete Materia Medica of plant originfrom the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, this work is highly relevant toexperimental practitioners in the medicinal and pharmaceuticalfields and the only one to provide such a wealth of chemical data."(Forbes.com, 27 October 2010)