Traditional Chinese medicine : scientific basis for its use /
Traditional Chinese medicine has a strong scientific basis, but the science of these important preparations is often rarely discussed. Western approaches often simplify traditional Chinese medicine to drug discovery in Chinese plants, however, the majority of traditional Chinese medications use comp...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Royal Society of Chemistry,
2013.
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| Series: | RSC drug discovery series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Traditional Chinese medicine has a strong scientific basis, but the science of these important preparations is often rarely discussed. Western approaches often simplify traditional Chinese medicine to drug discovery in Chinese plants, however, the majority of traditional Chinese medications use complex mixtures of plant extracts, rather than single purified drugs. The combination of different extracts is based on yin, yang and chi theories, which are often poorly understood in the West. Yin and yang are known to be the balance of agonists and antagonists, whereas chi derives from signalling pr. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1782624937 1849737851 9781782624936 9781849737852 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/9781849737852 |