The Clinical Manual Of Chinese Herbal Patent Medicines

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The Clinical Manual of Chinese Herbal Patent Medicines by Will Maclean and Kathryn Taylor is the go-to desk reference for practitioners and serious students of herbalism. This hefty 736-page second edition distills over two decades of clinical experience into clear Western-disease indications, dosage guidelines, and safety notes for hundreds of ready-made pills, tablets, and tinctures.

Inside you’ll find quick-reference tables, pinyin-to-brand cross-indexing, and concise monographs that link traditional syndromes to modern biomedical uses—ideal when you need fast answers between patients or while stocking an apothecary. The authors’ practical commentary flags contraindications, herb-drug interactions, and quality markers that online summaries often miss.

This personalised copy carries gentle reader traces—about twenty pages with discreet highlighting and one margin note—leaving the vast majority of the text clean and ready for your own annotations. Binding remains tight, pages are uncreased, and the smoke-free volume sits squarely on the shelf, priced for a working clinic rather than a collector’s case.

Add a trusted, field-tested guide to your natural-medicine library without the new-book premium; grab this 2003 Pangolin Press paperback before the next practitioner does.