PRINCIPAL REMEDIES OF CHINESE MEDICINE

A brief characterization of the basic aspects of Chinese medicine is presented. Included are the basic data of botany, information on chemical composition, pharmacodynamics and application of the medicinal plants and remedies of animal or mineral origin required in Chinese medicine, as well as a Chinese-Russian-Latin glossary of the names of over 200 medicinal plants and remedies of animal and mineral origin. The most common and, according to the findings of Chinese physicians, most effective prescriptions used in a number of diseases, for example, in hypertension, bronchial asthma, diabetes, encephalitis, etc., are discussed. Unedited rough draft trans. of mono. Osnovnye Lekarstvennye Sredstva Kitaiskoi Meditsiny, Moscow, 1960, p. 5-411.