Traditional Chinese medicines: molecular structures, natural sources and applications (Second edition.)

In laboratories around the world the active principles in traditional herbal medicines are being isolated and characterised.

A systematic effort at the Chinese Academy of Sciences is underway to identify the structure-activity relationships that result from the link between chemistry and medicine that is permitted by this data.

This book, which provides the only systematic English-language description of the chemical structures and pharmacological effects of compounds active in traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs), is now in its second edition.

The new edition provides English-language monographs on over 9000 chemicals isolated from nearly 4000 natural sources used in Chinese medicine and features the addition of in-depth bioactivity data for many of the compounds.

Effects and indications of the medicines are included.