Language: Chinese with Latin names index
ISBN/ISSN: 7541617830
Published on: 2003-01
Hardcover
Yunnan provinces is well known for its largest number of natural medicinal material resources and is famous for its special natural conditions with the reputation as “ Kingdom of Plant” and “ Hometown of Medicinal Materials ”
Yunnan is located in the southwest frontier region of China. It is situated at 21°8′～29°15′N and 97°31′～106°11′E. It is about 861.9 km across from the east to the south, and about 900km from the south to the north with an area of 383000km2.. ……
The investigation of the resources of traditional Chinese medicine in Yunnan between 1984 and 1988 has shown that there are 6559 kinds of medicinal materials, about 51percent of all kinds of plants in China , belonging to 315 families, 1814 genus and 6157 species of plants, and 148 families, 266 genus, 372 species of animals, and 30 kinds of minerals.
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With more and more recognition on application of the natural materials and accelerating modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Development, we hope to take pictures for 6000 medicinal materials growing in Yunnan and gradually publish the other volumes of the Illustrated Handbook for Medicinal Materials in Yunnan, and provide reference books and CD which are well organized and illustrated with perfect pictures for researcher and amateur to recognize as much as possible the medicinal resources of Yunnan.
The first volume of the book contains 508 species of natural medicinal materialse each species with a color photo and about 600 words illustration on morphology, distribution, medicinal part, herborization, processing, characteristics, taste and function, modern research, scientific and Chinese Pinyin name index. The systematic arrangements for pteridophytes follows renchang Qin’s system, and that for gymnosperms and angiosperms follow Wanjun Zheng;s system and Hutchinson’s system respectively. The book is well organized and is a nice reference showing the sate of resources of Yunnan.
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