Modern Color Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica

Author: Gao Xuemin, Zhang Deqin and Zhang Jianjun
Language: Chinese with detailed English abstracts
ISBN/ISSN: 7806624759
Published on: 2006-01
Hardcover

It is bilingual hard cover book with vivid drawing pictures. The author is a well-known expert on traditional Chinese medicine. So the book is authoritative in the field.
1000 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine are selected placed in its virtue order including both Chinese and English explanations, the index is made to find the items easily. Every item is given by its formal name, alternative name, where it comes from, its original plant, ecological distribution, medical shapes and properties, pick and process, its chemical element, pharmacodynamic etc, in 21 chapter.