A traditional and modern clinical repertory with a summary materia medica, this text offers the health practitioner a quick, concise reference to Chinese herbs used for particular ailments. Section I, the application and use index, covers 28,000 entries under approximately 50 maiin topics. Each application listed shows all the useful Chinese herbs, the context and designation of their use, application protocols where available, and the page number for the corresponding materia medica entry. Section II, the materia medica, includes 543 herbs and is presented in a table format. Each entry includes the Chinese, Pinyin, and Latin pharmaceutical name, the TCM properties, entering channels, functions, traditional and clinical applications, also commonly used dosage ranges, precautions, and potential side effects. Chinese, Pinyin and pharmaceutical names are cross-referenced in appendices.