Overview
- Provides important historical, scientific and clinical data for numerous traditional Chinese dietary herbs
- Written by native experts on the topic
- Includes color illustrations and botanical names for all the herbs
- Provides scientific coverage of the benefits of herbs as used in traditional Chinese medicine
- Includes important pharmacological, toxicological, clinical and chemical data for each herb
- Offers current information for these important nutraceuticals
- Contains photos as well as the Chinese Characters for all the herbs discussed
- Chemical formulae for the active ingrediants are provided
- Links the ancient Chinese experience to Western medicine
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (88 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Root, Rhizome, Tuber, and Bulb Materials
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About this book
This work presents up-to-date information on chemical, pharmacological, clinical studies and historical uses of common dietary Chinese herbs. Authored by native experts in the field, the reader is introduced to each herb with a brief chronological review of Chinese literature on dietary herb uses, with chapters dedicated to each selected herb including color photos for each herb. In addition, Chinese characters as well as the Latin botanical name indices, and chemical structures for the known active compounds are also provided. The clear layout examines the health benefits that have been studied for centuries, including current clinical and toxicological data. A wide range of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) herbs are investigated for their suitability into daily diets for maintaining general wellness or disease prevention. In the past decades, natural health products, dietary supplements, functional foods, or nutraceuticals have emerged in the West due to the increasing demand for non-pharmaceutical healthcare products. Traditional Chinese Medicine disease prevention and treatment incorporates the use of foods, and herbal medicine in an integrated manner, and thus the dietary Chinese herbs in used in TCM for thousands of years could be sources for developing new, effective, and safe ingredients to capture the rapidly expanding opportunity in the global market place.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dietary Chinese Herbs
Book Subtitle: Chemistry, Pharmacology and Clinical Evidence
Editors: Yanze Liu, Zhimin Wang, Junzeng Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99448-1
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Wien 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-211-99447-4Published: 29 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-1919-8Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-211-99448-1Published: 18 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 802
Number of Illustrations: 134 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
Topics: Food Science, Clinical Nutrition, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Medicinal Chemistry