Imperial Medicaments

Description

Imperial Medicaments–Medical Prescriptions Written for Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu with Commentary

Author: Edited by Chen Keji
Order No. 5197
ISBN-13: 9787119013367
ISBN-10: 711901336X
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Shandong Science and Technology Press
Pub Year: 1996
Pages: 323
Language: English
Size: 7.5 x 10.25
Price: $39.95

This book is complied based on the imperial medical files and commonly used formulae of the Qing Dynasty which include first-hand information concerning the diagnosis and treatments carefully worked out for emperors, empresses, imperial concubines, princes and ministers, etc. The comments were intended to present studies on the origins of some of the prescriptions, elaborations on the different uses of ingredients, and prescription-oriented discussions associated with the pulse files or comments based on modern science.