Published by Materia Medica Department, Men Tsee Khang
ISBN No. 978-81-86419-92-2
412 Pages Paperback Inside Art Paper Colour
Authour Dr. Tsering Norbu, Translated into English by Thinley Choephel
This book is the English translation of the 1st volume of book written by Dr.Tsering Norbu in Tibetan titled quot Bod lugs gsoba rig pa039i skye dngos sman rdzas sngo 039bum kun btus quot and translated by Dr.Thinley Choephel. Its Tibetan version is published by the Materia Medica Department of Men-Tsee-khang, Dharamsala in 2015.
In this English version, the contents are arranged alphabetically and the book contains 275 medicinal plants of five classifications such as herbs, tree, Thang-sman, cereals and aromatic plants with their names, synonyms, classification, class of materia medica, habitat and altitude, part used, period of collection and method of processing, taste and potency, and medicinal uses.
In particular it illustrates the medicinal plants with 360 of their images which benefits significantly for the purpose of identification. Along with that it clearly describes the concept of quot seven essential limbs of standardizing medicinal plantsquot and the concept of potency and quality of five cosmo-physical elements, which is the foundation of every antidotes of illness, with pictures and diagrams. |
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