basic and clinical) in the People's Republic of China."
So begins this late Nixon-era publication from the National Academy of Sciences. The Red Guards were muttering off in the provinces,
China was now "in", acupuncture was being "studied" in the US and many things Chinese were now politically correct. This delegation
was sent to the PRC to check out the uses of herbs within Chinese medicine, struggling to its feet after nearly a decade of intellectual
and political nihilism, and it offers insights into that time and into how western pharmaceutical folks viewed Chinese herbs. It
examined in detail the verifiable effects of over 250 chinese herbs, while missing totally the energetics of therapy. I ate the book up
when it first came out, and, with so many more "correct" works since published, the TCM community seems to have forgotten this
arcane but sensible first peek into Chinese Herbal Medicine.
Herbal Pharmacology in the People's Republic of China - 255 pages, bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) file - 740K (11/03)Sturtevants Edible Plants of the World
STURTEVANTS EDIBLE PLANTS OF THE WORLD Edited by U. P. Hedrick with updated botanical names by Michael
Moore (9/03)
Edward Lewis Sturtevant (1842-1898), farmer, botanist, physician and author, was one of the giants of his time in the science of
agriculture. His "Notes" were edited after his death by Hedrick and published in 1919 by the New York Agricultural Experiment
Station in Geneva, N.Y. I have appended current botanical names (A mixture of BONAPS and Willis, 8th Edition), deleted the 3,000
footnotes but retained the 68 pages of bibliography.
775 pages, bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) file - 1.6MBritish Herbal Manuals
Prescriber and Clinical Repertory of Medicinal Herbs by Lt. Col. F. Harper-Shove (1938) (8/03)
A minor masterpiece, long out of print, Harper-Shove assembled the first British repertory for herbalists. It follows the same model and
organization as the classic homeopathic repertories. I've had it around since the early 1970's, and have frequently referred to it over the
years. The complex layout and poorly cleaned type necessitated (for my own sanity) scanning the main text as bitmapped images...the
rest is as true text. The layout is 11 x 81/2, two pages across...appropriate for printing.
Part 1 - 112 pages (two across) bookmarked .pdf file 2.3M
Mind, Head, Eye, Ear, Nose, Face, Mouth, Throat, Stomach, Abdomen, Liver, Spleen, Rectum, Urinary, Genitalia, Respiration
Part 2 - 110 pages (two across) bookmarked .pdf file 1.6M
Chest, Back, Extremities, Skin, Sleep, Fever, General, Specific Remedies, Contraindications, Synonyms
Herbal Manual by Harold Ward (1936)115 page bookmarked .pdf file 288K. (7/03)
A lovely pocket manual I've used for years. As with many others from the era, the primary influence, besides English and continental
herb traditions, was the later Thomsonians. The manual has a good Anglo-centric history of herb usage and 153 concise herb
monographs.
The Working Man's Model Family Botanic Guide by William Fox, M.D. , 23rd edition (1924) (8/03)
This book may have been the most widely used herb book of its era in Great Britain. A peculiar mixture of American Thomsonian and
physiomedicalist philosophy, "Muscular Christianity," and common sense, the Foxes (three generations were involved in the various
editions) took their effort seriously, similar in intent to the American populist medical "everyman" manuals of the second half of the
19th century. It is a refreshing glimpse into late Victorian alternative, and by inference, Standard Practice Medicine.
Part 1 - Materia Medica, Health - 91 page bookmarked .pdf file, 1M, 70 illustrations
Part 2 - Diseases - Their Cause and Cure, Formulas, etc. - 148 page bookmarked .pdf file, 970KEclectic Medicine, Materia Medica and Pharmacy - classic texts
Why do I keep putting up these Eclectic works? In 1990 I visited the Lloyd Library in Cincinnati, Ohio, where, in the basement, I
found the accumulated libraries of ALL the Eclectic medical schools, shipped off to the Eclectic Medical College (the "Mother
School") as, one by one, they died. Finally, even the E. M.C. died (1939) and there they all were, holding on by the slimmest thread,
the writings of a discipline of medicine that survived for a century, was famous (or infamous) for its vast plant materia medica, treated
the patient and NOT the pathology, a sophisticated model of vitalist healing every bit as usable as Traditional Chinese Medicine and
Ayurvedic medicine...and molding in front of my eyes. Homeopathy survives, and still reprints its classic texts...it doesn't need help.
The Eclectics do.
History of the Vegetable Drugs of the U.S.P. (1911) 560K, 182 pages, bookmarked acrobat (.pdf) fileMichael Moore - SW School of Botanical Medicine Home Page
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