Language: Chinese with scientific nomenclature
This collection contains illustrations of common medicinal plants in southern China and 1 060 kinds of folk medicine. Each medicinal plants is accompanied by colorful portrait photos. The corresponding figure includes Chinese name, scientific name, aliases, family name, key identifying points, medicinal parts. The new field guide format of the 2nd edition has clear images, and concise content, and, while informative, is easy to carry and to navigate.
The book is for teachers, medicine students, and other professional practising in this field and can be used as a reference book, but also provides awareness and fast, intuitive guidelines to identification of southern herbs aimed at medicine, horticulture, forestry, and biology professionals and the general herbal enthusiasts.
Summary in Chinese:
本图鉴共收载了华南地区常见药用植物兼民间草药1060种。这些药用植物按照植物分类系统和植物学名顺序编排,每种药用植物均附有色彩斑斓的写真照片。与图对应的包含了植物中文名、拉丁学名、别名、科名、识别要点、药用部位、功能主治七项信息。本图鉴版式新颖、图片清晰、内容精练、图文并茂,同时兼具信息量大、便于携带和查阅的特点,具有较高的知识性、实用性和科普鉴赏的价值。
本书适合医药等专业的师生作为野外实习参考用书,也可为医药、园艺、农林、生物专业人士以及广大中草药爱好者提供认知和鉴别南方药草的快捷、直观指引。