This book presents 158 kinds of Chinese medicinals with beautiful coloured pictures drawn by professional artists. Every single unit of this Chinese materia medica atlas includes not only complete information of the medicinal-the source, properties, channels entered, actions, clinical indications, suggested dosage and administration, cautions and contraindications, but also includes exquisite and descriptive illustrations.

Each illustration is drawn according to the fresh samples of the medicinal and correctly identified. These illustrations necessarily have a high value for science and are a great reference. Furthermore, these illustrations also fill the gap that ancient materia medica books by lacking descriptive and colour illustrations.