International Collation of Traditional and Folk Medicine, Vol 2

the long version

Traditional folk medicine practices in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea - all located in Northeast Asia - are comparable. Since different usage of a herbal medicine may reflect cultural or regional differences, a detailed collation of the folk knowledge of traditional medicine can help to identify common applications derived from different empirical knowledge as well as variations in appreciation of the value of the same herb in different cultural settings. This second volume of a series of books continues with the objective of collating relevant information for showing the differences and sim.