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Shiu-Ying Hu was born on February 26, 1908 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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An Enumeration of Chinese Materia Medica
(Traditional Chinese medicines, such as the practice of he...)
Traditional Chinese medicines, such as the practice of herbal medicine and acupuncture, are becoming widely accepted alternative medical treatments in the medical field outside China. Nevertheless, the terminology and usage, many of which are not even understood among present day Chinese, always pose a challenge to the practitioner. This lexicon makes possible the speedy identification of Chinese materia medica. Approximately 2,000 species of plants, 135 species of animals and 110 kinds of minerals and other chemicals used in traditional Chinese medicine are included. Listed alphabetically are the English, Chinese, scientific and pharmaceutical names of the Chinese drugs. This book has been a useful reference for natural and medical scientists since its publication in 1980. About 50 new Chinese drugs have been added to this new and revised edition. Second Edition.
https://www.amazon.com/Enumeration-Chinese-Materia-Medica-Second/dp/9622018033/?tag=2022091-20
Food Plants of China by Shiu-ying Hu
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FIZOCO6/?tag=2022091-20
Shiu-Ying Hu
Edit Profile胡秀英
also known as
Holly Hu
Shiu-Ying Hu or Hu Xiuying, was a Chinese botanist. She was an expert in the plant genera of Ilex (Aquifoliaceae), Hemerocallis (Amaryllidaceae), and Panax (Araliaceae). She studied the families Orchidaceae, Compositae, and Malvaceae, and Chinese medicinal herbs and food plants. She was given the nickname "Holly Hu" by her colleagues for her extensive work with holly plants.
Education
Shiu-Ying Hu received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Ginling Women's College (now part of Nanjing Normal University) and Master of Science in Biology from Lingnan University (now part of Sun Yat-sen University). In 1946 she traveled to the United States to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in Botany at Radcliffe College. In 1949 she became the first Chinese woman to receive a doctoral degree in Botany from Harvard University.
Career
After earning her Doctor of Philosophy, Shiu-Ying Hu worked as a research botanist at the Arnold Arboretum. In 1968 she took the post of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biology at CUHK, which she held until her retirement in 1975. She continued to carry out research during her retirement both at the CUHK Herbarium and the Harvard University Herbaria. Over the course of her career she produced over 160 academic treatises, collected over 30,000 specimens, and published the 800-page encyclopedia Food Plants of China.
On 22 May 2012, Shiu-Ying Hu died at the age of 102 from kidney failure caused by pneumonia at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong.
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An Enumeration of Chinese Materia Medica
(Traditional Chinese medicines, such as the practice of he...)
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An Enumeration of Chinese Materia Medica
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John Williams attributes his piece Tree Song for Violin and Orchestra in a large part to Shiu-Ying Hu. The first movement of the piece is entitled "Dr. Hu and the Meta-Sequoia". He described the following experience in his note for the premiere in 2000: "During our stroll we casually paused in front of a large tree that I hadn't looked at closely enough to recognize immediately. Pointing to the tree, Dr. Hu explained that this tree was the oldest metasequoia in North America and that she had planted it in the late 1940s using seeds she had brought with her from China. I was thunderstruck by this coincidence, and when I told her of "my" metasequoia in the Public Garden she informed me that the younger tree I loved so much was also one of her children."
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1946 - 1949
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1968 - 1975
