This book is the first color-illustrated handbook of Chinese medicinal plant seeds, and it embodies more than 500 color pictures of common Chinese medicinal plant seeds, which involve 434 medicinal plants belonging to 106 families.The color pictures consist of micro photographs of the main morphological characteristics of the representative-intact-seed specimens and photographs of the longitudinal and the cross-section cutaway views of some seeds according to the actual needs as well.This book systematically describes the physiological characteristics, the morphological characteristics and the main clinical applications of common Chinese medicinal plant seeds.