Volume I is divided into two parts. Part B of volume I in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a translation of portions of chapter 3 and the complete chapter 4, devoted to pharmaceutical drugs for diseases. This volume is a continuation of volume I, part A. The first portion of chapter 3 is found in part A.
The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.
| ISBN: | 9780520397736 |
| Publication date: | 16th February 2024 |
| Author: | Shizhen Li |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 800 pages |
| Series: | Ben Cao Gang Mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History |
| Genres: |
Acupuncture Medical and health informatics Asian history Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies |