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Release : 1894
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Book Synopsis Ben cao gang mu (Vols 1-6). by :
Download or read book Ben cao gang mu (Vols 1-6). written by . This book was released on 1894. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zhibin Zhang
Release : 2014-12-12
Genre : Reference
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Book Synopsis Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1 by : Zhibin Zhang
Download or read book Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1 written by Zhibin Zhang. This book was released on 2014-12-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4,500 historical illness terms.
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Release : 2003
Genre : Materia medica, Vegetable
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Book Synopsis Compendium of Materia Medica by :
Download or read book Compendium of Materia Medica written by . This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shizhen Li
Release : 2024-01-09
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part B by : Shizhen Li
Download or read book Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part B written by Shizhen Li. This book was released on 2024-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Shizhen Li
Release : 2024-01-09
Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part A by : Shizhen Li
Download or read book Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part A written by Shizhen Li. This book was released on 2024-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I is divided into two parts. Part A of volume 1 in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a translation of chapters 1 and 2 and portions of chapter 3. Chapters 1 and 2 are devoted to introducing the history of materia medica. Chapter 3 is devoted to pharmaceutical drugs for diseases. Chapter 3 is continued, along with chapter 4, in part B of volume I. 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.
