Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part A by Shizhen Li & Paul U. Unschuld

Description

Volume I is divided into two parts. Part A of volume 1 in theÂBen cao gang muÂseries 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.

TheÂBen cao gang muÂis 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.

ISBN: 9780520395152
Author(s): Shizhen Li & Paul U. Unschuld