Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III: Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs
Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs.

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.
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Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III: Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs
Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs.

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.
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Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III: Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs

Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III: Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs

Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III: Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs

Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III: Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs

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Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520385016
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 03/29/2022
Series: Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History , #3
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 756
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director at the Institute for Chinese Life Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Table of Contents

1 Prolegomena 7

1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature 7

1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu 11

1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 -1593) 21

2 Notes on the Translation 23

3 Wang Shizhen's preface of 1590 27

4 Translation of the Ben Cao Gang Mu $$$ Chapters 12-14 31

Herbs I, Mountain Herbs, Chapter 12 31

Contents 34

Entries 36

Herbs II, Mountain Herbs, Chapter 13 272

Contents 272

Entries 274

Herbs III, Fragrant Herbs, Chapter 14 455

Contents 455

Entries 458

Appendix 720

5 Weights and measures 720

5.1 Measures of capacity 720

5.2 Measures of weight 720

5.3 Measures of length 721

5.4 Measures of the size of pills 721

6 Lists of Substances 722

6.1 Identification of pharmaceutical substances of plant origin mentioned in BCGM Chapter 12 - 14 in passing. Herbs with an entry of their own are marked with their entry number 722

6.2 Substances discussed in chapters 12 -14 in a separate entry. Listed in alphabetical order of their proper pin yin names with their popular English names and references to their entry 743

6.3 Currently accepted scientific identification of substances discussed in BCGM Chapter 12 - 14 in a separate entry. Listed in alphabetical order, with reference to their entry 748

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