Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IX: Fowls, Domestic and Wild Animals, Human Substances

Volume IX in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 47 through 52, devoted to fowls, domestic and wild animals, and human substances.

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 med...