Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VII: Woods

Volume VII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 34 through 37, devoted to woods.

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 rese...