Full Description
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.
Contents
CONTENTS1. Prolegomena1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 - 1593)2. Notes on the Translation 3. Wang Shizhen's preface of 1590 4. Translation of the Ben Cao Gang Mu Chapters 12 - 14Herbs I, Mountain Herbs, Chapter 12Herbs II, Mountain Herbs, Chapter 13Herbs III, Fragrant Herbs, Chapter 14Appendix5. Weights and measures5.1 Measures of capacity5.2 Measures of weight5.3 Measures of length5.4 Measures of the size of pills6. Lists of Substances6.1 Identification of pharmaceutical substances of plant origin mentionedin BCGM ch. 12 - 146.2 Substances discussed in chapters 12 - 146.3 Currently accepted scientific identification of substances discussed in BCGM ch. 12 - 14
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