Book ID: CBB592964103

Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III: Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs (2022)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Unschuld, Paul Ulrich
Li, Shizhen
Nappi, Carla Suzan
Achim, Miruna
Andretta, Elisa
Di, Lu
Journals
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
History of Science
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Korean Journal of Medical History
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Publishers
University of California Press
Princeton University
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Harvard University Press
University of Washington Press
Concepts
Materia medica
Medicine, Chinese traditional
Natural history
Encyclopedias (history)
Translations
Plants
People
Li, Shizhen
Hurtado de Mendoza, Diego
Léon y Gama, Antonio de
Louis XIV, King of France
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
18th century
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
19th century
20th century, early
Places
China
Mexico
Tibet
France
Italy
Japan
Institutions
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Paris. Jardin Royal des Plantes
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