Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IV: Marshland Herbs, Poisonous Herbs Volume 4

by Li Shizhen

Volume IV in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 15 through 17, devoted to marshland herbs and poisonous 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520385039
• ISBN13: 9780520385030
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 946 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"