Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume V: Creeping Herbs, Water Herbs, Herbs Growing on Stones, Mosses, Cereals Volume 5

by Li Shizhen

Volume V in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 18 through 25, devoted to creeping herbs, water herbs, herbs growing on stones, mosses, and cereals. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520385055
• ISBN13: 9780520385054
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 1000 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"