Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume 1: Chinese Historical Illness Terminology

by Zhang Zhibin, Paul U Unschuld, Paul U. Unschuld

The Ben cao gang mu , compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518-1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520283953
• ISBN13: 9780520283954
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 764 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.5" x 9.1"