Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VIIIAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Tuesday 2 February 2021
Description
Volume VIII in theA Ben cao gang muA series offers a complete translation of chapters 38 through 46, devoted to clothes, utensils, worms, insects, amphibians, animals with scales, and animals with shells. TheA Ben cao gang muA is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518â?"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 Unschuld's annotated translation of theA 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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