TY  - BOOK
AU  - Li,Shizhen
AU  - Unschuld,Paul U.
TI  - Ben cao gang mu: 16th century Chinese encyclopedia of materia medica and natural history 
T2  - The Ben cao gang mu series
SN  - 9780520976979
AV  - RS180.C5 L5213 2021
U1  - 615.3/210951 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Materia medica
KW  - China
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Medicine, Chinese
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Pre-Linnean works
KW  - Matière médicale
KW  - Chine
KW  - Ouvrages avant 1800
KW  - Médecine chinoise
KW  - Sciences naturelles
KW  - Ouvrages prélinnéens
KW  - MEDICAL / Acupuncture
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Early works
N2  - Volume II in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 5 through 11, devoted to waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, and salts. 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 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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