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Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI: Vegetables, Fruits (Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History)
  • Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI: Vegetables, Fruits (Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History)
  • Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI: Vegetables, Fruits (Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History)
Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI: Vegetables, Fruits (Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History)

Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI: Vegetables, Fruits (Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History)

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Author: Li, Shizhen

Edition: First Edition

Number Of Pages: 1046

EAN: 9780520395176

Release Date: 09-01-2024

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 2.0 inches

Details: Volume VI in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 26 through 33, devoted to vegetables and fruits.

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 U. 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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