Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III: Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs (Volume 3) (Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History)

Volume III in the __Ben cao gang mu__ series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs. 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. Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs.

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. Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a completetranslation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbsand fragrant herbs. The Ben cao gang mu is asixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter andnatural history by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). The culmination of asixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceuticalliterature, it is considered the most important and comprehensivebook ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains aninvaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. Thisnine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama ofwide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations,ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of naturalsubstances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld'sannotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presentedhere with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window intoviewing the people and culture of China's past "The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history attributed to the author 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"-- Provided by publisher