Ben cao gang mu. Volume II, Waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, salts / Li Shizhen ; translated by Paul U. Unschuld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593, author.

Contributor:

Unschuld, Paul U., translator.

Series:

Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Chinese--Early works to 1800.

Medicine, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (906 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

1. Prolegomena

2. Notes on the Translation

3. Wang Shizhen's preface of 1590

4. Translation of the Ben cao gang mu 本草綱目. Chapters 5 - 11.

Section Waters. Chapter 5

Group I: Waters of Heaven

Group II: Waters of the Earth

Section Fires. Chapter 6

Section Soils. Chapter 7

Section Metals and Stones. Chapter 8

Group I: Metals

Group II: Jades

Section Stones. Chapter 9

Group III: Stones

石部第十卷 Chapter 10: Section of Stones

Group IV: Stones

Section Stones. Chapter 11

Group V: Salt Stones/Minerals

Appendix 附錄

Appendix

5. Weights and measures

6. Appendix Pharmaceutical Substances of Plant Origin mentioned in BCGM ch 5 - 11 in passing

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520976979

0520976975

OCLC:

1240580494