Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume V : Creeping Herbs, Water Herbs, Herbs Growing on Stones, Mosses, Cereals.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shizhen, Li.

Series:

Ben Cao Gang Mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History

Ben Cao Gang Mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History ; v.5

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1001 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2022.

Summary:

Volume V in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 18 through 25, devoted to creeping herbs, water herbs, herbs growing on stones, mosses, and cereals. 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

1. Prolegomena

1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature

1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu

1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 - 1593

2. Notes on the Translation

3. Wang Shizhen's preface of 1590

4. Translation of the Ben Cao Gang Mu , ch. 18 through 25

Herbs VII, Creeping Herbs, Chapter 18

Entries

Herbs VIII, Water Herbs, Chapter 19

Herbs IX, Herbs growing on Stones, Chapter 20

Herbs X, Mosses, Chapter 21

Contents Mosses, Various Herbs

Entries [Mosses

Herbs XI, Various Herbs

Entries [Various Herbs

Cereals I, Sesame, Wheat, Rice Group, Chapter 22

Cereals II, Millet Group, Chapter 23

Cereals III, Bean Group, Chapter 24

Cereals IV, Prepared and Brewed [Items] Group, Chapter 25

Appendix

5. Weights and measures

5.1 Measures of capacity

5.2 Measures of weight

5.3 Measures of length

5.4 Measures of the size of pills

6. Lists of Substances

6.1 Identification of pharmaceutical substances of plant origin mentioned in BCGM ch. 18 - 25 in passing. Herbs with an entry of their own are marked with their entry number

6.2 Substances discussed in chapters 18 - 25 in a separate entry. Listed in alphabetical order of their proper pin yin names with their popular English names and references to their entry

6.3 Currently accepted scientific identification of substances discussed in BCGM ch. 18 - 25 in a separate entry. Listed in alphabetical order, with reference to their entry.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-38506-3

OCLC:

1328136484