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Li Shizhen
« on: July 03, 2013, 06:28:05 AM »
Li Shizhen (July 3, 1518 – 1593), courtesy name Dongbi, was one of the greatest Chinese doctors, polymaths, scientists, herbalists and acupuncturists in history. His major contribution to clinical medicine was his 27-year work, which is found in his epic book Compendium of Materia Medica (Pen-tsao Kang-mu or Bencao Gangmu). He is also considered to be the greatest scientific naturalist of China, and was very interested in the proper classification of herb components. --Wiki




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« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2013, 06:28:43 AM »
The Bencao Gangmu is a medical text with 1,892 entries, each entry with its own name called a gang. The mu in the title refers to the synonyms of each name. The book has details about more than 1,800 drugs (Chinese Medicine), including 1,100 illustrations and 11,000 prescriptions. It also described the type, form, flavor, nature and application in disease treatments of 1,094 herbs. His Compendium of Materia Medica has been translated into many different languages, and remains as the premier reference work for herbal medicine. His treatise included various related subjects such as botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy. The book was reprinted frequently and five of the original editions still exist. --Wiki

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« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2013, 06:29:50 AM »


Compendium of Materia Medica is a pharmaceutical text written by Li Shizhen during the Ming Dynasty of China.

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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2013, 06:35:00 AM »



Li Shizhen (1518-93), a medical scientist of the Ming Dynasty, was the author of Compendium of Materia Medica. To complete this book, he spent nearly 30 years touring the country, collecting herbal specimens and folk prescriptions. He also personally tasted and tested many herbal drugs to understand their medicinal effect. In addition, he consulted more than 800 medical books. Running to 1.9 million characters, the book records 1,892 kinds of drugs, which is 370 kinds more than any other previous work, and over 10,000 prescriptions, in addition to more than 1,000 illustrations of drugs. Its high scientific value not only resulted in its huge popularity throughout the country, as evidenced by repeated editions after it was initially published in 1596, but also in translated editions into Latin, German, French, English, Russian and Japanese, among other foreign languages, thus making it a document of medical science of global importance. -- http://kaleidoscope.cultural-china.com/

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