Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VII: Woods (Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History) - Hardcover

Li, Shizhen

 
9780520395190: Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VII: Woods (Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0520395190 ISBN 13: 9780520395190
Publisher: University of California Press, 2024

Synopsis

Volume VII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 34 through 37, devoted to woods.

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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About the Author

Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director at the Institute for Chinese Life Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0520395190
ISBN 13 
9780520395190
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
818