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Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part A: Introduction, History, Pharmacology, Diseases and Suitable Pharmaceutical Drugs I
Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part A: Introduction, History, Pharmacology, Diseases and Suitable Pharmaceutical Drugs I

Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part A: Introduction, History, Pharmacology, Diseases and Suitable Pharmaceutical Drugs I in Bloomington, MN

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Volume I is divided into two parts. Part A of volume 1 in the
Ben cao gang mu
series offers a translation of chapters 1 and 2 and portions of chapter 3. Chapters 1 and 2 are devoted to introducing the history of materia medica. Chapter 3 is devoted to pharmaceutical drugs for diseases. Chapter 3 is continued, along with chapter 4, in part B of volume I.
The
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
, 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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