Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2: Geographical and Administrative Designations

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2: Geographical and Administrative Designations

Author
Hua LinfuPaul D. Buell
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Year
2016
Page
466
ISBN
9780520965553
File Type
pdf
File Size
1.9 MiB

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1, 900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1, 600, 000 characters. This secondbook in a three-volume series verifies and localizes all 2, 158 geographical and associated administrative names referred to in the Ben cao gang mu in connection with the origin and useof pharmaceutical substances.

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