Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI (eBook)

Vegetables, Fruits

SHIZHEN LI (Autor)

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2024
1046 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39518-3 (ISBN)

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Volume VI in theBen cao gang museries offers a complete translation of chapters 26 through 33, devoted to vegetables and fruits. TheBen cao gang muis a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (15181593). 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. Unschulds annotated translation of theBen cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of Chinas past.

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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. 26 through 33 
Vegetables I, Fragrant-Acrid [Items], Chapter 26 
Vegetables II, Soft[ing] and Smooth[ing items], Chapter 27
Vegetables III, Melons, Chapter 28
Vegetables IV, Water Vegetables
Vegetables V, Mushrooms-Fungi
Fruits I, Five Fruits, Chapter 29
Fruits II, Mountain Fruits, Chapter 30
Fruits III, Non-Chinese Fruits, Chapter 31
Fruits IV, Spices, Chapter 32
Fruits V, Melons and Berries Chapter 33
Fruits VI, Water Fruits

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.1.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History
• Reihe/Serie: Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: Botany • Buddhism • cosmic structures • Culture • Daoism • Demons • fertility • Herbalists • herbs • History • Materia medica • med school • Mineralogy • Natural science • phytotherapy • Practitioners • Pregnancy • Spirits • Therapeutic • Traditional Chinese Medicine • Translation • World Medicine • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39518-2 / 0520395182
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39518-3 / 9780520395183