Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III (eBook)

Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs

Li Shizhen (Autor)

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2022
756 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38502-3 (ISBN)

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Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs. 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.

Inhalt

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 本草綱目
   Chapters 12 - 14
   
Herbs I, Mountain Herbs, Chapter 12
Herbs II, Mountain Herbs, Chapter 13
Herbs III, Fragrant Herbs, Chapter 14

Appendix
5. Weights and measures
5.1 Measures of capacity
5.2 Measures of weight
5.3 Measures of length
5.4 Measures of the size of pills
6. Lists of Substances
6.1 Identification of pharmaceutical substances of plant origin mentioned
in BCGM ch. 12 - 14
6.2 Substances discussed in chapters 12 – 14
6.3 Currently accepted scientific identification of substances discussed in 
BCGM ch. 12 – 14

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.3.2022
• 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: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38502-0 / 0520385020
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38502-3 / 9780520385023