Description
| Product ID: | 9780520395152 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History |
| Title: | Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part A |
| Subtitle: | Introduction, History, Pharmacology, Diseases and Suitable Pharmaceutical Drugs I |
| Authors: | Author: Shizhen Li, Paul U. Unschuld |
| Page Count: | 814 |
| Subjects: | Asian history, Asian history, Medical and health informatics, History of medicine, Pharmacology, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies, Traditional medicine and herbal remedies, Medical bioinformatics, History of medicine, Pharmacology, Complementary medicine, Traditional medicine & herbal remedies, China |
| Description: | 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 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-01-09 |
