Ben cao gang mu dictionary
By: Zhang Zhibin and Paul U. Unschuld
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oakland, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520283954
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Chinese Medicine; History; Dictionaries; Vegetable Materia medica
Other titles: Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu
Description: "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 1900 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 first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4500 historical illness terms."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: volume 1. Chinese historical illness terminology