Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History
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Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History

Clothes, Utensils, Worms, Insects, Amphibians, Animals with Scales, Animals with Shells

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Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History

Clothes, Utensils, Worms, Insects, Amphibians, Animals with Scales, Animals with Shells

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Volume VIII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 38 through 46, devoted to clothes, utensils, worms, insects, amphibians, animals with scales, and animals with shells.

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 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.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780520976986
Edition
1
Topic
Medizin
Subtopic
Akupunktur

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VIII: Clothes, Utensils, Worms, Insects, Amphibians, Animals with Scales, Animals with Shells
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. 1. Prolegomena
  7. 2. Notes on the Translation
  8. 3. Wang Shizhen’s preface of 1590
  9. 4. Translation of the Ben cao gang mu æœŹè‰ç¶±ç›ź. Chapters 38 - 46
  10. Section Clothes and Utensils. Chapter 38 Group: Clothes and Silk
  11. Group: Utensils and Further Items
  12. Section Worms/Bugs. Chapter 39
  13. Worms/Bugs I.Born from Eggs Group, First
  14. Section Worms/Bugs. Chapter 40
  15. Worms/Bugs II. Born from Eggs. Final Group.
  16. Section Worms/Bugs. Chapter 41
  17. Worms/Bugs III. Born from Transformation Group.
  18. Section Bugs Worms/Bugs. Chapter 42
  19. Worms/Bugs IV. Born from Moisture Group.
  20. Section [Animals with] Scales. Chapter 43.
  21. [Animals with] Scales I. Dragon Group.
  22. [Animals with] Scales II. Snake Group.
  23. Section [Animals with] Scales. Chapter 44
  24. [Animals with] Scales III.
  25. [Animals with] Scales IV. Fish without Scales.
  26. Section [Animals with] Shells. Chapter 45
  27. Shells I. Tortoises and Tortoises Group.
  28. Section [Animals with} Shells. Chapter 46
  29. Shells II. Clams Group.
  30. Appendix