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

Fowls, Domestic and Wild Animals, Human Substances

Li Shizhen

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780520976993
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Acupuncture

Volume IX in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 47 through 52, devoted to fowls, domestic and wild animals, and human substances. 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IX:Fowls, Domestic & Wild Animals,Human Substances
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• 1. Prolegomena
• 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 47 - 52
• Fowl I. Water Fowl, Chapter 47
• Fowl II. Land Fowl. Chapter 48
• Fowl III. Forest fowl. Chapter 49
• Fowl IV, Mountain Fowl Group 11.
• Four Legged Animals I. Domestic Animals. Chapter 50
• Four legged Animals II. Section Wild Animals. Chapter 51
• Four Legged Animals III. Section Wild Animals
• Four Legged Animals IV. Section Residential and Strange [Animals]
• Human [Substances] I, Chapter 51
• Appendix