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Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine > Traditional medicine & remedies > General
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. 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.
Noted historian John Chasteen traces the global history of
marijuana, exploring its rich heritage with captivating insight.
Among the first domesticated plants, Surprisingly, though, only
infrequently has it been used as a recreational drug. Instead,
there is a vibrant spiritual dimension to its long history that has
been continually ignored.
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