Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume II - Waters, Fires, Soils, Metals, Jades, Stones, Minerals, Salts (Hardcover)

Volume II in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 5 through 11, devoted to waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, and salts. 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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History, 2
Release date:	February 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Li Shi-Zhen
Translators:	Paul U Unschuld
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	906
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-37989-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health Books > History > General Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health
LSN:	0-520-37989-6
Barcode:	9780520379893

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