Overview

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.  

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Author:   Li Shizhen ,  Paul U. Unschuld
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 5.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.542kg
ISBN:  

9780520379923

ISBN 10:   0520379926
Pages:   1084
Publication Date:   02 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Prolegomena  1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature 1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu 1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 – 1593) 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 5. Weights and measures.  5.1 Measures of capacity. 5.2 Measures of weight. 5.3 Measures of length.  5.4 Measures of the size of pills. 6. Appendix Pharmaceutical Substances of Plant Origin mentioned in BCGM ch 47 – 52 in passing. By Ulrike Unschuld.

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Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director at the Institute for Chinese Life Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

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