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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.
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.
Price: $190.00
Pages: 1084
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History
Publication Date:
02 February 2021
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520379923
Format: Hardcover
Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director at the Institute for Chinese Life Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
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.
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.