Augmented Peaceful and Benevolent Decoctions Bureau Formula

Author: Chen Cheng
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: This series is selected from the rare books of the "Imperial Palace Treasure Collection of Medical Classics" for collation and publication. These medical texts are exceptionally rare and valuable, highly useful. Long preserved within the imperial palace, they were seldom seen by people. Therefore, the publication of this book holds great significance for the study of medical history and literature, as well as for the clinical application of medical practitioners. It includes seven books, all of which are highly valuable. The "Expanded Treatise on the Peaceful and Benevolent Pharmaceutical Office Formulas" in ten volumes, though not uncommonly titled, is widely known. However, the edition collated under the leadership of the Japanese pharmacopoeia chief Tachibana Chōken and other notable collators in Japan during the Shōhei 15th year (1730 AD), based on eight Korean woodblock prints and six early Ming Dynasty prints, is rare and highly sought after by distant practitioners. This book's collation...