Shen Nong's Herbal (Upper and Lower Volumes)

Author: Li Shizhen (Ming Dynasty) / Country: Mainland China
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Publishing Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Ming Dynasty·Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica is a world-famous monumental work in pharmacology. The entire book comprises 52 volumes, listing 1,892 medicinal substances, over 10,000 prescriptions, and more than 1,000 illustrations, making it the most comprehensive collection of herbal medicine before the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty. Since its publication in the twenty-first year of the Wanli era, the book has been reprinted and circulated domestically over sixty times. Most pharmacological works after the Ming Dynasty have used it as a primary source. Additionally, the book has spread overseas, significantly influencing the development of world pharmacology, botany, mineralogy, chemistry, and other fields, becoming a treasure of world culture. This edition is a critical edition of Compendium of Materia Medica, which has been well-received and praised by readers since its release in 1977. It has become the most influential version of Compendium of Materia Medica in the contemporary era, widely adopted by academia both domestically and internationally, and enjoys a strong reputation. In 1992, it won the first National Ancient Books Compilation Book Award, and in 1994, it was nominated for the National Book Award. This revised edition, in addition to correcting minor errors from the previous version, has added an index of strokes for main text titles and an index of pinyin for main text titles, appended at the end of the book for readers' reference.