Shen Nong's Herbal (Annotated Edition, Volume 1 and 2) (Second Edition)

Author: Li Shizhen
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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 consists of 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 reign, the book has been reprinted and circulated domestically over sixty times. Most post-Ming herbal medicine works 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 corrected and annotated version of the Compendium of Materia Medica. Since its release in 1977, it has been widely praised and favored by readers, becoming the most influential version of the Compendium of Materia Medica in the modern era. It is widely adopted by academia and enjoys a good reputation both domestically and internationally. In 1992, it won the first National First-Class Ancient Books Collection and Organization 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.