Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI: Vegetables, Fruits, 1st Edition eBook

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Volume VI in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 26 through 33, devoted to vegetables and fruits.

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 U. 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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Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI: Vegetables, Fruits 1st Edition is written by Shizhen Li and published by University of California Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI are 9780520395183, 0520395182 and the print ISBNs are 9780520395176, 0520395174.