Materia Medica

The content of the book is based on the third and fourth volumes of Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Ming Dynasty, which treat various diseases as the outline. The heavenly stems are used as the divisions of songs and formulas for various diseases. There are 113 general categories and more than a thousand disease topics listed. Each article details the use of medication, prescriptions, tests, cases, acupuncture, moxibustion, Bianstone, wine, pills, powders, ointments, elixirs, decoctions and other treatment methods. It collects and draws from various medical books and classics before the Ming Dynasty, collects and quotes expositions or partial texts of predecessors, secrets of prescriptions and medicines, as well as "secrets of imperial bans" and records of historical books, miscellaneous works and lost ancient medical books, categorizes them and compiles them into one volume.