The book "Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica" is one of the "Pictures describing the world and collecting China". "Compendium of Materia Medica" was compiled by Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, on the basis of inheriting and summarizing the achievements of materia medica before the Ming Dynasty and conducting multi-faceted research. It took decades to compile. It has always enjoyed the reputation of "the great classic of oriental medicine". It is called a pharmaceutical work, and its content actually covers many fields such as medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, biology, geology, geography, history, etc. It can be said to be a natural history work with global influence, and it is still an inexhaustible source of research on Chinese medicine and culture.
Reader comments
I particularly like the part about the effects and applications of herbal medicine, which is very practical. However, I kind of hate those complicated prescriptions, they seem so difficult to understand. But overall, this is a very valuable book and is recommended to friends who are interested in Chinese medicine.
I particularly like the part about the effects and applications of herbal medicine, which is very practical. However, I kind of hate those complicated prescriptions, they seem so difficult to understand. But overall, this is a very valuable book and is recommended to friends who are interested in Chinese medicine.