Compendium of Materia Medica (Color Illustrated Edition)

This book was written 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 and 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.