Taste Herbs: Shen Nong's Tribulation

He used his body to test poison, lost his sight, lost his taste and lost his legs, and used his withered body to carve the first human pharmacopoeia in the world. When witchcraft failed in the face of the plague, a mortal chewed the muddy grass roots, swallowed the bitter juice, and used nerves, muscles and liver to record the dosage limit of each medicine - 365 medicines in thirty years, and behind each taste stood a disappearing name. The wife died in childbirth, the daughter turned into a bird with a stone in her mouth, and her assistant died from a poisonous mushroom. This is the story of a man who burned his body into firewood and illuminated a thousand-year road.