Bencao Gangmu

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Bencao Gangmu is a monumental 16th-century Chinese pharmacopeia and natural history encyclopedia that systematically documents medicinal substances, their properties, and uses in traditional Chinese medicine.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese pharmacopeia
Ming dynasty work
medical encyclopedia
natural history encyclopedia
author Li Shizhen NERFINISHED
century 16th century
countryOfOrigin China
dateOfCompletion 1578
dynasty Ming dynasty NERFINISHED
field materia medica
natural history
pharmacology
traditional Chinese medicine
firstPrintedEdition late 16th century
hasGenre materia medica compendium
hasNotableFeature integration of medical and natural history observations
systematic classification of medicinal substances
includes citations of earlier medical texts
classification of drugs by nature and flavor
corrections of earlier materia medica
information on collection and storage
information on habitats of substances
influenced East Asian medicine
Japanese Kampo medicine NERFINISHED
Korean traditional medicine
Vietnamese traditional medicine
language Classical Chinese
numberOfEntries 1892
numberOfIllustrations over 1100
numberOfVolumes 52
originalTitleScript 本草綱目 NERFINISHED
periodOfCompilation over 30 years
recognizedAs classic of traditional Chinese medicine
landmark in Chinese pharmacology
structure 16 divisions
60 categories
subjectMatter animal-derived drugs
botanical drugs
dietary therapy
hygiene
medicinal substances
mineral drugs
preparation methods
processing of medicines
therapeutic indications
toxicology
titleTranslation Compendium of Materia Medica NERFINISHED

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