Bencao Gangmu

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  1. History of Medicine: China Archived 2021-10-04 at the Wayback Machine / Encyclopædia Britannica // "There were famous herbals from ancient times, but all these, to the number of about 1,000, were embodied by Li Shijen in the compilation of Bencao gangmu (the “Great Pharmacopoeia”) in the 16th century CE."
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Bibliography

  • Li Shizhen (2003). Luo, Xiwen (ed.). Compendium of Materia Medica: Bencao Gangmu. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. ISBN   7119032607. (Review, Edward B. Jelks)
  • Métailié, Georges (2001), "The Bencao gangmu of Li Shizhen", in Hsu, Elisabeth (ed.), Innovation in Chinese medicine, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 221–261, ISBN   0521800684 .
Compendium of Materia Medica
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