Li Shizhen (July 3, 1518 – 1593), courtesy name Dongbi, was a Chinese acupuncturist, herbalist, naturalist, pharmacologist, physician, and writer of the Ming dynasty. He is the author of a 27-year work, the Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu; Chinese: 本草綱目). He developed several methods for classifying herb components and medications for treating diseases.[1]
The Compendium is a pharmacology text with 1,892 entries, with details about more than 1,800 traditional Chinese medicines, including 1,100 illustrations and 11,000 prescriptions. It also described the type, form, flavor, nature and application in disease treatments of 1,094 herbs. The book has been translated into several languages. The treatise included various related subjects such as botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy. Five original editions still exist.[1][2]
^ ab《走遍中国》 20111105 医药双圣李时珍_《医药双圣李时珍》_视频_央视网. tv.cntv.cn. Retrieved 2018-05-21. CNTV Documentary on the life and achievements of Li Shizhen, with focus on his work Compendium of Materia Medica. Title is 《医药双圣李时珍》 (English translation is "Medical and Pharmacological Sage Lishizhen"). Part of the series 《走遍中国》 (English name is "Around China"). English subtitles are available.
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LiShizhen (July 3, 1518 – 1593), courtesy name Dongbi, was a Chinese acupuncturist, herbalist, naturalist, pharmacologist, physician, and writer of the...
medicine, natural history, and Chinese herbology compiled and edited by LiShizhen and published in the late 16th century, during the Ming dynasty. Its first...
the niyu (鯢魚) is elaborated in a separate section. It has been noted by LiShizhen that the character for the Niyu (Ni 鯢 fish) consists of the "fish" indexing...
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the human body and "like to eat mercury". LiShizhen (1596) "Bugs (Worms, Insects, Amphibians) 4"; LiShizhen (1782) Book 42, "Bugs 4". The Chinese text...
China, as early as 3rd century, to the book Wupu Bencao (around 239). LiShizhen wrote the following in his Bencao Gangmu (1596): Come to think about it...
yeast rice is described in the Chinese pharmacopoeia Ben Cao Gang Mu by LiShizhen. A modern-era use as a dietary supplement developed in the late 1970s...
and feng 封 "an edible monster that resembles a two-eyed lump of flesh". LiShizhen distinguishes 11 varieties of monkeys: A small one with a short tail is...
Siku Quansu version, vol. 1, p. 153 of 237 LiShizhen, Bencao Gangmu, "vol. 51, section leopard (豹) LiShizhen (author), Paul U. Unschuld (translator),...
heavily guarded imperial jail to rescue her senior, the famous doctor LiShizhen (Xu Bin). She is stopped by the agent Bi Zheng (Qi Yu Wu), a Brocaded...
is also considered a medicinal wine in traditional Chinese medicine. LiShizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica credits sweet osmanthus with "curing the...
historian of medicine Paul U. Unschuld, identifies the 貍 lí as the leopard cat. LiShizhen cites Records of the Commanderies and States (郡國志)'s description...
herbalist LiShizhen's book Compendium of Materia Medica published in 1578, identifying jiaogulan supposedly for treating various ailments. While LiShizhen had...
grown in the Yangtze River Delta region, but the Ming dynasty naturalist LiShizhen popularized it by bringing attention to its medicinal qualities. The variant...
historian of medicine Paul U. Unschuld, identifies the 貍 lí as the leopard cat. LiShizhen cites Records of the Commanderies and States (郡國志)'s description...
Simiao of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Zhang Jiegu (c. 1151–1234), and LiShizhen (1518–1593). In 1950, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chairman Mao Zedong...
According to Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, this content was Arabic, but LiShizhen confused the story with a Burmese custom of preserving the bodies of abbots...
were being cultivated in China as early as the Tang dynasty (618–907). LiShizhen, in his Pen Tsao Kang Mu, quotes Tang Ying-chuan from that period as saying...
the 1596 Compendium of Materia Medica written by the Chinese polymath LiShizhen during the Ming dynasty, the creation of tofu is attributed to the Han...
ink from the soot of burning petroleum, which the later pharmacologist LiShizhen (1518–1593) wrote was as lustrous as lacquer and was superior to pine...
archived from the original on 11 December 2021, retrieved 25 August 2019 LiShizhen, Bencao Gangmu, Section of Insect. 李时珍, 本草纲目, 虫部 "Brood VII: The Onondaga...
"earthworm" lists alternate names of dilong and tulong 土龍 (see above). LiShizhen notes these names derive from the myth that earthworms (like dragons)...
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