Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VIII: Clothes, Utensils, Worms, Insects, Amphibians, Animals with Scales, Animals with ShellsVolume VIII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 38 through 46, devoted to clothes, utensils, worms, insects, amphibians, animals with scales, and animals with shells. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past. |
Contents
Prolegomena | 25 |
4 | 49 |
Utensils and Further Items | 84 |
Section WormsBugs Chapter 39 | 131 |
Section WormsBugs Chapter 40 | 257 |
Section WormsBugs Chapter 41 | 337 |
Section Bugs WormsBugs Chapter 42 | 426 |
Animals with Scales II Snake Group | 570 |
Section Animals with Scales Chapter 44 | 639 |
yu | 650 |
Animals with Scales IV Fish without Scales | 705 |
薨魚 | 774 |
1780 | 780 |
Section Animals with Shells Chapter 45 | 791 |