Bencao Gangmu

Bencao Gangmu (simplified Chinese: 本草纲目; traditional Chinese: 本草綱目; pinyin: Běncǎo Gāngmù; Wade–Giles: Pen-ts'ao Kang-mu), also known as Compendium of Materia Medica, is a Chinese materia medica work written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty. It is a work epitomizing materia medica (本草) in the Ming Dynasty. The Bencao Gangmu is regarded as the most complete and comprehensive medical book ever written in the history of traditional Chinese medicine. It lists all the plants, animals, minerals, and other items that were believed to have medicinal properties.

本草纲目

《本草纲目》，药学著作，五十二卷，明·李时珍撰，刊于1590年。全书共190多万字，载有药物1892种，收集医方11096个，绘制精美插图1160幅，分为16部、60类。是作者在继承和总结以前本草学成就的基础上，结合作者长期学习、采访所积累的大量药学知识，经过实践和钻研，历时数十年而编成的一部巨著。书中不仅考正了过去本草学中的若干错误，综合了大量科学资料，提出了较科学的药物分类方法，溶入先进的生物进化思想，并反映了丰富的临床实践。本书也是一部具有世界性影响的博物学著作。

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