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One of the most impressive features of the Ben cao gang mu is the detailed style of the discussion presented by author Li Shizhen. Nowhere else in pre-modern Chinese literature can you find citations of numerous different views and voices in a way that illustrates the development of knowledge about specific substances. In this way, the texts guide readers to definite judgment about the item's therapeutic potential and possible dangers.
The English translation of the Ben cao gang mu will open a new era in the Western reception of Chinese Medicine. As valuable and indispensable as the many books on Chinese materia medica written in Western languages are, their content has been sifted through the sieves of modern knowledge, worldviews, and expectations. This Ben cao gang mu translation offers direct access to a vast accumulation of Chinese knowledge, a unique and valuable window into the past and culture of China.
Introductions & Overview of the of the Chinese pharmaceutical wisdom of using natural products for therapeutic effect since 200 BCE & still found in markets today. List some of the famous herbal volumes developed before the Ben Cao Gang Mu.
15 min - 30 minDescribing the best-known titles prior. The Ben Cao Gang Mu is the apex of knowledge. Information about the author Li Shizhen 1518-1593 and his lineage. An overview of previous translations is presented with their usefulness and difficulties given.
30 min - 45 minIntroduction of the team of Chinese experts to help with history of material medica literature, history of diseases and geographical history of China. Gives outline of chapters. Describes methods used to collect the information for the original book.
45 min - 1 hrsChapters 1-4 include general introductions on how to use pharmaceutical substances for a therapeutic end. Overview of Chapters 3&4 contain hundreds of recipes for specific illnesses. Instructions on how to use the dictionary with the volumes.
Ben Cao Gang Mu
About Paul Unschuld
Internationally recognized Chinese Medicine practitioner and scholar Dr. Paul U. Unschuld is professor and director of the Horst-Goertz Endowment Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at Charité-Medical University Berlin and author of several influential books on Chinese medicine, including Medicine in China: A History of Ideas, What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing, and The Fall and Rise of China: Healing the Trauma of History. He is one of the foremost sinologists working today, a leading scholar of the history and ideas that underlie acupuncture and Chinese medicine, and one of the first Western scholars to examine Chinese medicine in a systemic and rigorous way.
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