The Bencao gangmu, known in English as the Compendium of Materia Medica or Great Pharmacopoeia, is an encyclopedic gathering of medicine, natural history...

"Prescriptions for Common Benefit"), which is frequently quoted in the Bencao gangmu. Zhu Xiao studied botany when he lived in Kaifeng, which is located...

same passage as having blue fur. The xingxing (猩猩) is mentioned in the Bencao Gangmu ("Compendium of Materia Medica", 1596), and identified as referring...

"iron-chewer" added to its cultural identity (2013: 224). Li Shizhen's 1596 Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica) section on animal drugs enters mo (貘)...

lingzhi mushroom is the 16th century Chinese herbal compendium, the Bencao Gangmu (1578). There, a number of different lingzhi-like mushrooms defined...

The concoction is detailed in Chinese medical sources, including the Bencao Gangmu of the 16th century. Relying on a second-hand account, the text reports...

Li Shizhen's (1597) Bencao gangmu, the classic materia medica of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), included 35 human drugs, including organs, bodily...

the Compendium of Materia Medica or Bencao Gangmu (1596) under its entry for Tiyu (Chinese: 䱱魚) The Bencao Gangmu categorized the tiyu (䱱魚) as one of...

with the same dress and facial expression. (18) Li Shizhen's (1578) Bencao Gangmu classic pharmacopeia mentions both burning-mirrors and dew-mirrors....

collated in the Taiping Yulan encyclopedia (10th century ) and the Bencao gangmu (16th century) compendium of materia medica. It is called fūri by Japanese...

to the book Wupu Bencao (around 239). Li Shizhen wrote the following in his Bencao Gangmu (1596): Come to think about it, Wupu Bencao says "綸布 (gūanbù)...

yinyi. The same Sanskrit equivalent is repeated in the widely used Bencao Gangmu or Compendium of Materia Medica. In Buddhist texts this word occurs...

Chapter 11. The classic Chinese pharmacopoeia, Li Shizhen's (1597) Bencao Gangmu (獸之四 "Animals No. 4" chapter) lists medical uses for five Yu 寓 "monkeys"...

that the myth of raijū originated from the Chinese materia medica text Bencao Gangmu. Scholars believe that there were raijū sightings and documentation...

Ye Bao (艾叶豹 ~ 艾葉豹, "common mugwort leaves leopards") in Li Shizhen's Bencao Gangmu as well as He Ye Bao (荷叶豹 ~ 荷葉豹). Duyvendak, J.J.L. (1939), "The True...

2003: 4132, cf. DeWoskin and Crump 1996: 215–216) Li Shizhen's (1578) Bencao Gangmu ("Compendium of Materia Medica") lists Penghou under Chapter 51, which...

"Dragon"), a constellation near the north celestial pole. The (1578 CE) Bencao Gangmu pharmacopeia's entry for long "dragon" describes "a pearl under its...

their ill parents or parents-in-law. Later medical manuals like the Bencao Gangmu advised against the use of human body parts, though still acknowledging...

human females and violating them. According to the medical herb book Bencao Gangmu (本草綱目), they are bigger than monkeys, and according to the Baopuzi (抱朴子)...

century) preserved in the well-known Ming Period materia medica, the Bencao Gangmu. A similar description can be found the Shui Jing Zhu (Commentary on...

body parts, and various preparations were elaborated in Li Shizhen's Bencao Gangmu (本草綱目). Snake bile was offered to Yang Jisheng as treatment for the...

historical discussion regarding the origin of long gu recorded in the Bencao Gangmu, which compiles a wide variety of Chinese medical sources. The Mingyi...

Aristolochia is known to contain the lethal toxin aristolochic acid. The Bencao Gangmu, compiled by Li Shi-Zhen in the latter part of the sixteenth century...

Western Jin natural history book 玄中記, and the Ming period herbology book Bencao Gangmu, and in the Edo Period Japan book Wakan Sansai Zue. They go by various...

calls Li Shizhen "the 'uncrowned king' of Chinese naturalists", and his Bencao gangmu "undoubtedly the greatest scientific achievement of the Ming".[This...

in order to drive away the fang-liang spectres. Li Shizhen's (1578) Bencao Gangmu ("Compendium of Materia Medica") quotes this under the Wangliang entry...

book Xinxiu Bencao by Su Jing (aka Su Gong, died 674), in the 1037 CE rime dictionary Jiyun, or the Ming dynasty materia medica, Bencao Gangmu, that the...

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...

shout its name, and it will not dare harm you. Li Shizhen's (1578) Bencao Gangmu classic materia medica discusses the shanxiao under the Feifei feifei...

can be seen in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, the Wakan Sansai Zue, and the Bencao Gangmu, with statements like "like wind among rocks, it climbs trees, and has...