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...

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

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...

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...

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

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"...

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...

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

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

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...

original on 11 December 2021, retrieved 25 August 2019 Li Shizhen, Bencao Gangmu, Section of Insect. 李时珍, 本草纲目, 虫部 "Brood VII: The Onondaga Brood". Periodical...

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

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...

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...

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...

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)...

writing on the ningyo drew much from Chinese sources, for example, the Bencao Gangmu (1596), the compendium of Chinese materia medica, which was introduced...

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...

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...

The Xinxiu bencao (Chinese: 新修本草; pinyin: Xīnxiū běncǎo), also known as the Tang bencao (Chinese: 唐本草; pinyin: Táng běncǎo), is a Chinese pharmacopoeia...

devour the infants of the people". Mirrors: Li Shizhen's medical book Bencao Gangmu mentions, "A mirror is the essence of liquid metal. It is dark on 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...