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

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

A generic term to refer to recipe books during the Tang dynasty Shiliao bencao (Materia Medica for Successful Dietary Therapy) 食療本草 食疗本草 684 or 701 – 704...

Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Detailed description of Baijiu was recorded in Bencao Gangmu (本草纲目, Compendium of Materia Medica) by Li Shizhen. Baijiu continued...

Uchibayashi, Masao (July 2005). "Maize in Pre-Columbian China Found in Bencao Pinhui Jingyao" (PDF). Yakugaku Zasshi: Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society...

rather than the generals. You conquered the empire on horseback, but from horseback you will never succeed in ruling it. — Lu Jia Derived from Taoist philosophy...

include pubic hair, muscle, blood, bone, semen, and menstrual blood. The Bencao Gangmu describes the use of 35 human waste products and body parts as medicines...

manufactured from tin and silver, was first introduced in the medical text Xinxiu bencao written by Su Gong in 659. Chinese scientists of the Tang period employed...

Chinese medicine also includes some human parts: the classic Materia medica (Bencao Gangmu) describes (also criticizes) the use of 35 human body parts and excreta...

most important of these later works is the Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu, 本草綱目) compiled during the Ming dynasty by Li Shizhen, which is still...

Shijing usage as baoli 枹櫟 instead of baoli 苞櫟 "bushy oak" (see below). The Bencao Gangmu says there are two varieties of hu 槲 "Quercus mongolica, Mongolian...

community-based law enforcement. 1070 The Song ambassador Su Song published the Bencao Tujing. 1072 Guo Xi painted Early Spring. 1075 The Song diplomat Shen Kuo...

Pharmacopoeia". Li Xun was interested in foreign drugs and his book, The Haiyao Bencao, was all about foreign drugs. His family sold drugs for a living. Li Xuan...

(15) The Chinese published the oldest book on famine foods: the Jiuhuang Bencao 救荒本草 "Materia Medica for the Relief of Famine". Zhu Su 朱橚 (1361–1425), the...

Qingyang (Anhui). The earliest explanation of how to make tofu is found in the Bencao Gangmu, written by the Ming dynasty polymath Li Shizhen (1518–1593). According...

title is first recorded in Tang Shenwei's (唐慎微, 1108) Zhenglei bencao (證類本草) and You Mou's (尤袤, 1180) Suichutang shumu (遂初堂書目). The oldest extant edition...

harinmaṇi ("moon-jewel") name for emerald (1931: 168–169). Li Shizhen's 1578 Bencao Gangmu pharmacopeia describes leizhu (雷珠, "thunder pearls/beads") that the...

similar to a piece of gray jade with inscriptions on it. Li Shizhen's (1578) Bencao gangmu pharmacopeia quotes the "Wild Women" under the xingxing 狌狌 "orangutan"...