The Bencao gangmu, known in English as the Compendium of Materia Medica or Great Pharmacopoeia, is an encyclopedic gathering of medicine, natural history...
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Shōjō (section Bencao Gangmu)
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...
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"Prescriptions for Common Benefit"), which is frequently quoted in the Bencao gangmu. Zhu Xiao studied botany when he lived in Kaifeng, which is located...
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Mo (Chinese zoology) (section Bencao gangmu)
"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)...
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lingzhi mushroom is the 16th century Chinese herbal compendium, the Bencao Gangmu (1578). There, a number of different lingzhi-like mushrooms defined...
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Li Shizhen's (1597) Bencao gangmu, the classic materia medica of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), included 35 human drugs, including organs, bodily...
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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...
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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...
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Chinese sun and moon mirrors (section Bencao gangmu)
with the same dress and facial expression. (18) Li Shizhen's (1578) Bencao Gangmu classic pharmacopeia mentions both burning-mirrors and dew-mirrors....
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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)...
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