The Chinese medical classics: Ben Cao Gang Mu 本草綱目

 Translated by: Joe Hing kwok Chu

Ben Cao Gang Mu (Materia Medica  Outline)﹐本草綱目,  is one of the most important Chinese medical material books, written by Li Shi zhen  (1518-1593)。It consists of 52 volumes, with more than 1.9 million characters and more than one thousand and one hundred pictures. The book lists 1,892 medical material of herbs, animals and mineral, 374 of which were new additions from the then known species, with11,096 formulae being used in the past. It has more than 60 different editions. The book has been translated into different languages: Japanese, French, German, Russian, Latin, etc..

《本草綱目》明代李時珍(1518-1593)著。 全書共五十二卷，一百九十多萬字，插圖一千一百多幅，共收動物﹐植物和礦物等中藥1892種。在多數藥物後列有歷代藥方﹐共有11,096條 ，其中374條是當時的新品種。《本草綱目》共有60多種版本，並傳到日本﹐朝鮮﹐越南，歐洲。先後被譯成日﹐法﹐德﹐英﹐俄﹐拉丁等多種文字。