Contents: Li Shizhen's 410-year-old classic, Bencao Gangmu: Compendium of Materia Medica, with its lore chronicling centuries of Chinese medical achievement, now reveals its secrets to the world ...

First designated as a top-grade medicinal plant in Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic, the 16 th century Compendium of Materia Medica described its use for tackling a wide range of blood disorders in women.

Compendium of Materia Medica. Used as an ancient remedy for fever, artemisinin was isolated and refined by Tu in the 1970s, and according to the World Health Organization, antimalarials containing ...

According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, an encyclopedic work of herbology and nature compiled by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), jellyfish has the effects of "clearing heat ...

documented the brewing method and medicinal uses of red yeast rice wine in his book Bencaoyanyibuyi (Supplement to the ...