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 ...

Historical records indicate that Zhu Danxi, one of the four great medical masters of the Jin (1115-1234) and Yuan (1271-1368) ...

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 ...

Distilled liquor is believed to date back to the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368 AD) in China, according the ancient Chinese medical book Bencao Gangmu, or the Compendium of Materia Medica. However, following ...