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Compendium of Materia Medica

(Li Shizhen writes pharmaceutical works)

Compendium of Materia Medica (A.D. 1578) was written by Li Shizhen.

The author spent nearly 30 years compiling 52 volumes, including 65,438+0,892 kinds of drugs and more than 65,438+0,000 drawings, explaining the sexual taste, indications, drug use rules, origin, morphology, collection, processing and prescription compatibility. Drugs, and including more than 65,438+0,000 additional prescriptions. This book has complete or abridged translations in Korean, Japanese, English, French and German. /kloc-a collection of pharmaceutical achievements in China before the 6th century.

This book not only corrects some mistakes in the past materia medica, but also synthesizes a lot of scientific data, puts forward a more scientific classification method of drugs, incorporates advanced biological evolution ideas, and embodies rich clinical practice. This book is also a natural history book with world influence. It is praised by foreign scholars as the encyclopedia of China.