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Materia Medica

: With a history of over 2300 years, Tibetan medicine is a medical system featuring complete...

: The medicinal liquor has enjoyed the fame of "the best drug of all". It is the mixture of...

: The Traditional Chinese Remedy preparation refers to normative remedies, which were produced with...

"Materia Medica" is the summarization of experience in curing diseases with medicine (mostly herbal medicines) and the conventional name of traditional Chinese medical science. The earliest pharmaceutical monograph in China is named Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica.

Li Shizhen and Compendium of Materia Medica

Li Shizhen was a great medical and pharmaceutical expert. He was born in the reign of Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty (1518) in Qichun, Hubei Province. Compendium of Materia Medica, revised and compiled by him, is a great collection of traditional Chinese herbal medicine. It is called ¡°the Great Pharmacopoeia in the East¡±.

Jimsonweed

Jimsonweed

Li Shizhen left his hometown to the north looking for the jimsonweed flowers. Finally he found it, the flower with a sole stem as high as four to five chi, leaves like eggplant leaves and flowers...
Pangolin

Pangolin

In order to find out the life habits of pangolins, Li Shizhen followed hunters into remote mountains and forests to anatomize the mammal and found that its stomach was full of indigested ants. He...