Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VII

Volume VII in the  Ben cao gang mu  series offers a complete translation of chapters 34 through 37, devoted to woods. The  Ben cao gang mu  is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluabl