How many medicines are recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica?

Updated on culture 2024-04-14
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Compendium of Materia Medica", written by Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty in 1578 and first published in 1593. The book contains 1,892 kinds of medicines, including 1,094 kinds of botanical drugs, and the rest are minerals and other drugs, and 374 kinds of drugs are newly added by Li Shizhen. Illustrations of medications are attached to the book.

    There are 1,109 paintings and 11,096 prescriptions, of which more than 8,000 were collected or drafted by Li himself. Each drug is divided into interpretation, interpretation, correctness and error, treatment, smell, indications, invention, and prescriptions. The book not only corrects a number of errors in the past materia medica, synthesizes a large number of scientific data, but also puts forward a fairly scientific method of drug classification, especially the book arranges animal drugs in the order of "from cheap to expensive", records the important information of animals' adaptation to the living environment, and shows that Li Shizhen has the idea of biological evolution.

    This book has been engraved dozens of times, promoted the study of materia medica and biology in China, and has also had a great impact in the world, appearing in abridged translations or full translations in English, French, German, Japanese and other languages. Some of this information directly influenced the formation of Darwin's theory of evolution.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    The number of Chinese medicines contained in the comprehensive Materia Medica has reached 2,608.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    The Compendium of Materia Medica is the crystallization of more than 30 years of painstaking efforts by the Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen. The book has more than 1.9 million words and records 1,892 drugs, divided into 60 categories. Among them, 374 are Li Shizhen's newly added drugs.

    More than 1,100 drawings with more than 11,000 prescriptions. It is a summary of the pharmacology of the motherland for thousands of years. This pharmacopoeia, both in terms of its rigorous scientific classification, and in terms of the number of drugs it contains and the flow and vividness of its writing, far surpasses any ancient work on materia medica.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Nux nux chinensis, cassia seed , xanthropus seed , lotus seed , yellow medicine seed , bitter bean seed , neem seed , yam, angelica sinensis, wolfberry berry, deer antler velvet, turtle jelly paste, cordyceps sinensis, Yunnan baiyao, toad crisp, earth dragon.

    Huoxiang, Citrus aurantium, Cardamom, Atractylodes, Tangerine peel, Atractylodes, cloves, wood, Magnolia, Ginger, Galangal, Sand kernel, Salvia, Chuanxiong, Ginkgo biloba, frankincense, blood exhaustion, three.

    Seventh, continuation, peach kernel, safflower, cinnamon, chicken blood vine, bone crush, root of the dragon ban, mint, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, coptis, cassia seed, prunella vulgaris, bezoar, cork, sophora, gentian, tsubaki, banxia, Sichuan fritillary, fat sea, mulberry white bark, bellflower, aster, baibu, clam, bitter almond, perilla seed.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    There are a total of 1,892 herbs in the Compendium of Materia Medica.

    The Compendium of Materia Medica is 52 volumes, more than 190 million words, containing 1,892 kinds of drugs, 11,096 prescriptions, 1,109 illustrations, divided into 16 parts and 60 categories, citing literature from the Warring States period to the Ming Wanli period, covering more than 2,000 years of pharmacological knowledge.

    The book records and verifies in detail the names, forms, origins, efficacy, and indications of 1,892 natural medicines. The errors in the pharmacological works published before the 16th century were filled, and the traditional drug classification method was also improved, and the scientific nature of biological classification was improved.

    The Compendium of Materia Medica not only records the medicinal resources of China before the 16th century, but also records some natural medicines and related knowledge imported from overseas, such as Persia, India and the Mediterranean.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    The Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded 1,892 kinds of medicines.

    Jay Chou's "Compendium of Materia Medica" mentions: strychnine, cassia seed, xanthium seed, lotus seed, yellow medicine seed, bitter bean seed, neem seed, yam, angelica, wolfberry, deer antler velvet, turtle jelly, cordyceps, Yunnan Baiyao, toad, Dilong, 16 species.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    There are strychnine, cassia seeds, angelica.

  8. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    I have a very good e-book with a compendium of materia medica, if you want, send me your mailbox, if you are interested, you can slowly enjoy it one by one.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    There are 1892 kinds of drugs, and it would be too time-consuming to say them all together, or try to say them as much as possible. You might as well find a copy of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and check it slowly. The Compendium of Materia Medica is not a secret book, it can be found everywhere, at least in the library of any Chinese medicine college or university.

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    1892 drugs.

    Compendium of Materia Medica, Materia Medica, 52 volumes. Li Shizhen (Dongbi) of the Ming Dynasty wrote from the 31st year of Jiajing (1552) to the 6th year of Wanli (1578).

    Volume 5 52 is a monograph, containing 1,892 kinds of medicines and 1,109 kinds of drawings. The general example is "not divided into three products, but each department; Things follow the analogy, and the eyes follow the outline. Among them, the department is the "outline" and the class is the "item", and it is divided into 16 parts (water, fire, earth, gold and stone, grass, grain, vegetables, fruits, wood, clothing, insects, scales, media, birds, beasts, and people) 60 categories.

    Each ministry is divided into "from micro to huge" and "from cheap to expensive", which is not only easy to search, but also reflects the idea of biological evolution and development. There are 60 groups under the department, and many organisms of the same family and genus are often arranged together in each category. Each drug is "labeled as a compendium and listed as the goal", that is, the following 8 items (i.e., "things") under the name of a drug.

    Among them, "release name" lists aliases and explains the meaning of naming; "Centralized explanation", introducing drug production, form, harvesting, etc.; "Identification" (or "right and wrong"), which is a collection of theories, distinguishes and corrects drug doubts;

    repair", describing the method of cannon burning; "Smell", "Indications", "Invention", expound the theory of medicinal properties, suggest the key points of medication, and each of the author's personal opinions; "Prescriptions", with the theme of disease, with relevant prescriptions attached.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    The Compendium of Materia Medica records 1,892 kinds of medicines.

    The Compendium of Materia Medica contains 1,892 kinds of medicines, of which 374 are newly added, and a total of 11,096 prescriptions are included, which is a systematic summary of Chinese medicine before the 16th century, which not only corrects many errors of predecessors, but also adds many new drugs and test prescriptions. For other drugs and prescriptions that have not yet been widely recognized, Li Shizhen has taken the attitude that anyone who has used them must not be left behind, so as to avoid their loss.

    There are many editions of the Compendium of Materia Medica, in addition to various foreign full translations or abridged translations, there are about 72 kinds in China, which can be roughly divided into "one ancestor and three lines", that is, the ancestral book (Jinling Ben, Seyuantang Ben) and Jiangxi Ben, Qian Ben, Zhang Ben three systems.

    In 1957, the People's Medical Publishing House photocopied according to Zhang's book, and the later version was published by the People's Medical Publishing House in 1977 in Liu Hengru's proofreading, and in 1993, the Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House photocopied the Jinling edition.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    The Compendium of Materia Medica has a total of 52 volumes, containing 1,892 kinds of medicines, including 374 kinds of new drugs, collecting 11,096 medical prescriptions, and also drawing 1,160 exquisite illustrations in the book, 11,096 prescriptions (of which more than 8,100 are collected and drafted by Li Shizhen himself), about 1.9 million words, divided into 16 parts, 60 categories.

    Li Shizhen divided the plant into five parts: grass, grain, vegetable, fruit, and headquarters, and divided the grass part into nine categories, including mountain grass, fragrant grass, grass, poisonous weed, vine grass, aquatic grass, stone grass, moss grass, and weed, which is a precious heritage in the treasure house of medicine in China. It is a systematic summary of traditional Chinese medicine before the 16th century, known as the "Great Book of Oriental Medicine", which has the greatest impact on modern human science and medicine.

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