Who spent 27 years writing the Compendium of Materia Medica?

It's Li Shizhen. "Compendium of Materia Medica" is a collection of Chinese herbal medicine classics written by Li Shizhen before the 16th century of Chinese herbal medicine, the work absorbs the essence of the previous herbal books, corrects many mistakes of the predecessors, and is to add hundreds of medicinal herbs, there are many new discoveries and breakthroughs, is the most complete and scientific medical work in Chinese history before 1600 years.

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The classic was finalized in the sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1578) and officially published in Nanjing in the twenty-fourth year of Wanli (1596). The Compendium of Materia Medica has a total of 52 volumes, containing 1,892 kinds of drugs, including 374 kinds of new drugs, and collecting 11,096 medical prescriptions, about 1.9 million words, divided into 16 parts and 60 categories.

The holder of the Compendium of Materia Medica is Li Shizhen. The Compendium of Materia Medica took Li Shizhen 27 years to write.

Li Shizhen (1518 1593), a great Chinese medical scientist and pharmacologist, was a native of Dongbi Mountain, Qizhou Town, Qichun County, Hubei Province. He was sentenced to the ancestral hall of the Chu Wangfu and the Royal Tai Hospital, and after his death, the Ming court was awarded the title of "Wen Lin Lang".

Li Shizhen, Ming Wuzong Zhengde 13th lunar month 26 (July 3, 1518) was born in Qichun County, Hubei Province, Qizhou Town, Dongchang Street.

His grandfather was a herbalist doctor, and his father, Li Yanwen, was a famous doctor at that time and served as a doctor in Tai Hospital. At that time, the status of folk doctors was low and their lives were hard, and his father did not want Li Shizhen to study medicine again. Li Shizhen was born in a family of doctors, loved medicine since childhood, and studied medicine with his father at the age of 23.

In the thirty-first year of Jiajing of Ming Shizong (1552), Li Shizhen began to compile Huihu's "Compendium of Materia Medica", based on the "Evidence of Materia Medica", referring to more than 800 books, during which from the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), he left home many times to clear out the investigation, and his footprints covered many famous mountains and rivers in Huguang, Jiangxi, and Zhili, and many difficult problems were clarified.

After 27 years of long-term efforts, Mingshenzong completed the first draft of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the sixth year of Wanli (1578) at the age of 61.

He died in the twenty-first year of Wanli (1593 AD).

In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli (1596), the third year after Li Shizhen's death, the Compendium of Materia Medica was officially published in Jinling (now Nanjing).

Li Shizhen started writing in his 30s, and it was not until he was 54 years old that he wrote the first draft of the "Compendium of Materia Medica". After that, it was revised three times in a row, and at the age of 61, the book of more than 1.9 million words was completed.

The 52 volumes of the Compendium of Trapped Grass include 1,892 kinds of drugs, divided into 16 parts and 60 categories, of which 374 are new drugs that have not been recorded in the past. The book details the name, properties, uses, and production methods of each drug. The book also contains more than 1,100 prescriptions and 1,160 drug morphological diagrams.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" compiled by Li Shizhen has been handed down to this day and has become a precious medical cultural heritage in China. The book was transmitted to Japan and Korea in the early 17th century, and was later translated into Latin, French, Russian, German, English and other languages, and spread to all parts of the world, becoming a valuable asset for people all over the world. Until now, the Compendium of Materia Medica is still an important document of world medicine, and it is also a great contribution made by the Chinese people to the development of world medicine.

The author of "Compendium of Materia Medica" is Li Shizhen.

Li Shizhen, whose name is Dongbi, in his later years, called himself a native of the lake, a famous medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, and the "medical saint" Wan Mi Zhai, who was respected as the "medicine saint".

Li Shizhen's academic thinking and research methods are very distinctive, and he has improved the ancient scientific methods and accumulated new experience in scientific research on the basis of his own practical experience under the new historical conditions. Li Shizhen has successfully used the methods of observation and experimentation, comparison and classification, analysis and synthesis, critical inheritance, and historical research.

Anecdotal allusions

Li Shizhen inspected all the way, treated his parents and fellow villagers all the way, and was deeply respected and relied on by people. There is an old woman who has suffered from habitual constipation for 30 years, although there are many ways**, it has no effect. Li Shizhen used the home remedies learned from the folk and prepared the medicine with an appropriate amount of morning glory, and quickly cured her illness.

There was also a woman who had nasal bleeding that could not be stopped for a day and night, and no matter how much it was treated, it did not work. Li Shizhen used garlic slices to apply to the patient's heart, and the blood stopped bleeding after a short time. This recipe was also obtained by him from the people.