Achievements of the Compendium Bencao Tujing (Illustrated Classic of Materia Medica): A Preliminary Study

• Main Authors: Lin-Lin Xiu (Author), Shi-Chun Xu (Author), Qi-Xuan Wang (Author), Shao-Hong Chen (Author), Hai-Yan Liu (Author), Gan-Sheng Zhong (Author), Su Lin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Health/LWW, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract. Bencao Tujing (Illustrated Classic of Materia Medica) is a brilliant and monumental compendium of materia medica by Su Song, which was published in 1061 and gathered ancestral knowledge from the Song dynasty as a legacy for posterity. The compendium emphasized the clinical applications of...