The earliest Chinese herbal monographs

originally the card of such materia

      The certificate of song dynasty famous of materia TangShen pharmaceutical home is slightly (about 1056 in) -- 1,093 compiled. Encyclopedia of 3l volumes, posted a (various drug 1746 or followed the digital versions). For drugs in the book the utility, alias, chief, origin, collecting, processing, discrimination, and with party detail records, enclosed 294 picture medicine figure is more subtle. 1108 years (grand YiSheng printed by two years) when ChenCheng compendium of materia don't say "add the contents, called the after the history of such grand issuing materia medica. 1116 years (such as politics and six years) CaoXiaoZhong reconstituted into 30 volumes, the school magazine called in politics after the history of materia medica of issuing spare. 1159 department WangJiGuang twenty-nine years) in (shaoxing again, such as the revised supplemented by the name of shaoxing set for urgent materia of history certificate ", for the 32 volumes. Since then and there are many versions, the title or change, but the basic content without big changes.

      This book is YuXi in the hands of the watershed SuSong materia medica sino-forest by the graph and the basis of materia medica ", collected folk prescription and their medical classics such as "tang materia", "shu materia", "Chen zang ware materia", meng of the herbal supplements agreeable freedom than 500 documents, and adopted the treaty of some content of gun char, and after the history legend, ShuDao Tibetan Buddhism in the book BenCaoXue each related knowledge of and compiled, try to be finishing. It content accurately huge scale, well-read, numerous, herbs and drugs, systematic summarizes the achievements of the northern song dynasty before materia medica. It is not only an important in ancient China medical literature, China is the only the earliest originally form survived herbal monographs.