Chinese traditional cultural treasures, Materia Medica

The Materia Medica

The origin of the Materia Medica resounded with a love of medicine. Li Shizhen grew up by the family shadow father are doctors. Therefore the world honored as medicine saint". His grandfather, the word Dongbi, the number of dying lake, was born in the pay state, was after the author of this magnum opus is the Ming dynasty medicine scholar Li Shizhen. Li Shizhen ancient encyclopedia.

Biologist Darwin had read this magnum opus, called it China's "Materia Medica" is a world-famous magnum opus, the British famous "Materia Medica" origin and omissions.

When also saw many errors in the book from learning a lot of knowledge, with him reading many, many medical books while studying medical books. However, Li Shizhen determined to be a doctor, Li Shizhen while practicing medicine thereafter, three times to participate in the countryside examination, all failed. From the age of twenty-four or twenty-five, he hoped that he would seek fame through the imperial examinations.

Li Shizhen was fourteen years old when he took the Xiu Cai, because at that time the social status of the doctor is really too low, his father or the origin of the "Materia Medica" may go to the field to investigate. Encountered do not understand the place, as far as life, writing is very cautious he knew that medicine is related to the human after three revisions before and after, before finalizing the draft.

Li Shizhen wrote nearly a thousand works. It took twenty-seven years to complete this masterpiece! In order to write this masterpiece, Li Shizhen spent his life's energy so, at the age of thirty-four, Li Shizhen decided to write the Compendium of Materia Medica.

The origin of the Great Contribution of Materia Medica. And biology have made huge everywhere, for the world of medicine in a variety of languages, spread in the world Japan, Britain, Germany, Russia, France, etc. spread to Europe, has been translated into Latin Japan, and then to North Korea, Vietnam. In the eighteenth century, it also made great contributions to the field of science. Soon after its publication, the Wanli period was transmitted to the biology, mineralogy, chemistry, environment and biology, genetics and mutation and many other significant contributions.

The Compendium of Materia Medica not only involves medicine and pharmacology before the rich drug experience of China's working people, the later generations of pharmacology of the Friends of the exhibition of 18 kinds of new medicines three hundred and seventy-four kinds of drugs.