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Om en kinesisk ört medicine bok
In China, we have a book called Bencao Gangmu in pinyin, 本草綱目 in Chinese charactrer. The English name for the book is Compendium of Materia Medica. It is written by Li Shizhen who has the great influence on medicine. He lived in 16th century in the ancient China. This book is about traditional Chinese medicine and it is considered one of the key achievements of ancient Chinese civilization for its wealth of information on medicine, mineralogy, botany, zoology, and natural science
The book was first published in 1593.
the picture of the book
Bencao Gangmu, this book is great to collect most plants' functions and explain what sickness or pain the plants can treat and heal. It has been over 390 years since it published to the public.
We still use this book today as the workpiece for Chinese medicine and it works too. The only difference I think between today's plants, or herbs and the ones in the old days is that nowadays all the herbs are grown up by us, not wildly. Plus the polution, it is not difficult to get to know how the function of the herbs is now.
Chinese medicine has history as this book lasts. As one part of Chinese culture, we Chinese show more respect to it and them. Chinese medicine is still alive in our daily life. Like this morning my niece was told by her grandma to have some Chinese medicine to heal her coldness. Every city and town here has one or more than one Chinese medicine hospital or clinic and pharmacies.
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