Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

I. Introduction
1. The Ben cao gang mu Project
2. The Two Conflicting Origins of Chinese Medicine and Pharmaceutics
3. Chinese Materia Medica Literature
4. The Sources Cited4.1. Materia Medica and Medical Texts4.3 Sources Beyond Materia Medica and Medical Literature5. The Dictionary Entries5.1. Bibliographical Entries:5.2. Biographical Entries:
II. Persons and Literary Sources

III. Appendices
Appendix A
Chinese Dynasties
Appendix B
Index of Substance Entry (SE) in Alphabetical Order
Appendix C
List of Entries of Names of Persons
Appendix D
List of Entries of Literary Sources

About the Author

Zheng Jinsheng is Professor and former Director of the China Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Literature at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.

Nalini Kirk is a sinologist as well as a Chinese medicine practitioner and instructor living in Berlin.

Paul D. Buell is an independent scholar living in Seattle, Washington.

Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz Endowment Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at Charité-Medical University Berlin. His previous books include Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy and Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text.