Chinese Medicinal Herbs : A Modern Edition of a Classic Sixteenth-Century Manual (Deluxe Clothbound Edition)
Автор:Shih-Chen Li Год: 2003 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 512 ISBN: 048642801, 048642801X, 048642801X Book Description Chinese scholars have been writing medical treatises for nearly 5,000 years, the grandest and most comprehensive of which is the herbal Pen T'sao, published by Li Shih-chen in 1578, after three decades of research.When Western physicians arrived in China in the mid-nineteenth century, they gained valuable insights into traditional Chinese medical practices. In the course of their daily work, they discovered that individuals often acted as their own doctors, employing natural remedies that were sufficiently effective to be worthy of research. Two doctors, C. A. Stuart and F. Porter Smith, used Li Shih-chen's Pen T'sao as their working base, translating the massive 16th-century document and annotating their translation with observations from their own experience. Chinese Medicinal Herbs has served as a basis for modern-day organic medicine and will prove of enormous interest to people in the field of alternative healing methods. A...
