Compendium of Materia Medica is a comprehensive collation of Materia Medica by Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in Ming Dynasty, with his lifelong energy, personal experience and extensive knowledge, and is known as the "Dictionary of Oriental Pharmacy". At the same time, it is also a masterpiece of food health preservation in China Medical Library, which records more than 7,000 kinds of medical theories and attached prescriptions related to intelligence, longevity, anti-aging and longevity. It is a veritable book of health preservation. Compendium of Materia Medica, a medical health-preserving book read by celebrities at all times and all over the world, is a masterpiece of China's ancient natural science wisdom, and certainly attracts the attention of people of insight from all walks of life. For hundreds of years, countries all over the world have been studying it extensively, and many historical celebrities at home and abroad are studying it seriously. There is no doubt that they all saw the great value contained in it, so they all publicized Compendium of Materia Medica. For example, Guo Moruo respects it as "the sage of medicine" and praises it as a collection of China medicine, which will benefit the people and will be with the national life; Lu Xun said that it "left great benefits to future generations"; Darwin, a British biologist and founder of the theory of evolution, called it "the ancient encyclopedia of China". 1604, Compendium of Materia Medica, a world-famous encyclopedia of oriental pharmacy, was introduced to Japan, becoming a guiding document for Japanese scholars to carry out scientific, educational and medical practice. 1606, North Korea published Compendium of Materia Medica. 1650, Compendium of Materia Medica was published in Vienna, which started the study of Compendium of Materia Medica in Europe. 1736, the French published the Chronicle of the Chinese Empire, the third volume of which was taken from Compendium of Materia Medica, which is said to represent the highest level of natural science in China and even the world at that time. Darwin's theory of evolution quoted the theory and examples of Compendium of Materia Medica. 20 1 1 On May 23rd, UNESCO selected Compendium of Materia Medica into the Memory of the World, which marked the first time that China's literature on traditional Chinese medicine was recognized all over the world. Source: New Legend