Compendium of Materia Medica
Li Shizhen borrowed Zhu's Compendium of Materia Medica as a mirror and named it Compendium of Materia Medica. It was compiled in the thirty-first year of Jiajing (1552) and completed in the sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1578), which lasted for 27 years.
Compendium of Materia Medica consists of 16 parts, 52 volumes and about 1.9 million words. The book contains 15 18 kinds of drugs collected from various herbs, and 374 kinds of drugs are added on the basis of predecessors, accounting for 1892 kinds, including 1 195 kinds of plants; * * * Collected 1 1096 ancient pharmacists' prescriptions and folk prescriptions; There are more than 1 100 pictures of drug morphology in front of the book. This masterpiece has absorbed the essence of herbal works of past dynasties, corrected the previous mistakes as much as possible, supplemented the shortcomings, and made many important discoveries and breakthroughs. It is the most systematic, complete and scientific medical work in China up to16th century.
Li Shizhen broke the 1000-year-old classification of upper, middle and lower products since Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, and divided drugs into water, fire, soil, stone, grass, grain, lai, fruit, wood, utensils, insects, scales, vectors, birds, animals and people, with a total of 16. The proper name of each drug label is the outline, and the following items of the outline are clear. The book also systematically introduces the knowledge of various drugs. Including corrections, name explanations, explanations, corrections, treatments, smells, indications, inventions, appendices, prescriptions, etc. The history, morphology, function and prescription of drugs were elaborated in detail, which enriched the knowledge of materia medica.
According to Mr. Ma's research, the artificial classification established by Li Shizhen in botany is a scientific method to classify plants with similar practicality and morphology into various types and classify them step by step. Li Shizhen classified 1000 plants according to their different economic uses, postures, habits and inclusions. It is divided into five parts (i.e. grass, orders, vegetables, fruits and grains), then into 30 categories (e.g. grass 9, wood 6, vegetables and fruits 7, orders and grains 5), and then into several categories. It not only implies the genetic relationship between plants, but also unifies the naming methods of many plants.
Compendium of Materia Medica not only made great contributions to the development of pharmacology in China, but also had a far-reaching impact on the development of medicine, botany, zoology, mineralogy and chemistry in the world. It has been translated into more than ten languages such as Japanese, French, German, English, Latin, Russian and Korean, and published abroad. This book creates a classification system of drugs step by step according to their natural properties. This classification method is one of the important methods of modern biological taxonomy, which is one and a half centuries earlier than the Natural System written by Linnai, the founder of modern plant taxonomy, and is known as the "Dictionary of Oriental Medicine". 20 1 1 in may, Jinling edition of compendium of materia medica was selected into the memory of the world.
Lakeside pulse science
Li Shizhen felt that there were many shortcomings or even fallacies in the pulse science of TCM at that time, so in 1564 (forty-three years of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty), he compiled Pulse Tactics, namely, Pulse Science of Hu Ling, based on the Invention of Four Diagnoses written by his father Li Yuechi and other pulse theories in history.
Lakeside Veins was written by Li Shizhen in his later years, and it is called Lakeside Veins. The pulse of Hu Ling is concise in language and clear in pulse theory. It not only sums up the clinical complex pulse conditions into 27 basic pulse conditions, but also writes the main contents, namely pulse conditions, syndrome differentiation and pulse conditions, in the form of rhymes and songs, which is cheap to recite. Therefore, his books are widely circulated in the world and have been highly praised by doctors. Pulse on the Lake is of great guiding significance to the basic theoretical research and clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is a model of traditional Chinese medicine.
Classic prescription lotion
When the autumn dew is heavy, I will collect it from flowers and plants in the early morning. It smells sweet and non-toxic.
Indications: It can be used to decoct drugs for moistening lung and killing insects, or made into powder for external use to treat scabies and boils, which can enhance the curative effect.
1 Baihualu: quench your thirst.
② Baihualu: It can make the skin healthy.
3 Bailu and Acorus calamus: Washing your eyes every morning can enhance your eyesight.
4 leek leaf dew: cure vitiligo. Apply it to the affected area every morning. Mingshui explanation: also known as Fang Zhushui. Zhu Fang is the name of a giant clam. On the night of the moon, you can catch all the squares and store water in its shell, which is clear and pure, that is, all the squares are water. The smell is sweet, cold and nontoxic. Indications: It can be used to wash eyes, remove fog and improve eyesight. Drinking this water can also soothe the nerves and relieve children's irritability.