Bencao Gangmu

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The Bencao gangmu, known in English as the Compendium of Materia Medica or Great Pharmacopoeia, is an encyclopedic gathering of medicine, natural history, and Chinese herbology compiled and edited by Li Shizhen and published in the late 16th century, during the Ming dynasty.

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Image: Li Shizhen ( 李時珍 ), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.