What is Bencao Gangmu

Li Shizhen ( 15)8 1593), a famous physician and pharmacologist in the Ming Dynasty.wrote Bencao Gangmu ( Compendium of Materio Medico ) This book consists of 52 volumes. including 1 892 medicinal herbs, over l0 000 prescriptions and 1 000 illustrations of medicinal items. It also deals with botany, zoology, mineralogy, physics, astronomy, meteorology, etc. This compendium is recognized as a moflumentai work in the history of Chinese materia medica and a great contribution to the development of pharmacology in the world.