Chinese Materia Medica books

By carefully monitoring the body s reactions to herbal products, effective and safe TCM formulations have been developed and recorded in Food Recipe and Chinese Materia Medica books, including three literary classics Shen Nung... 

In Chinese traditional medicinal books such as Shen Nong s Herbal compendium of Chinese Materia Medica and Dictionary of Chinese Materia... 

Zhongzhen, Z. An illustrated Chinese materia medica in Hong Kong, 1st edn. Chung Hwa Book Co, Hong Kong (2004)... 

The first copy of this book was published in A.D. 70. Dioscorides called it a materia medica and it became to the Western world what the Pen Ts ao was to the Chinese. It identified each of the plants listed according to its native habitat and the names by which it was known. Peculiar features were then noted, and finally, symptoms and conditions for which the plant had proven beneficial were described. 

The center of origin of soybean is considered to be China. They are described in the book Materia Medica She-non written over 5000 years ago.2 It is referred to as tchouan in the Chinese dictionary of Sui Sham. The dictionary of Kouan-gia, which dates to the beginning of the Christian Era, refers to it as ta-teou... 

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