本草备要
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本草备要
📅 清👤 Wang Ang
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Original (Classical Chinese)
药有气味厚薄之殊。
Pinyin
Yào yǒu qì wèi hòu báo zhī shū.
English Translation
A materia medica is valued for being concise and practical. This compilation takes four hundred essential medicinals and records their natures, flavors and actions, so that students may recite and study them and consult them at the bedside without the burden of a vast, hard-to-read text.
📝 Commentary
Wang Ang's practical Qing materia medica. It explains its principle of concise practicality: four hundred essential medicinals presented for easy study and clinical use.