本草正义
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本草正义

📅 清👤 Zhang Shanlei
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Original

正其名实,辨其寒温。

Translation

The various writers on materia medica hold conflicting opinions, some lapsing into conjecture. Now I adjudicate their rights and wrongs and find the balanced, correct view, so that the true nature of each medicinal becomes clear and users are no longer confused.

📝 Commentary

Zhang Shanlei's early-modern masterwork of materia medica criticism. It sets out to judge the conflicting claims of earlier writers and establish balanced, correct understanding.

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