Compendium of Materia Medica (Blue-and-White Special Edition) (Chinese Edition)

Compendium of Materia Medica is the masterpiece of Shizhen Li, a medical scientist in Ming Dynasty. Compendium of Materia Medica is beyond any ancient works on medical materials whether from the precise scientific classification, or from the numbers of medical materials involved and the smooth descriptions. This book is honored as ""the monumental work for Chinese medicine"", and influences greatly the modern human science and medical science.