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Li Shi-zhen was a famous pharmacologist during the Ming Dynasty.
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While practising medicine and collecting the specimens of medicinal herbs,
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Li soon came to feel the need for a better understanding of the principles
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in treating disease. So he devoted himself to the task of compiling a new
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edition of the pharmacopoeia known under the generic name of Ben-cao
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Gang-mu (Compendium of Materia Medica). In order to complete this masterpiece, Li proceeded on his own, consulting many books,
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reviewing a vast quantity of literature and, wherever he happened to be, collecting necessary pharmacognostic specimens. The result
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was the Ben-cao Gang-mu, a voluminous work which took him thirty years to accomplish. The book contains 1,892 descriptions and
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11,000 prescriptions. It is generally considered as an encyclopaedia of pharmacology in ancient China.