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| Name | The Earliest Chinese Material Medica Part 2! Reading the Shennong Bencao Jing 《神農本草經》! |
| Video Uploader | Video From Visual Wenyan |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 15-03-2024 22:14:05 |
| Video Discription | This is my second video in my series on Classical Chinese Medical texts. If you are interested in the foundations of Chinese medicine, alchemy, botany, even minerology, this series may be of interest. Today we're looking at the Shennong Bencao Jing 神農本草經, or "Materia Medica of Shennong, the Divine Farmer". The work consists of 4 sections: a preface and three sections of descriptions of the qualities of medicines and their usage. The text is the earliest Sinitic medical treatise, with its compilations roughly dating to the Warring States period. However, the original text is no longer extant, so the version which we are using here was reconstructed from later medical texts which quote this earlier one. The line that we will be analyzing in today's video is the second and third section of the preface: 中藥一百二十種為臣，主養性以應人，無毒，有毒，斟酌其宜，欲遏病補虛羸者，本《中經》。 下藥一百二十五種為佐使，主治病以應地，多毒，不可久服，欲除寒熱邪氣、破積聚、愈疾者，本《下經》。 The version of the full text that we will be using is freely available on wikisource: https://bit.ly/3VpZBtU |
| Category | Education |
| Tags | Chinese Medicine | Bencao | 中药 | 中藥 | 本草 | Materia Medica | Zhong yao | Zhongyao | Shennong | 神农 | 神農 | longevity | medical theory |
