Shiliao bencao

The Shiliao bencao ( Chinese 食疗本草 , Pinyin Shíliáo běncǎo - "Edible medicinal plants from diet therapy") was written by Meng Shen ( 孟诜 ) (621–713) from the time of the Tang Dynasty and supplemented by Zhang Ding ( 张鼎 ) (8th century). It consisted of three booklets (juan) and dates from about the year 686. It is one of the earliest dietetic works in Chinese medicine.

The entire work contained 227 foods used for both edible and dietetic purposes. The original is lost, a current compilation of lost texts from it brings it to 260. The properties of the medicine, effects, contraindications and simple recipes are given under each point.

Original title

The original title of the work was Buyang fang ( 补养方 - "tonic recipes"). Zhang Ding ( 张鼎 ) has added 89 recipes to a total of 227 recipes. That's why it was renamed to its current name.

Lore

According to the Han-De yixue da cidian , “ some texts can still be found in“ Classified Medicinal Herbs ”and“ Ishinpo ”by Yasurori Tanba (912-995), a well-known Japanese doctor. “The first-mentioned work is the Chinese work known by its acronym called Zhenglei bencao ( 证类本草 ) and the Japanese book called Ishimpō . In 1907 a manuscript of the text was discovered in Dunhuang , which was published by the famous Chinese researcher Luo Zhenyu ( 罗珍玉 ) under the title Dunhuang shiwo suijin ( 敦煌石室碎金 ).

expenditure

In 1984 the Beijing publishing house Renmin weisheng chubanshe published a critical edition by Xie Haizhou ( 谢海州 ) and Ma Jixing ( 马继兴 ) et al. which includes the texts of the above works and the Dunhuang manuscript. The work is also included in the Japanese book series Chugoku shokkei sosho .

Web links

V. Lo, P. Barrett: Cooking up fine remedies: on the culinary aesthetic in a sixteenth-century Chinese Materia Medica. In: Medical history. Volume 49, Number 4, October 2005, pp. 395-422, ISSN 0025-7273 . PMID 16562328 . PMC 1251637 (free full text).
shen-nong.com: "TCM Chronology" (engl.)

literature

Han-De yixue da cidian ; ISBN 7117022086
Hsing-Tsung Huang: Fermentations and Food Science , Part 5 of Biology and Biological Technology, Volume 6 of Science and Civilization in China, edited by Joseph Needham. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-65270-7
Zhongguo pengren baike quanshu , p. 528
Zhongguo pengren cidian , p. 660
Zhongguo pengren wenxian tiyao , No. 16
Zhongguo shijing , p. 866

Individual evidence

↑ Zhongguo pengren cidian, p. 660
↑ See Han-De yixue da cidian (Chinese-German dictionary of medicine) keyword “Shiliao bencao”! Much of the information in this work, like this one, is slightly in need of revision, but leads close to what is meant. Needham / Huang speaks of the Ishinhō des Tamba no Yasuyori .

[1] Zhongguo pengren cidian, p. 660

[2] See Han-De yixue da cidian (Chinese-German dictionary of medicine) keyword “Shiliao bencao”! Much of the information in this work, like this one, is slightly in need of revision, but leads close to what is meant. Needham / Huang speaks of the Ishinhō des Tamba no Yasuyori .