Li Shizhen, a great physician and pharmacologist in ancient China, consulted more than 800 books on medicine and its academic research in the past dynasties, and combined with his own experience and investigation, compiled the Compendium of Materia Medica, which lasted for 27 years. It is a summary masterpiece of ancient pharmacology in China, and it has been highly praised at home and abroad. There have been several translations or excerpts, and one book is Hu Ling Pulse.
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Li Shizhen's main achievements
Li Shizhen attaches great importance to clinic, respects Zhang, re-distinguishes diseases and syndromes, strictly legislates and uses drugs rationally. In the treatment, it is more effective to modify the ancient prescription, or formulate a new prescription, or use a folk prescription.
Li Shizhen's academic thoughts and research methods are very distinctive. Under the new historical conditions, according to his practical experience, he improved the ancient scientific methods and accumulated new scientific research experience. Li Shizhen successfully used the methods of observation and experiment, comparison and classification, analysis and synthesis, critical inheritance and historical textual research.
Li Shizhen's method of personally collecting and carefully observing drugs to get the truth was very successful. Classification is an important task of scientific research, and the key to systematization of drug research is how to establish classification standards.
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