Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Plants and Trees
三才圖會(一百)
First Translation
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches of the UNESCO Index Translationum, Open Library, and other scholarly catalogs yielded no results for an English translation of the 'Sancai Tuhui' or its 'Plants and Trees' (Caomu) section. While this monumental Ming Dynasty encyclopedia is frequently cited and partially excerpted in academic works such as Joseph Needham's 'Science and Civilisation in China', no standalone or complete English translation of this specific section exists.
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Step into the lush, woodcut-illustrated world of the Ming Dynasty’s most ambitious encyclopedia to discover the secrets of ancient Chinese herbology. This volume of the Sancai Tuhui bridges the gap between art and science, revealing how Ming scholars identified, harvested, and transformed common flora into potent cures for everything from legendary poisons to systemic imbalances.
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