• The Xinxiu bencao (Chinese: 本草; pinyin: Xīnxiū běncǎo), also known as the Tang bencao (Chinese: 唐本草; pinyin: Táng běncǎo), is a Chinese pharmacopoeia...
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    dental amalgam first appears in the Tang dynasty medical text Xinxiu bencao (本草) written by Su Gong (苏恭) in 659, manufactured from tin and silver. Historical...
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    Materia Dietetica (Shiliao Bencao 食療本草) and the government-sponsored Newly Compiled Materia Medica (Xinxiu bencao 本草; 652) record that Tang people produced...
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    Telegraph. Aug 28, 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2016. SU, Jin (659). "卷第二 病通用药". 本草. Tsai, L. (2008). "Detailed discussion of bears used in traditional Chinese...
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    - 兕" quote: "兕,似牛。(一角,青色,重千斤。)" Theobald, Ulrich (2013), "Xinxiu Bencao 本草" for ChinaKnowledge.de - An Encyclopaedia on Chinese History, Literature...
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  • sources continued to record blue-green langgan. Su Jing's 652 Xinxiu bencao 本草 said it was a glassy substance similar to liúli 琉璃 "colored glaze; glass;...
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  • 琱玉集 [Chōgyokushū] (in Japanese). Aichi Prefecture. Retrieved 2010-10-02. 本草 仁和寺本 [Newly Revised Pharmacopoeia, Ninna-ji edition]. MAYANAGI's Laboratory...
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    dental amalgam appears in the medical text Newly Revised Herbal Foundation (《本草》, Xīnxiū Běncǎo) written by Su Gong (苏恭), manufactured from tin and silver...
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    Kaisō) Itō Keisuke (伊藤 圭介, 1803–1901), author of Western Plant Taxonomy (泰西本草名疏, Taisei Honzō Meiso) Takano Chōei (高野 長英, 1804–50), physician, dissident...
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  • Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower) This season's first Detour was a choice between 本草纲目 (Běncǎo Gāngmù – Compendium of Materia Medica) or 九章算术 (Jiǔ Zhāng Suànshù...
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