Archive for the 'Materia Medica Outline' Category

Women More Likely to Suffer From Stable Angina Heart Disease

Women More Likely to Suffer From Stable Angina Heart Disease. Chest Pain More Common in Women. Men might have more heart attacks, but women are more likely to suffer chest pain as a potential first sign of heart disease.
A new international study shows women are 20% more likely than men to suffer from chest pain, [...]

Materia Medica Outline Ben Cao Gang Mu by Li Shi Zhen

Ben Cao Gang Mu (Materia Medica  Outline)﹐本草綱目,  a dictionary of Chinese herbs, written by Li Shi Zhen (1518-1593)。It consists of 52 volumes, with more than 1.9 million characters and more than one thousand and one hundred pictures. The book lists 1,892 medical material of herbs, animals and mineral with11,096 formulae being used in the past. [...]