Shinnongbonchogyeong(神農本草經), taking its name from the ancient emperor Shinnong(神農) is one of the first books specializing herbal medicine. Shinnong is a legendary figure who was one of the famous ‘Three Great Emperors and Five Kings’, and the Chinese have long bel...
Shinnongbonchogyeong(神農本草經), taking its name from the ancient emperor Shinnong(神農) is one of the first books specializing herbal medicine. Shinnong is a legendary figure who was one of the famous ‘Three Great Emperors and Five Kings’, and the Chinese have long believed that it was Shinnong who began agriculture. Likewise in their belief system, Bokhee(伏羲) created Yeokgyeong(易經), Shinnong created Bonchogyeong(本草經), and Yellow Emperor(黃帝) created Naegyeong(內經). According to the record, Shinnongbonchogyeong disappeared after the Song(宋) Dynasty due to either it was replaced by the newly published Dangboncho(唐本草) and Songboncho(宋本草) as they gained more popularity, or the few of the remaining volumes of the book got completely lost during wartime. The attempts to reconstruct the book had continued, Wang Yeom(王炎) started to compile Shinnongbonchogyeong in Song Dynasty. No Bok(盧復) in Myong(明) Dynasty continued the work by utilizing the contents of Bonchogangmok(本草綱目). However these compiled volumes were not passed down the generations to come. An epigraphist Son Sung-yeon(孫星淵) in Chung(淸) Dynasty succeeded in recovering some of the compilations. Shinnongbonchogyeong have long been pursued by the scholars not only for its accumulated knowledge of herbal medicine but also for its unprecedented use of new concepts: the classification of medicine into three grades(三品分類法), identifying the pivotal medicine among four groups (the essential, the assisting, the supplementing, and the auxiliary:君臣佐使), the use of the seven passions(七情) to describe the correlated effect of medicine to the patients, the implementation of four kinds of Gi(氣)'s to categorize(hot, warm, cool, and cold disposition of medicine:四氣), and five tastes theory(bitter, sweet, salty, sour, spicy:五味). These classification of medicine still hold valid for the modern oriental herbology. With these revolutionary concepts and many scholars’ added research, Shinnongbonchogyeong became the backbone of the modern oriental herbology. There are several editions of Shinnongbonchogyeong, and the three most well-known authors are Son Sung-yeon(孫星淵), Sam Lip-Ji(森立之), and Ko Guan-guang(顧觀光). This dissertation is based on Son Sung-yeon and Sam Lip-Ji’s edition of Shinnongbonchogyeong. The first chapter will explore the subject on how the book was complied and its authors, the second chapter deals with comparable oriental medicinal herbology publications, and the third chapter expounds the concepts described in Shinnongbonchogyeong.
Shinnongbonchogyeong(神農本草經), taking its name from the ancient emperor Shinnong(神農) is one of the first books specializing herbal medicine. Shinnong is a legendary figure who was one of the famous ‘Three Great Emperors and Five Kings’, and the Chinese have long believed that it was Shinnong who began agriculture. Likewise in their belief system, Bokhee(伏羲) created Yeokgyeong(易經), Shinnong created Bonchogyeong(本草經), and Yellow Emperor(黃帝) created Naegyeong(內經). According to the record, Shinnongbonchogyeong disappeared after the Song(宋) Dynasty due to either it was replaced by the newly published Dangboncho(唐本草) and Songboncho(宋本草) as they gained more popularity, or the few of the remaining volumes of the book got completely lost during wartime. The attempts to reconstruct the book had continued, Wang Yeom(王炎) started to compile Shinnongbonchogyeong in Song Dynasty. No Bok(盧復) in Myong(明) Dynasty continued the work by utilizing the contents of Bonchogangmok(本草綱目). However these compiled volumes were not passed down the generations to come. An epigraphist Son Sung-yeon(孫星淵) in Chung(淸) Dynasty succeeded in recovering some of the compilations. Shinnongbonchogyeong have long been pursued by the scholars not only for its accumulated knowledge of herbal medicine but also for its unprecedented use of new concepts: the classification of medicine into three grades(三品分類法), identifying the pivotal medicine among four groups (the essential, the assisting, the supplementing, and the auxiliary:君臣佐使), the use of the seven passions(七情) to describe the correlated effect of medicine to the patients, the implementation of four kinds of Gi(氣)'s to categorize(hot, warm, cool, and cold disposition of medicine:四氣), and five tastes theory(bitter, sweet, salty, sour, spicy:五味). These classification of medicine still hold valid for the modern oriental herbology. With these revolutionary concepts and many scholars’ added research, Shinnongbonchogyeong became the backbone of the modern oriental herbology. There are several editions of Shinnongbonchogyeong, and the three most well-known authors are Son Sung-yeon(孫星淵), Sam Lip-Ji(森立之), and Ko Guan-guang(顧觀光). This dissertation is based on Son Sung-yeon and Sam Lip-Ji’s edition of Shinnongbonchogyeong. The first chapter will explore the subject on how the book was complied and its authors, the second chapter deals with comparable oriental medicinal herbology publications, and the third chapter expounds the concepts described in Shinnongbonchogyeong.
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