The transmission of foreign medicine via the Silk Roads in Medieval China: A case study of Haiyao bencao

Asian Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 241-264

  Ming, Chen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Haiyao Bencao; Li Xun; Materia medica; Persian; Tang

Indexed keywords

EID: 46949085773     PISSN: 1573420X     EISSN: 15734218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157342008X307866     Document Type: Review

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