Historical Perspective of Traditional Indigenous Medical Practices: The Current Renaissance and Conservation of Herbal Resources

Table 1

Some important texts in the historical developmental process of Chinese materia medica [33, 34].

Lectures	Issued date	Total	Plant	Animal	Mineral	Processing products	Formulae	Other
52 Bing-Fang	200 BCE	247	115	48	21			63
Shen-Nong-Ben-Cao-Jing	202 BCE–220	365	252	67	46
Xin-Xiou-Ben-Cao	659	850	635	128	87
Zheng-Lei-Ben-Cao	1082	1,746	1,151	342	253		>3,000
Ben-Cao-Gang-Mu	1596	1,892	1,094	443	161		11,096	194
Znong-Yao-Da-Ci-Dian	1977	5,767	4,773	740	82	172
Zhong-Hua-Ben-Cao	1999	8,980	7,815	1,051	114
Chinese Pharmacopoeia	2010	2,165	680	36	18	1,384		47