谈《本草纲目》载药数

The Number of Chinese Medicines Recorded in"Compendium of Materia Medica

各种教材皆谓《本草纲目》载药1892种。作者经过多年的潜心钻研,认为1892种只是《本草纲目》的“纲”数,实际收载药物应为3440种。

All varieties of teaching materials says there are 1892 kinds of Chinese medicines recorded in the book of 'Compendium of Materia Medica',in fact this is only the number of the chapters of the book. According to the authors'statistics, there are 3440 kinds of Chinese medicines accutally recorded in the book