Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VVolume V in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 18 through 25, devoted to creeping herbs, water herbs, herbs growing on stones, mosses, and cereals. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (15181593). The culmination of a sixteen hundred year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and