DIGITAL RESEARCH TOOLS
An interactive tool showing the regional sources of Chinese materia medica from three historical text layers, laid over dynastic maps from different periods.
Collections of drug names in 4 excavated texts, displayed against early Chinese map layers. Demonstrates influence of regionalism in production of local drug lore.
Tang dynasty materia medica by Li Xun 李珣 (855-930, style name Derun 德润), of Persian descent, and lived in Zizhou 梓州 (in Western China) Guangdond. Shows entry of many new drugs to China, especially from Central and Southeast Asia
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Capture and converts geographical information in tagged corpora with spatial coordinates metadata into geographical information. This can be converted into DocuGIS.
Searchable map of the 13th-century work by Zhao Rukuo 趙汝适, which collects of descriptions of countries, people, customs and in particular traded commodities outside China, from South East Asia and around the Indian Ocean.
Focuses on 53 Abui plants, noting their English, Abui and (where possible) scientific names; how the Abui use them as medicine; their cultural relevance to the Abui; and oral stories about how these plants got their names or became used.
Maritime Asia in the Third Century CE
A translation and analysis of the Wushi waiguo zhuan and Nanzhou yiwu zhi by Andrew Chittick
17 June 2023
Making pharmaceutical and botanical cultural heritage digitally accessible and usable
Collaborative international research community that brings together and showcases interdisciplinary research on recipes across broad temporal and geographic spans
Open access journals that feature articles on alternative and traditional medicine