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Bencao Dian
Two thousand years of Chinese herbs, formulas, and patterns — interlinked like meridians, readable one at a time.
An open educational reference for Traditional Chinese Medicine — bilingual, structured, and free to read.
One herb, one formula, one concept
Tonify the middle and augment qi·Nourish blood and calm the spirit
Qi (氣) is at once the most central and the hardest concept in Chinese medicine to render in English.