Bamboo Slips from Formulas for a Hundred Diseases
Eastern Han Dynasty
Unearthed in the Han-tanpo area,Wuwei county,Gansu Province,in November 1972.There is a total of 92 slips.one of which bears only the words "Formulas for a Hundred Diseases."apparently the title.There are some 30 complete formulas,including over one hundred kinds of herbal drugs compounded in the forms of powders,pastes,pills,and pellets.The manuscript includes titles of ailments,symptoms,pathological changes.and compounded forms of medicine,reflecting practical medicine since the Western Han Dynasty.(Collection of Gansu Provincial Museum)