论《本草》与化工矿产

医学史上,中国古代人类利用矿石类入药,应晚于植物类。最早记录医药矿物的专著为东汉末年的《神农本草经》,至明万历年间李时珍的《本草纲目》中已记载了217种无机药物。其中大部分为与化工矿产相关的(岩石)矿物。王嘉荫教授1957年曾对《本草纲目》中的矿石类药物进行了系统的鉴别。为了使药用矿物的界定更加准确、规范,将相关中药名与矿物名加以对照,将常用中药矿石类药物特征及化工矿产医药用途分别进行系统归纳,对中医药与矿物相结合的研究及进一步开拓化工矿产资源利用途径是有益的。

ON Compendium ofMateria Medica AND CHEMICAL MINERALS

In a medical history, ancient Chinese should not take natural minerals earlier than natural plants as medical drugs. The first book including medical minerals in China is believed to be Shen Nong's Herbal at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. By the reign of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, compendium of materia medica by Li Shizhen had included 217 inorganic drugs among which most were involved into chemical minerals or rocks. The medical minerals described in the compendium were discriminated systematically by Professor Wang Jiayin in 1957. The present article also checks names of traditional Chinese drugs against the related minerals and sums up characteristics of common medical minerals and medical uses of chemical minerals for the sake of more accurate and standardized definition of medical minerals. To do this way will be beneficial to the studies of how to combine traditional Chinese medicine with minerals and to make more use of chemical mineral resources.