Qíchūn

Qíchūn lies north of the Yangtze in eastern Húběi, in the country of old Qízhōu. It was the home of Lǐ Shízhēn, the Míng physician and scholar of medicines. Drawing on hundreds of earlier works and his own experience, he spent decades compiling the #italic Compendium of Materia Medica#!, a vast account of medicinal substances and their uses.