本草

a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica

root / stem / origin / source / this / the current / original / inherent / originally / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

variant of 草[cao3]

grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]

variant of 肏[cao4]

Tang dynasty compendium of herbal medicine

Shennong's Compendium of Materia Medica, a Han dynasty pharmacological compendium, 3 scrolls

Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍[Li3 Shi2 zhen1]