Chapter 3 Kingdom of Medicinal Resources

P rofessor Zhan Yahua, a traditional Chinese medicine expert at the Hubei University of Chinese Medicine,is very familiar with medicinal resources in Shennongjia,such as Dendranthema indicum,Sanqi(Panax notoginseng),Panax ginseng,Liliaceae,and so on.He,together with Huang Luqi from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Professor Zhang Daigui from Jishou University,edited a book entitled The Checklist of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources in Shennongjia,which has 4.5 million words and contains nearly 10,000 photographs of Chinese medicinal plants.It also introduces the species of medicinal resources in Shennongjia, including medicinal plants,animals,and minerals that total3,205 species.

In the ancient times,many Chinese and foreign medicine experts came to Shennongjia to collect medicinal herbs.According to The Historical Records of Shengnongjia , “Li Shizhen, an outstanding medical scholar in ancient China,went to Shennongjia and other desolate medicine producing areas in order to collect herbal medicines from Jiajing 42ndto Longqing 1st(i.e.1563-1567).”Much of the introduction to the origin of Chinese medicines recorded in Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Materia Medica involves Shennongjia.

第三章藥材王國

“神農香菊、三七類、人參屬、七葉一枝花......”談起神農架的中藥材資源，湖北中醫藥大學中藥學專家詹亞華教授如數家珍。他編有《中國神農架中藥資源》，與中國工程院院士黃璐琦、吉首大學教授張代貴聯合主編的《神農架中藥資源圖志》，全篇約450萬字，收錄彩照近10000幅，重點介紹神農架藥用資源種類，涵蓋藥用植物、動物和礦物資源，共計3205種。

古往今來，中外藥材專家紛紛入神農架采藥。據《神農架志》記載:"嘉靖四十二年至隆慶元年（1563-1572），中國古代杰出的醫學家李時珍為尋找藥物，足涉廖無人跡的神農架等藥材產地"。《本草綱目》對中草藥的產地介紹，大多涉及泛神農架地區。

神農谷之春 Spring in Shennong Valley