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Mount Wudang: a treasure house of medical herbs - PikerLaureience - 04-17-2022 Wudang abounds in its rich reservation of more than 2,000 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine. We can use "herb ocean" to tag the imposing mountains. As earlier as in Ming Dynasty the great Chinese doctor Lee Shi Zhen, who wrote the book An Outline Treatise of Medical Herbs, traveled a lot within mountain ridges to collect various herbs. In his recording there were around 400 kinds of herbs to be available for medical application. As of today by the recording from the book Medical Herbs of China Wudang there have altogether 2,518 medical herbs to be found within the big mountains, 536 kinds more than all herbs listed in An Outline Treatise of Medical Herbs. Some herbs remain special locally and more interesting thing is many kinds feature special medical application and cannot be admitted in the traditional Chinese herbal system. Up to date more and more people begin to work upon the project to dig into the rich resources for better serving common people, among them Wang Dao Ke, Chen Ji Yan are the representative figures.There left several caves in the southern side of Wudang where the doctor Lee Shi Zhen once stayed for sheltering.From now on we will progressively introduce some common and localized medical herbs for people to understand: