[Analysis of the way of thinking on pharmacology in Lu Zhiyi's Bencao Chengya Banji].

More than 410 kinds of prescriptions of medicines were presented, some of which were collected in Shennong Bencao Jing(, Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica) and other herbal works, are included in Lu Zhiyi's Bencao Chengya Banji(). He introduced the indications of these medicines by focusing on the name of the herbs, or the species of them, and the features and growth morphology of the herbs. He abstracted the efficacy of drugs on the human body. Therefore, he noted the indications of all the medicines list in the book.