Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 3

Zheng Jinsheng is Professor and former Director of the China Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Literature at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.

Nalini Kirk is a sinologist as well as a Chinese medicine practitioner and instructor living in Berlin.

Paul D. Buell is an independent scholar living in Seattle, Washington.

Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz Endowment Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at Charité-Medical University Berlin. His previous books include Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy and Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text.