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Zhu Su
Fifth son of the Ming founder, Prince of Zhou, who published the Materia Medica for Famine Relief in 1406, describing 414 wild plants edible in famine years.
In a dispensary, a tall wooden cabinet of many small drawers stands behind a stone mortar and pestle, with herbs hanging from the beams; a copper scale, a clay pot on a small lit stove and baskets of leaves sit in front, and one person with a basket walks in the herb garden.
Also known as Prince Ding of Zhou · Shi Ding
Zhu Su (1361–1425) was a son of the Ming founder Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Xiaoci. He was made Prince of Wu in 1370 and Prince of Zhou in 1378, with his seat at Kaifeng, and after his death was given the posthumous name Ding, so that he is called Prince Ding of Zhou. He worked on medicine and botany and compiled the Universal Relief Prescriptions, which holds 61,739 formulas. The Materia Medica for Famine Relief was published in 1406 and describes 414 wild plants edible in famine, of which 276 had not appeared in earlier herbals.
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