本草綱目从李时珍生前就有刊行。1592年出版的金陵本又称胡承龙本算是第一本。自此以后,在明未亡前就曾印行了七、八版。明亡以后,各地书商及好事者紛紛翻刻,历年重印的不下数十种。其中图版紙墨及校勘方面优劣至为不齐,但皆从李时珍原版刊印,未敢有所增刪或篡改,可以說都是“正本”。独在1885年由合肥张紹棠所重印的本草綱目(即所謂“味古斋本”俗称“光緒版”),师心妄作,大事更张,遂造成第一部“誤本”。而以后踵訛承謬的有五、六种之多,并且都是現在流行最 The Compendium of Materia Medica was published before Li Shizhen’s birth. Jinling, published in 1592, also called Hu Chenglong as the first book. Since then, seven or eight editions have been printed before the death. After the Ming Dynasty, book sellers and good people from all over the country turned their engraved pictures. There were no fewer than a dozen of reprints. The advantages and disadvantages of the paper and ink on the plates were uneven, but they were all printed from the original version of Li Shizhen. They did not dare to add, delete, or tamper with them. It could be said that they were all “original”. In 1885, the Compendium of Materia Medica reprinted by Hefei Zhang Shaoqi (the so-called “Weigu Zhaiben”, commonly known as “Guangxu Version”), made a masterpiece, made a major event, and created the first “misunderstanding”. ". After that, there are as many as five or six different types of cranes and they are now the most popular ones.