Wudang Mountain Herbal Cuisine

Wudang Mountain Herbal Cuisine

　　Wudang Mountain boasts an extremely rich variety of medicinal plants and has long been known as a “natural treasure trove of herbs.” Among the more than 1,800 types of Chinese herbal medicines recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica by the Ming dynasty physician Li Shizhen, over 400 are found on Wudang Mountain. According to surveys, there are known to be more than 600 different types of medicinal herbs across the mountain, with musk, gastrodia elata, monkey gallbladder, coptis root, polygonatum, ganoderma lucidum, and gynostemma pentaphyllum being the most precious.