所谓陈氏即陈藏器,唐代药物学家,四明(浙江鄞县)人,约生于公元八世纪,曾做过京兆府三原县尉之类的小官。他兼通医药学,对本草学更有精邃研究。他发现《唐本草》即《新修本草》的缺漏或讹误仍较多,便决心拾遗补缺,增新纠缪,经过 The so-called Chen’s Tibetan instrument, the Tang Dynasty pharmacologist, was born in the Ming Dynasty (Ji County, Zhejiang Province). He was born in the 8th century AD and he has worked as a small official in the Sanyuan County of Jingzhao Prefecture. He is a communicator in medicine and has a more thorough research on herbal medicine. He found that “Tang Materia Medica” or “Newly Revised Materia Medica” still contains many missing or falsehoods, and he is determined to make up for the shortages and add new ones.