Paul D. Buell, MA (Chinese 1968), Ph.D. (1977), is part-time instructor, Dept. of History, Anthropology and Philosophy at the University of North Georgia, Dahlonega. Mongolist, Turkologist, Sinologist. Author or co-author of books on medicine, food history and history.
Eugene N. Anderson, Ph.D. (1967), is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He has written several books about Chinese environmental and food history and about ethnobiology.

The Huihui Yaofang was an encyclopaedia of Near Eastern medicine compiled under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty for the benefit of themselves and Chinese medical establishments. We translate the surviving material and context it in the history and ethnobiology of the medicine described.