Student's Encyclopedia of Chinese Herbology, Paperback by Lu, Henry C., Like ...

by Henry Lu

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Student's Encyclopedia of Chinese Herbology, Paperback by Lu, Henry C., ISBN 1492907898, ISBN-13 9781492907893, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Who discovered Chinese herbs? Chinese legend had it that many millenniums before Christ, there lived five great emperors in China, the Emperor of Fire who had invented fire for heating and cooking, the Emperor of Fishing and Hunting who had taught the Chinese people how to fish and hunt and to raise livestock, the Emperor of Nine Needles who had invented nine kinds of needles for use in acupuncture, the Emperor of Cookery who had taught the Chinese people how to cook foods and prepare meals, and the Emperor of Agriculture who had taught them how to cultivate land and raise crops. It was the Emperor of Agriculture who had directed the Chinese people to collect herbs and use them to heal Chinese classic entitled, the Huai Nan Taoist written jointly by a number of authors and published in the West Han Dynasty (209 25 .) stated, "The Emperor of Agriculture had tasted one hundred medicinal plants to determine their effects and drunk water from fountains to see if it was sweet or bitter, in order that the people would avoid those which were bad and take those which were good for them. In the middle of doing this, the Emperor of Agriculture had been poisoned seventy times each day."Thus, Chinese herbs have been used for treatment of diseases for thousands of years in China; it dates back to the very ancient period of Chinese history w

• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Year: 2013
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781492907893
• Condition: Fine

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