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Medicinal Pillow
Medicinal pillows were long in use in traditional Chinese medicine.Modern medical science has proved that the efficacious ingredients of the medicinal herbs stuffed into such pillows can volatilise,penetrate the acupuncture points and be absorbed by...
Caterpillar Fungus
A native product of Qinghai Plateau,the caterpillar fungus is known asWinter Insect and Summer Grass.As the name suggests,it is an insect hibernating in frozen soil in winter,and when summer begins to set in in late may and people begin to gather it...
Pilose Antler
Northeast China is known for its three treasures.Pilose Antler,a precious medicine,is among them.The other two are ginseng and marten pelt.But pilose antlers,which are so tender it has not ossificated and filled with blood capillaries,grow only on yo...
Ginseng
Ginseng,reputedly theking of hundred herbs,has been regarded as the ideal tonic since ancient times.A ginseng looks very much like the human body as it is complete with a head and limbs. Ginseng today is either collected from the wilderness or culti...
Acupuncture and Moxibustion
Acupuncture and moxibustion were invented in China as means of medical treatment for more than 2,000 years.Acupuncture involves the insertion of needle tips into the skin at specific points for the purpose of treating disorders by stimulating nerve...
Cupping
Also known popularly as cup pulling and suction cups,cupping is a unique old means of medical treatment that has been around for a long time in China.In the very beginning,the cups were bullhorns smoothed and perforated with tiny holes to be used to...
Traditional Chinese Medicine
A medical science for the treatment and prevention of diseases by applying unique Chinese medical theories and prescription drugs that had been formulated as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods(770-221 B.C.).The Yellow Emperor'...
Channels and Collaterals
Chinese medical scientists discovered the presence of channels and collaterals in the human body as early as 2,000 years ago.They believed that a complex network covers the entire human body.Just in the same way as rivers irrigate farmlands,this net...
Traditional Chinese Pharmaceuticals
Traditional Chinese pharmaceuticals enjoy a venerated history,but the term itself was not coined until Western pharmaceuticals found their way into China. Modern Western pharmacology began to spread into China during the Ming-Qing inerregnum,and was...
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