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2006年8月15日 · Following the works of some of the most influential Chinese emperors and physicians, other medical contributions across China, Japan, and Korea were made resulting in what is now considered traditional Chinese medicine. These books feature discoveries in acupuncture, surgery, herbal remedies, and early thoughts on communicable diseases.
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Huang Ti (黃帝/黄帝), drawing published in Zhongguo li dai ming yi tu zhuan (Biographies and portraits of Chinese famous doctors in past dynasties), 1987. To this legendary emperor is attributed the earliest known Chinese medical writing, Huang-ti Nei ching (The Canon of Internal Medicine). This work consists of two treatises, one a ...
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锁阳固精丸 (Chinese medicine to improve men's health and fertility), n.d. 安神赞育丸 (Chinese medicine to improve women's health and pregnancy), n.d. Pharmaceutical advertisement of aspirin-tablets, ca. 1935
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Considered to be the father of Chinese agriculture, this legendary emperor taught his people how to cultivate grains as food, to avoid killing animals. He is said to have tasted hundreds of herbs to test their medicinal value and is assumed to be the author of Shen-nung pen ts'ao ching (Divine Husbandman's Materia Medica), the earliest extant ...
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Chinese medicine seems to have reached its peak during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) when Li Shih-chen 李時珍 wrote his Pen ts'ao kang mu (The Great Herbal). This great pharmacopoeia, which summarizes what was known of herbal medicine up to the late 16th century, describes in detail more than 1800 plants, animal substances, minerals, and ...
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This book, 金匱要畧國字解 (Commentary on Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet), was written by a Japanese author and published in Edo, now Tokyo, during the Edo period when Chinese traditions and knowledge were heavily spread throughout Japan due to limited foreign trade to the country.
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Chung Chung-ching (神農), fl. 168-196 AD, drawing published in Zhongguo li dai ming yi tu zhuan (Biographies and portraits of Chinese famous doctors in past dynasties), 1987 Regarded as one of the great physicians of the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), the most glorious period in Chinese medical history, Chang Chung-ching (神農) wrote ...
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藿香正气片 (Chinese medicine for clearing the body in summertime), n.d. 藿香正气片 (Chinese medicine for clearing the body in summertime), Tianjin Medicine Factory, n.d. To market Chinese medicines to a more modernized audience, ads, such as this one, used ideal masculine images to make these traditional therapeutics more appealing.
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小儿百寿片 (Chinese nutritional supplement for children), n.d. 小儿百寿片 (Chinese nutritional supplement for children), Tianjin Medicine Factory, n.d. This ad features Tiananmen, or the Gate of Heavenly Peace, the monumental gate in the center of Beijing, China built during the Ming dynasty in 1420.