10/04/2023
Chinese herbal medicine 🌿🍐🧄🌾🌹🌼🍠🍵
"In the 3rd century, the great doctor Zhang Zhongjing wrote the seminal text On Cold Damage (Shanghan Lun). It presented over one hundred prescriptions for use in the treatment of feverish diseases, their variations and their aftermath. In this book, some of the core ideas of Chinese herbal medicine were laid down, especially the principle that herbs are rarely given on their own, but mixed into prescriptions according to established principles. It is the way that substances work synergistically - influencing, potentising and moderating each other - that is one of the marvels of this tradition. So effective were the prescriptions that he devised, that many of them are in common use in clinics and hospitals throughout the world today." Peter Deadman (2016) Live Long, Live Well.