Know your remedies : pharmacy and culture in early modern China /

"Traditional Chinese medicine has been practiced in various forms for more than a thousand years. Practitioners may heal patients with herbal remedies, acupuncture, massage, exercise, and modified diets. Even today, herbal medicines are of particular importance; Chinese pharmacies containing a...

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Autor principal: Bian, He, 1984- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Princeton : Princeton University Press [2020]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvr0qrfn
Taula de continguts:
  • The last pharmacopeia
  • Converting tribute
  • The nature of drugs
  • Virtuosity and orthodoxy
  • The marketplace and the shop
  • Eating exotica.