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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2020]
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvr0qrfn |
Sommario:
- The last pharmacopeia
- Converting tribute
- The nature of drugs
- Virtuosity and orthodoxy
- The marketplace and the shop
- Eating exotica.