Know Your Remedies : Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bian, He, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Transmission of texts.
Pharmacy.
Pharmacopoeias.
Medicine, Chinese.
HISTORY / Asia / China.
Medecine chinoise.
Transmission de textes > Chine > Histoire.
Medecine chinoise > Histoire.
Pharmacopees > Chine > Histoire.
Drugs, Chinese Herbal
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Pharmacopoeias as Topic > history
History of Pharmacy
Transmission of texts > China > History.
Medicine, Chinese > History.
Pharmacopoeias > China > History.
Pharmacy > China > History.
China.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The last pharmacopeia
  • Converting tribute
  • The nature of drugs
  • Virtuosity and orthodoxy
  • The marketplace and the shop
  • Eating exotica.

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