Chinese Medicine
Chinese Food Therapy
Chinese food therapy is very old, it dates back to 2000 BC. and has been documented since 500 BC. The Niejing was written around 300 BC and documents Chinese food therapy. This document classifies food into four food groups. The groups are and by the five tastes and also be their natures and characteristics of the foods.
Chinese Medicine and the Use of Snake Oil
Talk about snake oil, and you will most likely think about traveling conmen who used to visit the various villages and townships as they were eked out of the dusty sands and green prairies by settlers. With promises of longevity, virility, fertility, and lasting beauty, these dubious purveyors of remedies would sell commonly useless concoctions with fantastic claims. Frequently borrowing heavily from the lore and scientific achievements of far away countries that most early Americans only knew to exist from books, the traveling conmen would claim to either be trained in the secrets of these medical breakthroughs by dying Chinese mystics, lone Native American raiders, or the famed writings of Arabic princes and Egyptian pharaohs made available to the learned in far away England.