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Herbal History of China
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Herbal History of China
Emperor Sheng Nung began his reign in 2,800 BC and became
known to his people as the "father of agriculture",
and later "the patron saint of herbology".
He produced the first records of the actions of plants,
often experimenting upon himself and, it is reputed, surviving
numerous poisonings.
Sheng Nung's work became the basis for one of the earliest
herbals in existence: The Divine Husbandman's Classic
of The Matena Medica, or Sheng Nung Ben Cao Chien.
Often it is shortened to Sheng Nung's Herbal. Sheng Nung
remains noted both for his astonishing accuracy in the
details of 250 plants and 150 ailments and the development
of the instrumental principal ofYin and Yang.
A few centuries later Huang Ti, infamously known as The
Yellow Emperor, worked from Sheng Nung's herbal and further
produced methods of diagnoses, extensive prescriptive
herbs, and recorded the founding principals of Chinese
Herbal Medicine.
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, Huang
Ii Nei Ching, or Nei Ching. for short. The Nei Ching was
believed to have been written during Huang Ti's reign,
around 2,500 BC, though the earliest existing record of
the herbal dates to 300 BC.
This important text includes a thorough herbal pharmacopoeia,
and extols the properties of the life-force energy Qi,
the five phases of evolutionary change, and documented
the principals of Yin and Yang, and the practice of acupuncture.
Interestingly, this text was written in the form of a
discussion between the Yellow Emperor and his minister,
rather than as an instructional text.
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