| How old Chinese Medicine is and how it can about is a mystery.
The oldest book was supposedly written by the Yellow Emperor who lived
around 2,900 BCE. Modern research states that the ‘Nei
Jing’ was written over several centuries and took it present form between
the 4th and 2nd century BCE. It is the oldest book of Chinese Medicine
and defines the structure that most Oriental Healing arts use.
Additionally, archeology in China has found stone, flint and bone objects that resemble modern acupuncture needles that date from at least 4,000 BCE. Chinese herbal medicine was codified in the first century CE. 100 years later, disease was tackled in a systematic fashion in the ‘Shan Han Lun’ with 85% of the original herbal formulas still used today. |
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