Herb Lore

Chinese herbalism in 1920s Oakland: Fong Wan's own book of herbs, cases and cookery, published from his Tenth Street office at a time when practising it got him prosecuted — and acquitted.

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A Common Source

The foregoing are statements of genuine facts. The explanation may be found in the fact that thousands of years ago the Chinese arrived at the conclusion that Insanity is caused by inflammation of the -(27)- Heart, which condition affects the nerves leading to the brain; and that therefore insanity and Heart trouble both come from the same source. Even though these Chinese theories of disease are more than 5,000 years old, yet, when one compares the relatively few cases of insanity and heart trouble in China with the astoundingly large number in the United States, who can prove that these old theories are not correct?

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