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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Almost Unbelievable To Whom It May Concern

Oakland, Calif.

For two months I suffered pain under my ribs on both sides. Then I was taken down with la grippe. With the pains and the la grippe combined, I was in such unbearable agony that I could neither eat anything nor even lie down. As the physician whom I had did me no good, I quit him. Then I took herb tea from the FONG WAN HERB CO. for only three days, at the end of which time all the pains had gone out of my body. No one knows how happy I am.

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