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The earliest known use of the word swastika is in Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī, which uses it to explain one of the Sanskrit grammar rules, in the context of a type of identifying mark on a cow's ear. [31] Most scholarship suggests that Pāṇini lived in or before the 4th century BCE, [38] [39] possibly in 6th or 5th century BCE. [40] [41]
It is considered to be the earliest Chinese pharmacopoeia, and includes 365 medicines derived from minerals, plants, and animals. Shennong is credited with identifying hundreds of medical (and poisonous) herbs by personally testing their properties, which was crucial to the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Legend holds that Shennong ...
Modern Chinese medicinal zǐhéchē 紫河车 "dried human placenta" Li Shizhen's (1597) Bencao gangmu, the classic materia medica of traditional Chinese medicine , included 35 human drugs, including organs, bodily fluids, and excreta. Crude drugs derived from the human body were commonplace in the early history of medicine.
Though well known in modern Chinese medicine and considered one of the finest Chinese physicians in history, very little is known about his life. [2] According to later sources, he was born in Nanyang, held an official position in Changsha and lived from approximately 150 to 219 AD. [2]
Neo-Nazis also employ various number symbols: 18, code for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1, H = 8. [12] 88, code for "Heil Hitler", a phrase used in the Nazi salute. [13] Also used as a reference to the "88 Precepts", a manifesto written by white supremacist David Lane.
The Chinese word bigu compounds bi 辟 "ruler; monarch; avoid; ward off; keep away" and gu 穀 or 谷 "cereal; grain; millet".The bi 辟 meaning in bigu is a variant Chinese character for bi 避 "avoid; shun; evade; keep away" (e.g., bixie 辟邪 or 避邪 "ward off evil spirits; talisman; amulet").
Shivkumar was aghast to learn it was the work of an ardent Nazi whose Vienna institute had dissected the bodies of prisoners, many executed for political reasons after Austria was annexed to Nazi ...
Chinese patent medicine (中成藥; 中成药; zhōngchéng yào) is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. They are standardized herbal formulas. From ancient times, pills were formed by combining several herbs and other ingredients, which were dried and ground into a powder. They were then mixed with a binder and formed into pills by hand.