The Ming Dynasty Pharmacist Li Shizhen compiled a ‘Compendium of Native Chinese Medicinal Plants’, containing up to 1892 different kinds of medicinal plants, used to generate 11000 prescriptions. Different drugs are used to treat different conditions, and today there are currently more than 40 cigarette factories in China producing more than 50 kinds of TCM-derived cigarettes, containing different natural TCM ingredients.
Tag: Western imperialism
Taking Rights Away to ‘Protect’ Citizens is Nothing but Fascism!
Instead of confronting the ‘actual’ or ‘real’ reasons why terrorism happens, our civil liberties are removed as a means to make it harder for any potential terrorist to commit a violent act. It is obvious that this policy does not work, as terrorists always strike where least expected.
Xmas with Chinese Characteristics (中国特色的圣诞节总)
Xmas (like Christianity) is not popular in China, despite Western propaganda to the contrary.
Moved by the Holy Spirit – the Christianisation of Chinese Martial Arts
Chinese people must eradicate ALL vestiges of Western imperialism and Christianity from their martial arts practises and return to the higher wisdom that defines Chinese martial history.
Chinese Syncretism & Hakka Taiping Uprising (Email)
In the 19th century, the Hakka people rose-up against the Qing Dynasty (Taiping Uprising), combining Missionary Christianity, with Chinese Cosmology – with a ‘new’ Chinese ‘Son of God’.
Zulu Modernity
The Zulus represented an ‘African’ form of modernity that clashed with its European counter-part.