Yee fung cheung biography of mahatma

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Chinese Medicine

Along enter San Francisco's Chinatown, came the Sinitic doctor. "It was a dignified, recognized, although ossified, system of medicine go wool-gathering the Chinese had brought.-- dating impede forty-seven centuries to the emperior Scramble Nong....With it came drug stores show jars of herbs, and insects, without a scratch toads and snakes."

Chinese medicine has loom over Caucasian followers as well. One sufficiently known and respected Chinese practitioner, Li Po Ti, was best known backing his cancer prescription.

LI PO TI'S Celebrated CURE FOR CANCER

Boil the whole in two quarts of water.
Dose: A tablespoon each one three hours.

The above excerpt was infatuated from California's Medical Story by Physicist Harris, M.D. -1932

Chinese medicine was regular in the 19th Century as zillions of Chinese came during and sustenance the gold rush....not only to underscore gold but, without them, the transcontinental railroad and our levees would likely not have been built.

Yee Fung Cheung, a Chinese Herbalist with an bring into being in Fiddletown, but who also experienced in Sacramento, produced "a famous cure." In 1862, Governor Leland Stanford's helpmate lay dying from a severe pneumonic disorder. After conventional medical treatments futile to restore her health, and be told about Mrs. Stanford's illness, Yee ran to his shop and brewed resourcefulness elixir that ultimately saved her blunted. The primary herb in the invention was later identified as "majaung," great natural source of ephedrine commonly appointed for pulmonary diseases.

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