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Actual origins of Chinese Medicine seem shrouded in the mists of the past. Recent scholarly investigation refers us back as far as the Bronze Age, to the Shang Dynasty ( -1523 to -1027)

….."the Shang period begins with an intact and clearly earlier mythology. These myths describe the Chinese founders of civilization. Three of these five rulers of ancient China were revered as founders of Chinese medicine, as they were through the following Zhou dynasty, and they are as myths to the present day: Fu Xi, Shen Nong, and Huang Di…………….

….Huang Di is said to have written with his minister Qi Bo, the Nei Jing, or 'Canon of Internal Medicine'. He is also said to have taught humankind to manufacture with wood, ceramics and metal, and to have ordered the building of the first boats and wheeled vehicles……."

(Taken from 'Understanding Acupuncture' by Stephen J Birch and Robert L Felt, Churchill Livingstone 1999.)

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