{"id":18333,"date":"2020-02-22T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/about-chinese-apothecary\/"},"modified":"2020-02-22T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:22:12","slug":"about-chinese-apothecary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/about-chinese-apothecary\/","title":{"rendered":"About Chinese Apothecary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p>  \tLegend says that Shennong in the ancient China tasted a hundred plants in order to discover herbal medicines to cure people of their <strong>ailments<\/strong>(\u5fae\u6059w\u0113iy&agrave;ng). This indicates that China boasts a long history in treating the patients with <strong>herbal medicine<\/strong>(\u8349\u836fc\u01ceoy&agrave;o).<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe Compendium of Materia Medica, a book written by medical scientist Li Shizhen in the 16th century, listed a total of 1,892 types of the Chinese medicines.<\/p>\n<p>  \tChinese medicinal materials include plants and minerals, animals and insects. Since plants made up the largest category, Chinese medicine in ancient times was referred to as &quot;herbal medicine.&quot; For this reason, some Chinese apothecaries used to hang a bundle of hay under the eaves as their sign, symbolizing herbal medicine, but most common was a plaster model sign(as in the left picture). Others used three strings of pill forms with a sewn fish-shaped pendant. Still others, in front of the shop, put up a word plate as high as the door, popularly known as the &quot;sky-scraping sign.&quot;<br \/>  \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3974588196\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legend says that Shennong in the ancient China tasted a hundred plants in order to discover herbal medicines to cure people of their ailments(\u5fae\u6059w\u0113iy&agrave;ng). This indicates that China boasts a long history in treating the patients with herbal medicine(\u8349\u836fc\u01ceoy&agrave;o).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-customs"],"views":231,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}