East Asian Traditional Medicines Including Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, and Tibetan Medicine

Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Traditional medicine, also known as indigenous or folk medicine is comprised of unscientific knowledge systems that developed over generations within various societies before the era of modern medicine. It includes formalized aspects of folk medicine, i.e. longstanding remedies passed on and practiced by lay people. In some Asian and African countries, up to 80% of the population relies on traditional medicine for their primary health care needs. This book studies prominent East Asian traditional medicines including fire cupping, Chinese food therapy, Kampo herb list, and medicinal mushrooms. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.