The oldest Chinese book extant, the Shih-Ching or Shijing (following the Pinyin system), the"
Book of Songs," was written in northern China sometime between the ninth and sixth century …

Cannabis, called ta ma (" great hemp"), was one of the staple crops of ancient China, valued
not only for food, fiber, oil, and paper but also as a medicine. According to legend, the …

In Thailand, hemp is known as gan-chaa. It is numbered among the traditional medicines,
but is now illegal.(from Ponglux et al.) oday, hemp is found throughout Southeast Asia, on …

T Tibetan medicine has its roots in the original shamanic religion of Tibet, Bön, and in early
Tantric teachings (Baker and Shrestha 1997). Buddhism was introduced into Tibet around …

W ith the beginning of the early modern period, radical changes were taking place in
Europe. The invention of the printing press (ca. 1440) dramatically changed the sociology of …

During the nineteenth century the hempseed lost its popularity as a medicine in European
and American cultures as it once again became favored as an oil-producer. Attention to the …

Among the cuneiform texts left by the Assyrians are a series of medicinal herbals.(excerpt
from the herbal text from the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, Nineveh; from …

Probably one of the oldest plants known to man, Cannabis was cultivated for fiber, food, and
medicine thousands of years before it became the" superstar" of the drug culture (Schultes …

The smoking of different blends of herbs is one of the essential medicinal-ritual practices of
the North American Indians. In this medicine lodge, a patient is being treated by a shaman …

迪 The use of enemas was popular in folk medicine, for both medicinal purposes and also
for erotic ends. During the nineteenth century, smoke enemas were all the rage. Enema …