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Poison or cure? Traditional Chinese medicine shows that context can make all the difference

  • Written by Yan Liu, Assistant Professor of History, University at Buffalo
Poison or cure? Traditional Chinese medicine shows that context can make all the differencePoisons have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over two millennia.4X-image/E+ via Getty Images

Poisons today typically evoke notions of harm and danger – the opposite of medicines for healing. Yet traditional Chinese medicine, which has been in practice for over two millennia, used a large number of poisons to treat a variety of...

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