FONG WAN - Library

with herbs has been pronounced a fraudulent scheme by the author-
ities, when at the trial their own physician witnesses were forced to
a'dmit many cures were made by the Fong Wan herbs.
Both chemists and professors of pharmacology from two leading
universities have testified that certain herbs possess traces of alkaloids,
tannin, starch, saponin, emodin and pectin. They have also admitted
that while they possess no knowledge of the properties of herbs, yet
they have known of cases in which ephedrin, which is an extract from
the Chinese herb "ma huang," has relieved asthma, and of cases in
which digitalis, which is an extract from foxglove root, has been bene-
ficial to the heart.
The effects of the odor, the taste, the strength, the color and the
action of the herbs on the head and on the extremities of the body are
absolutely unknown to them. Neither do they know that numerous
herbs, though light in weight, possess great strength and when boiled
in water, constitute a marvelous remedy for the relief of congestion in
the cavities of the head.
In 1925 an Anti-Herb Bill was introduced into the California State
Assembly. People of all classes attacked Fong Wan in all sorts of
ways, but he merely laughed at them, for he knew that those who had
arrayed themselves against him had done so either by reason of jeal-
ousy of his success or because they were as ignorant with regard to
the real value of herbs as he had been when he was a foolish young
boy addicted to queue-pulling. He therefore sympathized with their
ignorance and did not blame them for causing him so many hardships,
especially as he was living in a foreign land where the Science of
Herbal Remedies was both so new and so vaguely understood.
Fong Wan is happy to say that thousands of people have gained
speedy relief by drinking his herbs and that only about 15% to 20% of
the cases have required more than a brief period of treatment.
DEAFNESS
DEPUTY SHERIFF'S STATEMENT
Richmond, California, May 28, 1927.
I suffered from Nervous Headache and Deafness. My Health was
so poor that I was unable to do anything. I had tried many doctors
and had also been treated at the University Clinic. The doctors there
inserted an instrument into my nose for the purpose of restoring my
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