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intensive studies and carrying on numerous experiments in order to
determine scientifically the exact effects of certain Chinese Herbs upon
the human system.
On March 19, 1928, some of the officials of the University of California
ordered through the Fong Wan Company, ten pounds of Ma
Huang to be sent to Washington, D. C., so that the curative powers of
this plant might be investigated there. The manner in which Ma
Huang is used by the Chinese in Herbal Compounds is quite different
from the ways that the Americans use it in combination with other
things. The Chinese method is not harmful. The authorities of the University
of California have also bought, mainly from the Fong Wan
Company, more than three hundred specimens of other herbs for use
in their laboratory research.
CHAULMOOGRA OIL, DIGITALIS, EPHEDRIN, MERCURY,
SALVARSAN AND NUMEROUS OTHER DRUGS
A branch from the Cltaulmoogra tree,
showing scods from which wl
Is extracted.
. . . have been used in China for
thousands of years. However, dur-
ing the past few centuries, the use
of Mercury and Salvarsan has been
gradually abandoned,
as the Chi-
nese have discovered that these
drugs contain too much poison for
the human system to cope with.
The Chinese have therefore resorted
more and more to herbs, which,
while having great healing power,
leave none of the bad after effects
common to drugs. Digitalis, an ex-
tract of Foxglove Root, is beneficial
to the heart. Ephedrin is an extract
from the Chinese herb "Ma
Huang."
Chaulmoogra Oil for leprosy, so
recently acclaimed by the Western
World, was known to the Chinese
long before any foreigner ever visited China. The Chinese Encyclo-
pedia of Herbal Science, which was published by the Chinese Govern-
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