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Historic Background of TCM

· Fu Xi (4000 B.C.) made nine kinds of needles, an early reference to acupuncture

· Shen Nong (3000 B.C.) "Tasted a hundred herbs and came across seventy poisonous herbs each day" ⁽¹⁾

. Warring States period (475-221 B.C.) a monumental work of medicine, the Classic of Internal Medicine, appeared in China

"The heart is the center of blood circulation and of the system of blood vessels of the human body" ⁽²⁾ and that the blood circulating in vessel "is similar to flow of water, traveling around without end" ⁽³⁾

1. Liu An (Han Dynasty, 206 B.C.-220 A.D.): Master of Huainan

2. "Treatise on the feebleness of limbs" in Plain Questions.

3. "Treatise on the length of vessels" in Miraculous Pivot.

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