"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's formative era of pharmacy (200-800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life....

A unique collection of 36 chapters on the history of Chinese medical illustrations, this volume will take the reader on a remarkable journey from the imaging of a classical medicine to instructional manuals for bone-setting, to advertising and comic books of the Yellow Emperor. In putting images, their power and their travels at the centre of the analysis, this volume reveals many new and exciting dimensions to the history of medicine and embodiment,...

"This book explains how Chinese medicine diagnoses, treats, and prevents breast diseases. It covers a variety of self-care and home remedies, including self-massage, magnet therapy, moxibustion, aromatherapy, patient medicines plasters and liniments, and herbal teas. It includes information on Chinese dietary therapy, exercise, and deep relaxation."--Publisher.