So, what are the magic ingredients?
Funny you should ask. I think that one ingredient is “Smoking Frog”. ;)
“...So, what are the magic ingredients?...”
Any zoos or sanctuaries missing one or more of their male tigers in the last few weeks (if you get my drift)?
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Red Guard youth destroyed everything that had to do with ancient Chinese culture - including writings dealing with chinese medicine and the priests and practitioners who kept the knowledge. It’s only been in the last few decades that Chinese were able to travel to Japan to ‘rediscover’ Chinese medicine and make it their own. According to wiki listing on Kampo, “The 14th edition of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP, Nihon yakkyokuhÅ) lists 165 herbal ingredients...” Apparently Kampo is a strictly regulated industry in Japan, with pharmaceutical-level testing of herbs for contaminants and control over exact dosing, something not likely found in Chinese-sourced ingredients.
the CCP has directed that chinese medicine be ‘reclaimed’ and pimped to the rest of the world, in part to discredit western ways, in part to re-establish their ‘ancient society’ that they erased via genocide 50 years ago, and in part to one-up Japan, which either invented or improved upon ancient ‘chinese’ herbal concoctions and methods such as acupuncture, depending on who’s relating the history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampo_list