Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China

by Yan Liu

Book Overview

Winner of the 2023 William H. Welch Medal, sponsored by the American Association for the History of Medicine

A revealing study of risky cures in classical Chinese pharmacy

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 deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Healing with Poisons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295748990
• ISBN13: 9780295748993
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher