ABSTRACT
The Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic is one of the oldest and most comprehensive extant works in China. Its 18 volumes encompass basic Traditional Chinese Medicine recorded theories of the viscera and bowels, meridians and yin and yang, information on hygiene, clinical symptoms, acupuncture and moxibustion, and prescriptions and drugs. The popular treatment known as Traditional Chinese Medicine is actually a modern modification of the +2000-year-old Chinese Medicine and was formed in the early to mid-twentieth century. America’s first book of herbal healing, Sauer’s Herbal Cures, was assembled by Pennsylvania apothecary and printer Christopher Sauer. Theodor Zwinger was a Swiss physician whose herbal was first published in 1696. Theodor Zwinger’s son, Friedrich, revised his father’s herbal in 1744. And this was the edition that was sold in America, from which Christopher Sauer II drew the material.
