Alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China

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C18 Chinese woodcut: Lurking-cold pharyngitis

Ming herbal (painting): Water chestnut

C19 Chinese paintings of famous physicians: Zhang Zhongjing

C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Quchi

Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Sesame of Jinzhou

C18 Chinese woodcut: White laryngitis

Chinese C18: Paediatric pox -- 'Nose Surrounding' pox

C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Face massage

Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases

Chinese Qigong practice, from early C20 illustrated MS

Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Mouth-Locking' pox

C18 Chinese woodcut: Pale red laryngitis

Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Weak Pulse (ruomai)

Listen to your body : the wisdom of the Dao / Bisong Guo and Andrew Powell.

Yangsheng graphic: Ming Chinese woodcut

Nourishment of life : the culture of health in traditional Chinese society / by Linda Chih-ling Koo.

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Medicine, Chinese Traditional

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Images referencing Medicine, Chinese Traditional

Works from the collections

Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases

Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Weak Pulse (ruomai)

Listen to your body : the wisdom of the Dao / Bisong Guo and Andrew Powell.

Yangsheng graphic: Ming Chinese woodcut

Nourishment of life : the culture of health in traditional Chinese society / by Linda Chih-ling Koo.

Medicine, Chinese Traditional

Images from the collections

Images referencing Medicine, Chinese Traditional

Works from the collections

Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases

Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Weak Pulse (ruomai)

Listen to your body : the wisdom of the Dao / Bisong Guo and Andrew Powell.

Yangsheng graphic: Ming Chinese woodcut

Nourishment of life : the culture of health in traditional Chinese society / by Linda Chih-ling Koo.

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