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The Yellow Emperor's Classic, which is over 2,000 years old and possibly the most important fundamental text in Chinese Medicine, advocates avoiding grains in m
by whiddershins 11y ago
The Yellow Emperor's Classic, which is over 2,000 years old and possibly the most important fundamental text in Chinese Medicine, advocates avoiding grains in many situations ... but there is much debate on exactly what was meant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangdi_Neijing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangdi_Neijing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigu_(avoiding_grains) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigu_(avoiding_grains)
- douche 11y agoInteresting, what kind of debate? Possibly something to keep in mind, but when ancient Chinese authors are talking about grain, they are probably talking about wheat, barley, millet or sorghum, rather than rice. The nucleus of Chinese civilization was in the Yellow river region, in northern China, where rice was not a native plant - as opposed to the Yangtze and Cantonese regions of China, which were colonized later.