[Sca-cooks] More on potatoes and chilies

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Meantime, I'm very much enjoying Paul's book. The quote I gave you was from
> an essay he wrote on Chinese history- next essay I'll be proofing is in the
> history of Chinese medicine.
> 
> One of the more interesting things I'm discovering is that the current
> Chinese medicinal treatmeant advertised by the airheads as being thousands
> of years old are often quite (relatively) modern, taking strong influences
> from European and Arabic medical practices. The Chinese have been literate
> for quite a while, and you can actually trace quite a few "ancient Chinese
> techniques" to specific western practices.
> 

Is this the new book? I'll be curious to see it, as the question of 
interaction between Western and Eastern medicine is a very hot topic; it's 
well known that Indian medical knowledge travelled West through the 
Mughals but not as easily known what knowledge travelled back East.

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"Hero not the handsome actor who plays a hero's role. Hero not the glamour 
girl who'd love to sell her soul." - Rush, Nobody's Hero