[Sca-cooks] More on potatoes and chilies

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> 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.
>
> -- 
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa,

Well, I've got it on CD, thanks to Adamantius finding me a program that
makes it possible for me to read Paul's word processing program- the last
one was printed out and mailed to me. My deadline is June 28, so it ought to
be printed a couple months after that. I'm going to fwd your comments over
to Paul- he might give me permission to let you read the essay on Chinese
medical history that I'm proofing right now. However, since it hasn't been
published yet, I'm not letting it out of my hands without his permission-
even the brief quote that started this thread was cc'd to him, so he knew
exactly where his work was being seen.

Paul, Jadwiga is a librarian, with a very serious interest in historical
herbal usages- runs our local (East Kingdom) herbal guild.


Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise" <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] More on potatoes and chilies


> > 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.