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Poison or cure? Traditional Chinese medicine shows that context can make all the difference

  • Written by Yan Liu, Assistant Professor of History, University at Buffalo
imagePoisons have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over two millennia.4X-image/E+ via Getty Images

Poisons today typically evoke notions of harm and danger – the opposite of medicines for healing. Yet traditional Chinese medicine, which has been in practice for over two millennia, used a large number of poisons to treat a variety of...

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