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...ling it to private traders who transported it to China and passed it on to Chinese smugglers. By 1787, the Company was sending 4,000 chests of opium (each 77 ...r warehouses in the free-trade region of Canton (Guangzhou) and sold it to Chinese smugglers.

...the largest and most comprehensive survey of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by American adults to date--an estimated 8.2 million U.S. adults ...of the system of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In the TCM system of medicine, the body is seen as a delicate balance of two opposing and inseparable for

...le circumcision]] as a form of mutilation. The Danish Society for General Medicine has declared non-medical male circumcision an ethically unacceptable mutila

'''Gua sha''' (Chinese: 刮痧) or '''kerokan''', is part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which a tool is used to scrape people's skin in order to produce l

'''Fire cupping''' or simply '''cupping''' is a form of traditional medicine found in many cultures worldwide. It involves placing cups containing reduc ...disease and structural problems. This method in multiple forms spread into medicine in Asian and European civilizations.

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...ion of, 'shunkyu-higi-ga' (春宮秘戯画), the Onyomi (Japanese pronunciation) for Chinese sets of twelve scrolls depicting the twelve sexual acts that the crown prin

Some teachers and practitioners of Traditional Chinese medicine, Taoist meditative and martial arts say that masturbation can cause a lower

...: अवलोकितेश्वर) and has been adopted by other Eastern religions, including Chinese folk religion. She was first given the appellation "Goddess of Mercy" or "M ..., the Chujō-hime tale was also used to popularize the gynecological patent medicine known as Chūjōtō, which was produced by the pharmaceutical drug company,

'''Lingchi''' ([lǐŋʈʂʰɻ̩̌]; Chinese: 凌遲), translated variously as '''the slow process''', '''the lingering ...e body in multiple slices in a process that was not specified in detail in Chinese law and, therefore, most likely varied. The punishment worked on three leve

...st three months. Based on his work in Calcutta he graduated as a Doctor of Medicine at the University. Witt married Elizabeth Hedley in Bedford in 1832. He pra ...lection covered the major civilizations of Greece, Rome, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese and native American. Besides votive objects, bronzes and

...Deep Tissue is a blend of Eastern barefoot techniques with Western manual medicine. Clients are typically loosely clothed and lain on floor mat in supine, pro ===Chinese Tui Na massage ===

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...because God has said, 'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.'" Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou once wrote in the 3rd century BCE (hypothetically) ...their respective herbalism known as Ayurveda and TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) – were consonant with and fully integrated into those mystical [[teachin

...dered offensive. Some of these were due to naming taboo, such as writing a Chinese character that is part of the emperor's personal name. In the most serious ...ty, where the Holy Office had its own “palace”, which is now the Museum of Medicine of UNAM on Republica de Brasil street. The official period of the Inquisiti

...e attached importance to astronomical events, and some—such as the Hindus, Chinese, and the Maya—developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial even ...circles, often in close relation with astronomy, alchemy, meteorology, and medicine. It was present in political circles and is mentioned in various works of l

The birth of Charles George "Chinese" Gordon, military hero of Imperial Britain and martyr at Khartoum. He was f ...gical terms "deviation", "aberation", and "perversion" are introduced into medicine. [wd]

...nd until the 1930s, masturbation was widely regarded as harmful in Western medicine. Numerous mentions can be found in medical journals of the time of the use In 1998, racial riots against the ethnic Chinese in West Java prompted the production and sale of "anti-rape corsets". These

...ll. I respected his intelligence, and his dedication to a future career in medicine. He loved me, or so he said, and even asked me to marry him." They were mar .... She left her hand and footprints in front of the [[Sid Grauman|Grauman's Chinese Theatre]] on August 1, 1944.

...sco and Los Angeles". He taught Chinese cooking classes at a San Francisco Chinese restaurant in the 1970s. The theatre and demonstration kitchen under the li === Medicine ===