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Fengyou Essence is mainly used after mosquito bites to preventing further itching, for easing headaches or dizziness due to a cold, and for carsickness, pain relief, cooling, and reducing rheumatic pains. It can either be used externally on the skin or taken orally, but people with deep second degree burns or more severe burns are prohibited ...
Tung oil is a common traditional wood finish, used typically for two main properties: first, it is a naturally derived substance. Second, after it cures (5 to 30 days, depending on weather/temperature), the result is a very hard and easily repaired finish, so it is used on boat decks and now on floors.
In 1949, the Yumen Oil Field was the only domestic oil field able to support industrial production and it fell far short of China's oil needs. [3]: 13 After the Nationalists' defeat in the Chinese Civil War, the oil field was transferred by the Republic of China's National Resources Commission (NRC) to the newly founded People's Republic of China.
Most Americans consider the new year to start on January 1, but many Asians and Asian-Americans don’t. Instead, they follow Lunar New Year, also referred to as Chinese New Year in the U.S ...
Snake oil is the most widely known Chinese medicine in the west, due to extensive marketing in the west in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and wild claims of its efficacy to treat many maladies. [31] [32] Snake oil is a traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain by rubbing it on joints as a liniment. [31]
The Chinese phrase "seven necessities" literally means "開 open 門 door 七 seven 件事 items" when translated, which is an old Chinese saying. They include firewood (柴 chái), rice (米 mĭ), oil (油 yóu), salt (鹽 yán), sauce (醬 jiàng), vinegar (醋 cù), tea (茶 chá).
The three companies are among a list of 72 firms the environmental non-profit organisation (NGO) said used body parts of threatened leopards and pangolins as ingredients in at least 88 traditional ...
China was a global scientific and technological leader up until the early years of the Ming dynasty.Ancient and medieval Chinese discoveries and Chinese innovations such as papermaking, printing, the compass, and gunpowder (the Four Great Inventions) contributed to the economic development of ancient and medieval East Asia, the Middle East and Europe.