The herald., 1896-08-30


| Kingdom Herb Remedy company, de-
sire to announce to the citizens of Los
Angeles and vicinity that have opened
| Chinese Herb and Tea Dispensary at
929 South Broadway. in Los Angeles,
| where I shall be pleased to meet all
| former patrons and any others who may
! desire to test the merits of the Chinese
| herbal treatment for all diseases. |
| shall continue, at the above address, to
| give advice and diagnosis by the pulse,
| free of charge, to all who may desire it,,
| and to sell the Chinese herbal remedies
! for home treatment or to prepare the
! teas for those who may wish to take
| them as prepared by me.
Three Books by DIR. Foo on Herbal
Medicines. Diseases and Anatomy
While announcing this change in my
| business location. wish to improve this
| opportunity to place before the Ameri-
! can public some of the fundamental
principles of the system of medicine
/ which I practice.
| In the Chinese medical books are de-
scribed all the remedies which benefit
! the human system in such way that
| everybody may understand. The ques-
| ton then arises. how do the remedies
benefit the system? This is matter that
has puzzled very many people of all
countries. Even the common doctors
in China, those who are not very well
| educated, cannot understand the reason
of this. l will explain why this is so.
| The excellent reason is given in books
| written four thousand years ago. The
grammar of these books is very hard
and the reasoning is so deep that the
common doctor cannot learn He stud
les modern and very easy books, but he
cannot comprehend philosophy. Many
hundred years ago few very we'll edu-
Gated doctors understood everything,
hnt thay ad th,air nrnfnIlnH
oning translated into easy language, and
they never had their many hundred
books condensed by searching out and
separating the essential parts and show
ing them to all the world.
English people who have lived a good
many years in. China and have tried to
translate the Chinese medical boks have
found them hard to learn and translate.
They have gone part way and stopped
when half done. and have found no suit
able to explain these books to them.
And because they have not found men
sufficiently well educated to explain
these books, they have not been able
to simplify them. This is because the
Chinese language is more difficult to
learn than any other in the whole world
and because the medical works which
We're written four thousand years ago
are more difficult to understand than
| any other books in the Chinese language.
| Now I, having been educated at tine
| Imperial Medical College at Pekin
| China, have undertaken to condense the
many medical works of China, to take
| from them the best teachings and to
| get the very deep reasoning. l intend
to condense the whole Chinese system
of medicine into three books. The first
of these will explain all about the herb
medicines. The second book will treat
of all dieases and forms of sickness and
their remedies. and the third will ex-
plain the Chinese system Of anatomy.
one chapter in each book will define its
objects and explain the matters of which
it will tell, and l shall first print this be-
ginning chapter of the book in the news
papers. / shall explain the books writ
ten four thousand years ago in clear
and easy language. The first lesson of
the book is entitled:
The Herbal Medicines. What Power
They Have and How They Act
Everything in the world is included in
five elements namely: water. mineral,
vegetation. fire and earth. In the vital
organs there are also five different ele-
ments, and everything in vegetation
corresponds to five kinds of elements.
The power which comes from the use
of these elements in vegetation is the
same as the power in the different vital
organs. This is a theory of very great
importance, and one which / am anX-
ious for the American people to under
stand.
/ shall explain the simpler lessons
from these facts first In things be-
longing to the water clement the color
is black the taste is salt, and the power
is of benefit to the lower organs of the
human body. The herbal medicines that
are of black color and salt taste
belong to the water element. and there
fore have an influence upon the kidneys
nd 10 bladder for those also
belong to the water element. In the
vegetation element the color is blue or
green and the taste is sour. So herbs
of a blue or green color and sour taste
are allied to the vegetation element.
| These have a power to contract the air
| in the blood, and their action assists
the liver and gall, because these organs
| belong to the vegetable element. The
color of things belonging to the fire ele-
ment is red, the taste is bitter, and the
| power from these rushes through the
| system. Therefore herb remedies of a
! red color and bitter taste are classed
| with the fire element and influence the
| heart, the heart-case, and the small in
| testineS, which belong to the fire ele-
| ment. The power from these herbs
| rushes through the upper part Of the
body. The color of the earth element
| is yellow its taste is sweet, and the
| power from it is very slow. Therefore
I
sweet taste belong to the earth ele-
| ment. These can cause the circulation
| to go slow and make the effect of the
| medicines remain in the middle of the
vital organs. Their effect is upon the
| spleen and the stomach, because the
| spleen and the stomach are of the earth
! element. In the mineral element the
! color is white, the taste is hot and the
| power expands. So herbal medicines of
a white color and hot taste belong to
| the mineral element. These cause the
| natural heat of the body to go down
| through the eXtremities and through the
| outside of the skin. They influence the
action of the lungs and the large intes-
| tines. because these organs belong to
| the mineral element
| Mineral produces water: water pro-
| duces vegetation; vegetation produces
fire; fire produces earth; earth produces
| mineral. These make up the five ele-
| ments. The earth medicine produces
the air in the blood. The mineral ele-
! ment is stronger than the
| vegetation and can control it;
vegetation controls the earth and
the earth controls the water; water
| controls the fire and the fire controls the
mineral; water can stop the fire and
dissolve the mineral. The earth reme-
| dies conquer poisOns.
This is the simplest explanation Of the
relation between the herbal remedies
and their effects upon the different vita
organs. But there are other and more
abstruse variations of this subject. some
i of which shall explain. When, for in
stance. In any herb. the color belong