Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-28
Herb Doctor
Tells Illness
By Voice
BIT We Owe Many Drugs
10 Ancient Chinese
BY EDWIN c. HILL

NOI VI OdNldllht Ndi'f VIC =
noses ailments by the voice and
preScrbes accordingly. lie says:
MANY sufferers make a low
moaning sound. This il the tone
of the Iii and signifies kidney
trouble. \ loud. cranky, quick
tempered voice indicates An all
ment OF the heart. \ crying.
choking voice signifies trouble
in the lungs"
Perhaps Wall Street has kid
ney trouble and Adolf Hitler
heart trouble, considering the
noises they make. Secretary
Ickes, from this diagnosis, might
have many ailments, all at once.
Radio croonerS surely have
lung trouble But the net news
IN this particular story, is that
the federal trade commission
says TO Fong Poy and his assoc
ciated herbalistS, you can't do
that
From the vast new chromium
plated palace Of falr-dealing in
constitution avenue, in Wash
ington. there goes an order 10
the little SidcStreet herb shop IN
Oakland. setting forth that
"Fong Poy has no medical or
scientific training and IS not
qualified 10 diagnose human all
mentS
Fong Poy is also forbidden 10
claim that the respondents
herbs will build up the body,
purify the blood. renew strength
and wash away diseases of The
bed =
4 MILE or two over the Po-
"A tomac from the Federal
Trade Commission building is
the governments experimental
farm. adjoining Arlington Gene
terry. W h ere they grow vast
quantities of herbal p a n $
brought from China.
They experiment with them.
find some of them useful. and
release them for commercial eN-
ploitation. and many of them
later find their way into our re-
spectacle western pharmaco-
poeta
MANY sufferers from asthma
and allied Affections may thank
the tribe of Fong poy and his
forcbearS of a few thousand
years hack
1t was in 1925 that the dean
-of-the medical school of the
University of Pennsylvania re-
ported TO an American medical
convention the beneficial results
obtained for many centuries IN
China from a plant OF the genus
Ephedra. Thus came ephedrine.
If YOU happen 10 have asthma,
hay fever or anything in that
line. YOU know all about il
AS a matter of fact. our phar-
macology would be terribly inn
poveriShed if il were stripped of
all the derivatives and com
pounds and Celebrations Of an
cient Chinese herbs and Simples.
TT APPEARS that we do occa-
1 Sionally gather figs of this
t4eS@Fhe proven efficacy of
these remedies has been eNCa-
waited from mountains OF hor-
rendouS ignorance, superstition,
demonology and fantastic non
sense.
We have no doubt that FonG
Pov is running according 10
ancient form in his voice dag
noSlS and the commission has
a good case against him But
when II comes 10 comparative
medicine. taken over a long
strength Of centuries, the west
ern world doesn't rate a holier-
than-thou attitude. as against
The East
Read that hook. Devils. Drugs
and Doctors Of several years
back and learn how we took the
Chinese herb lore and out
dreamed the Chinese in messing
il up with propitiatory magic.
SpOokS. inCantationS and the
like. with an abandon which
would have made the most bug
eyed Chinese deyil-monger green
with envy
This book makes MS think that
We are NOT orig ont of the
>quirTel-Cdge ourselves.
Back In the eighties and nine
ties and a feW wears afterWard
Fong Poy would have met stiff
competition from our patent
medicine mogulS Ono of them.
IN Pittsburgh telegraphed TO a
New York manufacturers
What is your price for 5000
gross white pills: 1 have a
name"
There is an unendinC battle
between the old world and the
nov. If they could meet each
other halfway and do some
Shrewd hor>e-tradng. there
might he mutual profit.
The New World might offer
the rational and the Old World
the empirical or experimental.
Each, IN such an @eNchange.
might have 10 letu6on much
IL thinks IT knows.
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