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| The Nei Jing (the first Chinese medical book) used the name Huang Di to make the first interlocutor. The Nei Jing was the Chinese musical system, also taught how to invent a system of weights and measurements. In addition, Huang Di was the emperor who created the Chinese military tactics, how to fight, place an army, etc. |
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| Before Huang Di, there was the period of Shen Nong Shi, who showed the men of that period (5200 years ago) how to manufacture agricultural tools to plough the land and to plough the land according to the seasons. Shen Nong Shi studied a lot of Yao-Wu. He knew that each plant had its own virtue and its own taste and that it could treat a certain number of diseases. We know that all animals possess some self-healing faculties. When animals develop a disease, the body reacts automatically to fight that disease. If the factors of self-healing are not able to heal, the animal needs to absorb external substances to heal itself. To do so, the animal follows certain instincts we can observe. For example, the cat that we have at home is a carnivorous animal. Animals are distinguished as those which eat meat and those which eat vegetation. |
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| Horses, cows, and deer eat only vegetation. Animals that eat vegetation (herbivores) possess the same physical |
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| structure as the ones which eat meat (carnivores). It is only a question of habit (over millenniums). Both meat and vegetation nourish the body. |
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| The cat is an animal which has the habit of eating meat,fish, and small animals such as mice. When the cat catches a disease, it knows from instinct to look for plants which grow outside. It knows how to choose the plants that work to treat its illness. If the cat does not become sick, it does not look for plants to eat. If the body develops an illness, the plants can help the body to fight the illness. It is a natural thing. |
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| Shen Nong Shi found this behaviour natural. By observation he could notice that the absorption of certain plants with their own taste could ameliorate certain illnesses. For example, if one is suffering from tropical heat, fever and perspiration result. A lot of body liquids are spent. If we find some juicy, refreshing, and sweet-tasting fruits, we surely desire to eat them. However, if we have an illness that is making us weak or cold, we then have a cold mouth and an abundant saliva. If we are given juicy fruit such as the watermelon, we feel right away that the watermelon gives a cold taste, even no taste, and we do not desire to eat it. It is an instinctive refusal. |
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