03325cam a2200445 4500 2794929015 TxAuBib 20260625120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780295749013 0295749016 B09DRGVHWJ Amazon d5f6a75f-c88b-4c91-8c74-387e127f708b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10176100 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Liu, Yan. Healing with Poisons [Bridges eBook] : Potent Medicines in Medieval China. University of Washington Press, 2021. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. history of medicine. Medical History. Asian Studies. Technology. Medicine. alchemy. poison. Empire. daoism. China. drug. tang. HTML:<p><b>Winner of the 2023 William H. Welch Medal, sponsored by the American Association for the History of Medicine<br /> A revealing study of risky cures in classical Chinese pharmacy<br /></b>At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. <i>Healing with Poisons</i> explores the ways physicians, religious devotees, court officials, and laypeople used powerful substances to both treat intractable illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of <i>du</i>—a word carrying a core meaning of "potency"—led practitioners to devise a variety of techniques to transform dangerous poisons into efficacious medicines.<br /> Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the early Tang period, Yan Liu considers how the concept of <i>du</i> was central to the ways people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. Liu also examines a wide range of <i>du</i>-possessing minerals, plants, and animal products in classical Chinese pharmacy, including the highly poisonous herb aconite and the popular arsenic drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body's interaction with potent medicines, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful.<br /> <i>Healing with Poisons</i> is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University at Buffalo Libraries.<br /> DOI 10.6069/9780295749013</p>. Nonfiction. History. Medical. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-06-23 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d5f6a75f-c88b-4c91-8c74-387e127f708b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d5f6a75f-c88b-4c91-8c74-387e127f708b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)