Description: This image shows Sun Si Miao (King of Chinese medicine) picking herbs in the outdoors. This image includes the “appliances” that ancient people needed in order to prepare their herbs for further usage such as cooking medicinal meals or to drink the brewed medicinal herbs.

 

Bibliography:

Anderson, E. N. “Traditional Medical Values of Food.” The Food of China. Yale University Press, 1988. 229-43.

Farquhar, Judith. “Medicinal Meals.” Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 47-77.