Chinese herb tea, also known as medicinal herbal tea, is a kind of tea-soup made from purely Chinese medicinal herbs.

The Chinese were isolating sex and pituitary hormones from human urine and using them for medicinal purposes by 200 BCE.

Saltpeter was known to the Chinese by the mid-1st century AD and there is strong evidence of the use of saltpeter and sulfur in various largely medicinal combinations.

Historically, mushrooms have long been thought to hold medicinal value, especially in traditional Chinese medicine.

They are also in great demand in China because their meat is considered a delicacy and some Chinese believe pangolin scales have medicinal qualities.

In about 2800 BCE the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung sent collectors to distant regions searching for plants with economic or medicinal value.

* Wolfiporia extensa, also called Poria cocos, Tuckahoe, or Indian Bread ; the sclerotium of a fungus used as food by Native Americans and by the Chinese as a medicinal

Fingerroot ( Boesenbergia rotunda ), also known as Chinese ginger, is a medicinal and culinary herb from China and Southeast Asia.

Jilin has abundance of Traditional Chinese medicine resources, with approximately 27, 000 kinds of wild plants and 9, 000 kinds of medicinal herbs.

During Cheng's childhood, his mother took him out to find medicinal plants and taught him the fundamentals of traditional Chinese herbal medicine.

The Chinese value mushrooms for medicinal properties as well as for food.

Jiu has in some cases been mistranslated into English as " wine ", as this use of " wine " may imply not only a non-fortified beverage produced by fermenting grape juice ; but also, jiu may ( and more generally does ) refer to " alcoholic beverages " or " distilled beverage " ( liquor ) in general, including versions of Chinese alcoholic beverages directly produced by the fermentation of various non-grape substances, distilled beverages from grape or non-grape substances, or fortified alcoholic beverages, any of which may have been produced primarily from grains, legumes, fruits, or sometimes other types of ingredients, with or without the addition of other specific ingredients ( some of which being considered tonic or medicinal ).

* Traditional Chinese medicine ( medicinal wines or wine-based medications )

One of the arrested persons was the biggest buyer of tiger parts in India who used to sell them off to the Chinese traditional medicinal market, using women from a nomadic tribe as couriers.

Prehispanic Source Materials enumerates the products that Mindoro traders exchanged with the Chinese as " beeswax, cotton, true pearls, tortoise shell, medicinal betelnuts and yu-ta cloth " for Chinese porcelain, trade gold, iron pots, lead, colored glass beads and iron needles.

Fenugreek seeds are used as a medicinal in Traditional Chinese Medicine under the name Hu Lu Ba ( Traditional Chinese: 胡蘆巴, Simplified Chinese: 胡芦巴, Pinyin: hú lú bā ), where they are considered to warm and tonify kidneys, disperse cold and alleviate pain.

In June 2007, the first-ever documented case of the medicinal sale of black rhino horn in the United States ( confirmed by genetic testing of the confiscated horn ) occurred at a traditional Chinese medicine supply store in Portland, Oregon's Chinatown.

Mushrooms have long been used as a medicinal food and as a tea in Chinese herbology.

American Chinese cuisine often uses ingredients not native and very rarely used in China.

* Moo shu pork – The native Chinese version uses more typically Chinese ingredients ( including wood ear fungi and daylily buds ) and thin flour pancakes while the American version uses vegetables more familiar to Americans and thicker pancakes.

Its use of flavouring is much less heavy-handed than most other Chinese cuisines and depends much on the freshness and quality of the ingredients for taste and flavour.

Where there are historical immigrant Chinese populations, the style of food has evolved and been adapted to local tastes and ingredients, and modified by the local cuisine, to greater or lesser extents.

* Chinese ( and other far-Eastern ) dishes based on the main ingredients being mushroom, noodles, eggplant, string beans, broccoli, rice, tofu and / or mixed vegetables

Traditional Chinese medicine often incorporates ingredients from all parts of plants, the leaf, stem, flower, root, and also ingredients from animals and minerals.

This technique ensures there is no loss of liquid or moisture ( its essences ) from the food being cooked, hence it is often used with expensive ingredients like Chinese herbal medicines.

The inside is then filled with soup ingredients such as Chinese cured ham, and several Chinese herbs.

According to Chinese sources, in the year 1948, 21 individuals were murdered by state sacrificial priests from Lhasa as part of a ritual of enemy destruction, because their organs were required as magical ingredients.

This has influenced Lima's cuisine with the incorporation of the immigrant's ingredients and techniques ( for example, the Chinese extensive use of rice or the Japanese approach to preparing raw fish ).

Typical ingredients include daikon, tofu, konnyaku, Chinese cabbage, potato, negi ( a type of scallion ), shungiku, shiitake mushroom and butter.

** Dote-nabe: Oyster and other ingredients ( typically Chinese cabbage, tofu and shungiku stewed in a pot with its inner lining coated in miso.

The ingredients: duck, wild boar, chicken, beef, pork, daikon radish, carrot, mizuna ( a kind of Chinese cabbage ), hiru ( a kind of shallot ), and dumplings made from buckwheat and rice

The history of Chinese wine has been dated back thousands years before the present time, based on the analysis of residues from ancient ceramic containers, which show the ancient use of grains, fruits, or various combinations of ingredients.

The three main ingredients that contribute to the unique characters of various Chinese alcoholic beverages are the grains, the water, and the liquor starter.

In Ayurveda ( traditional Indian medicine ) and traditional Chinese medicine, liquorice ( म ु ल े ठ ी, 甘草 ) is commonly used in herbal formulae to " harmonize " the other ingredients in the formula and to carry the formula to the twelve " regular meridians " and to relieve a spasmodic cough.

* Chinese masala dosa: noodles and other Chinese ingredients like schezwan sauce are added

A thick, sweet Chinese sauce called meijiang ( 梅醬 ) or meizijiang ( 梅子醬 ), usually translated as " plum sauce ", is also made from the plums, along with other ingredients such as sugar, vinegar, salt, ginger, chili, and garlic.

Rexroth uses many of his early poems when he reads to jazz, including many of his Chinese and Japanese translations ; ;

Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including " hidden ", " esoteric ", " spurious ", " of questionable authenticity ", ancient Chinese " revealed texts and objects " and " Christian texts that are not canonical ".

Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup Y is otherwise found mainly among Nivkhs, and with lower frequency among Tungusic peoples, Koreans, Mongols ( including Kalmyks and Buryats ), Chinese, Japanese, Central Asians, South Siberian Turkic peoples ( e. g. Tuvans, Todjins, Soyots ), Koryaks, Alyutors, Itelmens, Taiwanese aborigines, Filipinos, Indonesians, and Malaysians.

For example: in Africa, the bronze heads of the Kingdom of Benin ; in Europe, Grecian bronzes typically of figures from Greek mythology ; in east Asia, Chinese bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasty — more often ceremonial vessels but including some figurine examples.

An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen.

Most of them were Dutch, French, British ( English ), Arab and Jewish ( from Lebanon and Morocco ), Chinese ( especially from Macau ), American, and Brazilian ( including people of Portuguese and African descent ).

Other languages use fricative and often trilled segments as syllabic nuclei, as in Czech and several languages in Democratic Republic of the Congo, and China, including Mandarin Chinese.

In between eras of multiple kingdoms and warlordism, Chinese dynasties have ruled parts or all of China ; in some eras, including the present, control has stretched as far as Xinjiang and / or Tibet.

The Jesuits, including Matteo Ricci, saw Chinese rituals as " civil rituals " that could co-exist alongside the spiritual rituals of Catholicism.

Confucius is traditionally credited with having authored or edited many of the Chinese classic texts including all of the Five Classics, but modern scholars are cautious of attributing specific assertions to Confucius himself.

Traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) (: " Chinese medicine ") is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common theoretical concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2, 000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage ( Tui na ), exercise ( qigong ), and dietary therapy.

However, most of the brightest stars of Centaurus, including α Cen, θ Cen, ε Cen and η Cen, can be seen in the Chinese sky.

Tibetans also had a tradition of cavalry warfare, in several military engagements early on with the Chinese Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 AD ), including Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tufan in 638.

Now with an established national government in Nanjing, and supported by conservative allies including Hu Hanmin, Chiang's expulsion of the Communists and their Soviet advisers led to the beginning of the Chinese Civil War.

Mandarin Chinese Guoyu (" Nation-Language "), was promoted as an standard tongue, and the establishment of communications facilities ( including radio ) were used to encourage a sense of Chinese nationalism in a way that was not possible when the nation lacked an effective central government.

In 1939 Muslim leaders Isa Yusuf Alptekin and Ma Fuliang were sent by Chiang to several Middle eastern countries, including Egypt, Turkey, and Syria, to gain support for the Chinese War against Japan, and to express his support for Muslims.

More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law.

Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have used the Daodejing as a source of inspiration.

" This term, which was variously used by other Chinese philosophers ( including Confucius, Mencius, Mozi, and Hanfeizi ), has special meaning within the context of Daoism, where it implies the essential, unnamable process of the universe.

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.