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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Chinese herbal medicine and the doctrine of signatures

18 August 2007 Herbal Medicine

An important concept in most schools of herbalism is that of the doctrine of signatures. The doctrine of signatures states that the herbs will, in some way, resemble their realm of therapeutic action in one way or another. The resemblance may be physical or subtly symbolic, obvious or hidden, but it is there. [...]

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