intensive studies and carrying on numerous experiments in order to 

 determine scientifically the exact effects of certain Chinese Herbs upon 

 the human system. 



On March 19, 1928, some of the officials of the University of Cali- 

 fornia ordered through the Fong Wan Company, ten pounds of Ma 

 Huang to be sent to Washington, D. C., so that the curative powers of 

 this plant might be investigated there. The manner in which Ma 

 Huang is used by the Chinese in Herbal Compounds is quite different 

 from the ways that the Americans use it in combination with other 

 things. The Chinese method is not harmful. The authorities of the Uni- 

 versity of California have also bought, mainly from the Fong Wan 

 Company, more than three hundred specimens of other herbs for use 

 in their laboratory research. 



CHAULMOOGRA OIL, DIGITALIS, EPHEDRIN, MERCURY, 

 SALVARSAN AND NUMEROUS OTHER DRUGS 



. . . have been used in China for 

 thousands of years. However, dur- 

 ing the past few centuries, the use 

 of Mercury and Salvarsan has been 

 gradually abandoned, as the Chi- 

 nese have discovered that these 

 drugs contain too much poison for 

 the human system to cope with. 

 The Chinese have therefore resorted 

 more and more to herbs, which, 

 while having great healing power, 

 leave none of the bad after effects 

 common to drugs. Digitalis, an ex- 

 tract of Foxglove Root, is beneficial 

 to the heart. Ephedrin is an ex- 

 tract from the Chinese herb "Ma 

 Huang." 



Chaulmoogra Oil for leprosy, so 

 recently acclaimed by the Western 

 World, was known to the Chinese 

 long before any foreigner ever visited China. The Chinese Encyclo- 

 pedia of Herbal Science, which was published by the Chinese Govern- 



A branch from the Cltaulmoogra tree, 



showing scods from which wl 



Is extracted. 



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