AN ELEMENT OF NATURE IS HUMANITY'S 

 GREATEST HEALER 



Year after year, since the establishment of the Fong Wan herb busi- 

 ness in Oakland, the public has been repeatedly informed that the com- 

 plaints of the human system and the ailments of any part of the body 

 can be corrected and overcome by bringing the five principal internal 

 organs, viz. : the lungs, liver, kidneys, heart, and stomach, into harmon- 

 ious functioning. A person is then free from all ailments, just the same 

 as when the five principal elements of Nature (the mineral, vegetation, 

 water, fire, and earth elements) work in unison, there is no extremely 

 hot or cold weather; neither are there earthquakes, volcanoes, thunder- 

 storms, epidemics nor pestilences. 



China is a nation of 450,000,000 people. She has experienced pesti- 

 lences and epidemics of various kinds. So far, however, during the 

 last 5000 years of her history, not one of those epidemics had ever last- 

 ed long and never has one of them ever done China any real harm. How- 

 ever, foreign physicians have practiced in China for approximately only 

 thirty years. Even at the present time most of them are stationed at 

 treaty ports or in the foreign settlements. The Chinese rely upon the 

 Element furnished by God to keep down their epidemics and pestilences. 



In coping with individual ailments, the Chinese base their entire sys- 

 tem of healing upon the five principal elements. The herbs belong to 

 the vegetation element. When cooked with the water element they erad- 

 icate disease. This method of healing has been handed through the 

 ages. For over 5000 years, the great men of China as well as the com- 

 mon people have used the herbs. Chinese students have been sent 

 abroad to study the healing methods, the so-called new inventions and 

 discoveries of all the principal nations in the world, but so far they 

 have not discovered any especially successful methods excepting that 

 of surgery. Even in surgical practice, moreover, a great many mis- 

 takes are made. Many unnecessary operations are performed and many 

 premature deaths caused in cases that might have been easily and 

 quickly relieved by merely drinking a few cups of herb tea instead of 

 submitting to dangerous operations. 



The herbs constitute a portion of the vegetation element. The five 

 principal elements were created by God. Therefore, the herbs are pro- 

 vided by God. Through his extensive and intensive knowledge of herbs, 

 the FONG WAN HERBALIST has relieved over 30,000 sufferers. Thou- 



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