Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t3.40

v1.c6.s2.t3.40

five viscera, strengthen muscles and bones and help in digestion. It could reduce weight and was good for facial appearance after having been taken for a long time. So it was called as salsify. Common people obtained it after the spread from the palace and Tantric Master Amoghavajra presented it to court officials and further extended the scope of its use in China. Li Shizhen absorbed the achievements of previous literature as well as corrected previous errors, supplemented new recognition and methods of medicines, and made some Indian medicines (such as haritaki and chavica roxburghii) which became common drugs of traditional Chinese medicine and gradually lost the characteristics of foreign culture and completed the process of thorough localisation.