Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c16.23

c16.23

The medical practice in China also was considerably influenced by Hindu chemistry. In Book XXXIV of the "Sui Shoo" (A.D. 589–618) Nagarjuna appears under the Chinese appellation of Loong (i.e., Dragon) Shoo (i.e., Tree), the exact equivalent of the Hindu name, as an authority on recipes. The chemistry of the Tantrists was further assimilated by the Chinese through treatises like the "book of recipes narrated by Chipo" (Chinese for Shiva, the god of the "Tantras").