Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the professors invading TV have gone nearly the entire way to pure entertainment. Rutgers' handsomely mustached Dr. Mason Gross plays straight man for Comic Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money, and Northwestern's Bergen Evans stars as moderator on Du Mont's Down You Go. When the show moved this season from Chicago to Manhattan, Evans was fortunately on leave from Northwestern to work on a new book on slang. He will therefore not have to make his choice between teaching and TV until this fall, when his leave expires...
...instance, is rampant where drinking water is likely to come from an open sewer, and by the standards of Western medicine it is a stubborn disorder to cure. But a hospital in Shanghai reports 100% success in 16 cases treated with pai ton weng (white-haired elder), a medicinal herb touted in a medical classic of about 2,000 years ago. So now a factory in Hankow is making a drug brewed from this widely grown herb...
...wealthier Chinese in the cities could count on a handful of Western-trained doctors practicing modern medicine; in the far interior many of the poorest Chinese got equally good care, free, from medical missions. In between, tens of millions relied on the thousands of traditional and often secret herb remedies. For serious ills they might seek treatment by a doctor versed in acupuncture (TIME, June 2, 1952), in which special needles are thrust into the body at a specified angle and to a certain depth, and in surprising places considering the complaint (to cure headaches, the needle may be thrust...
Headaches & Blood Pressure. Red reformers did a complete flipflop. Health Minister Li Teh-chuan* began praising the "medical legacy of the nation" and the efficacy of herb medicines "proved by several thousand years' clinical experience." Some, of course, may actually be beneficial: Western doctors do not forget that they have derived modern wonders such as quinine and reserpine from primitive cures. But the vast majority are as useless as ground-up rhinoceros horn to cure impotence. Still, the peasants are being ordered to plant more medicinal herbs, and Government agencies are buying them and keeping prices down. Government chemists...
...merchant for a loan, by convincing him that he is an old acquaintance. He gulls a sympathetic gentleman with a billion-dollar worldwide relief scheme ("Missions I would quicken with the Wall Street spirit"). Ever extolling the power of positive thinking, the confidence-man takes the form of an herb doctor with a cure-all called the Omni-Balsamic Reinvigorator ("Health is good, and nature cannot work...