The fast advancement in the science and technology has
no doubt provided mankind with many conveniences and
facilities in the field of medicine, but even now we
cannot deny the significance and importance of the
herbal cure and treatment. Chinese herbal medicine has
great antiquity and history with beneficial and
curative roots extending back to Zhou Empire, Late
Bronze/Early Iron Age at about 2500 to 3000 years ago.
Due to its shamanistic origins, the current form of
etiological concepts is the roots of the ancient
herbalism in China now days. In the latter half of the
first millennium, there was a troubled socio-economic
environment was prevailing in the China and this
philosophy and idea of the causes of disease in human
society related directly to that disturbed environment
of the country at that time. During that dark time of
depression and distress, people found the only solution
of the sickness in herbal medicine to extirpate those
unwanted intruders.
