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Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body, a Common card
Li Shizhen's Bencao gangmu, the classic materia medica of traditional Chinese medicine, included 35 human drugs, including organs, bodily fluids, and excreta.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body quiz: 3 questions
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Find the missing word
Crude drugs derived from the human body were commonplace in the early history of ______.
Answer
medicine. Crude drugs derived from the human body were commonplace in the early history of medicine. From the Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body article on Wikipedia.
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Answer
Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in Queensland. Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in Queensland 81 · Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body 75 · Group 4 element 72 · Xavier Bichat 68 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Crude drugs derived from the human body were commonplace in the early history of medicine.
- Some of these TCM human drug usages are familiar from alternative medicine, such as medicinal breast milk and urine therapy.
- Others are uncommon, such as the "mellified man", which was a western nostrum allegedly prepared from the mummy of a holy man who only ate honey during his last days and whose corpse had been immersed in honey for 100 years.
Why it is Common
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Text : Wikipedia, Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : 胶花妹妹~hellobobo~, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
