I was looking for a basic how-to for oven roasted potatoes and I found a great one. I did a variation though: rendered bacon fat instead of the butter (same ratio)! OMG! Hubby said that the side dish out shone the most excellent pork roast that I served with it. Diners wish their homefries were this good.
The Confucians believed that it was important to present oneself to 'the ancestors' whole, and there-fore one of the most feared methods of execution in ancient China was decapitation. Acupuncture and related methods were the logical answer to this constraint, as they were able to cure internal disease with external means.
And thatâs what leads us to our question: How important was acupuncture really in ancient China? Not in theory and in books, but in daily practice? 1 Stones, needles and moxibustion In Chapter 12 of the Suwen we are told: The stone therapy came from the east ... drug therapy came from the west ... moxibustion came from the north ... acupuncture