Their efficacy may not have been scientifically tested to the same degree as the drugs listed in the table above. However there may be historical, cultural or anecdotal evidence linking their use to the treatment of Anxiety and Stress.
During the Great Leap Forward, farming was organized into communes and the cultivation of private plots forbidden. Iron and steel production was identified as a key requirement for economic advancement. Millions of peasants were ordered away from agricultural work to join the iron and steel production workforce.
With the announcement of the Second Five Year Plan in 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong of the Communist Party of China announced what was called the Great Leap Forward. This initiative's goal was to quickly and thoroughly convert the established agrarian economy of China into that of a modern, industrialized state run according to communist principles. This initiative failed spectacularly, a failure most clearly exhibited in which disaster?