Physiognomy personality. Physiognomy is also sometimes referred to as anthroposcopy, though the expression was more common in the 19th century when the word originated. Notions of the relationship between an individual's outward appearance and inner character are historically ancient, and occasionally appear in early Greek poetry. Siddhars from ancient India are also known to have defined "samudrika lakshanam" that identifies personal characteristics with body features. Chinese physiognomy or face reading ("mianxiang") reaches back at least to the Northern Song period. The first indications of a developed physiognomic theory appear in fifth century BC Athens, with the works of Zopyrus (who was
Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body placenta in the ground for 7 to 8 years, and it dissolves into a fluid that is as clean as ice. In south China, people blend human placenta with "gāncǎo" 甘草 ""Glycyrrhiza uralensis"; Chinese licorice root", "shēngmá" 升麻 ""Cimicifuga simplex"; bugbane", and other drugs, which they store in a bottle, and bury in the ground for 3 to 5 years. Then they dig it up and use it medicinally. The 52.24 "rénpò" 人魄 "Human ghost (of a hanged person)" medicine refers to Chinese hun and po soul dualism between the "hun" 魂 "spiritual, ethereal, yang soul" that leaves the body