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Shen Nung
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Shen Nung

Chinese legendary ruler and god of medicine and agriculture. The immediate predecessor of the mythical Yellow Emperor, Shen Nung is known as the Agricultural Emperor for his invention of the cart and other agricultural implements.

He is revered for his study of plants and their uses in curing disease and is said to have classified 365 species of medicinal plants. He died at the age of 168 and became an Immortal.
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Its application was first recorded in the Shennong Compendium of Materia Medica (Shennong Bencaojing) and nowadays widely used in the treatment of cough and dyspnea, headache, rheumatic arthralgia, sinusitis and toothache (Drew et al.
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Chinese Herb Invigorates The benefits of Szechuan lovage root extract (Ligusticum Chuanxiong Root Extract) were first documented in the Shennong Bencao Jing published in 500 A.
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Shennong was fairly knowledgeable about science in his day and he believed water should be boiled in order to make it safe enough for drinking.
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