Hemp cultivation for fibre was recorded in
\nChina as early as 2800 BCE. China was known as the
\nland of \u201cHemp and Mulberry.\u201d Mulberries were used
\nto feed the silk worms that produced the silk needed
\nfor the clothing of royal figures. Hemp fibre stalks
\nwere used for clothing, fishing nets, and textiles.
\nHemp is pronounced, \u201cMa\u201d \u5927\u9ebb(d\u00e0m\u00e1)
\nor diama(di- 1. a prefix occurring in
\nloanwords from Greek, where it meant \u201ctwo,\u201d \u201ctwice,\u201d
\n\u201cdouble.) In Chinese, meaning the plant with 2 forms;
\nmale and female. The male flowering plant was used
\nfor medicinal purposes in teas and tinctures, and the
\nfemale flower was used as psychoactive pain relief.
\nHemp was the first plant used in a WAR
\nconflict. Asiatic cultures used the stalks of the hemp
\nplant to make strong bows, arrows, and string for
\nweaponry. This eventually led to the plant becoming
\nexclusively grown by certain farmers ensuring the
\nprotection of China.
\nEmporer Shen Nun was even bandaged in hemp leaves
\nafter a battle! Red Emperor, Shen Nung, wrote, The
\nClassic of the Roots and Herbs of the Divine Farmer,
\nin which he included marijuana as a treatment for
\narthritis and earaches.
\nDuring the Han Dynasty, (221 -220 BC) Tsai Lin
\nposed as dead, and reenacted an \u201corganized
\nresurrection\u201d with burned hemp around his coffin.
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\nAround this time the invention of hemp paper known
\nas \u201cBa Qiao\u201d was established. Examples of the paper
\nwere recovered from the Han dynasty tombs in the
\nShan Xi province.
\nThe Chinese also wore hemp clothing in honor of the
\ndeceased legend. Xia Xiao Zheng even kept the oldest
\nAgricultural Treaty referring to hemp as one of the
\nmain crops in China and the Chinese were the first to
\nrecord techniques of hemp sowing, cultivation, and
\nprocessing.<\/p>\n
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\nPortrait of the Red Emperor Shen Nung (2838 \u2013 2698
\nB.C.)<\/p>\n
The origin of the Chinese pharmacological book, The
\nHerbal (also known by various other names) has been
\nlost in history and is now the subject of numerous
\nmyths and legends. The most renowned title existed
\nsometime around 2500 BC. The Red Emperor himself
\n(via divine inspiration) wrote the Pen Ts\u2019ao or \u201cThe
\nHerbal,\u201d which is still in use today by practitioners of
\nTraditional Chinese Medicine.
\n*Shen Nung was traditionally clothed in a garment of
\nherbal leaves.
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\nBecause China has used a written script for over 4,000
\nyears, one might think that documenting their historical
\nuse of Medical Cannabis would be an easy task.
\nHowever, from a historian\u2019s standpoint, this has proven
\nto be one of the most challenging of sections yet.
\nGranted, our purpose here is to simply establish, or
\ndocument the industrial uses of the Hemp Plant as a
\nsource of food, cloth, oil, paper etc.
\nWhat about its medical uses? Recalling that
\nour main purpose here is not simply to repeat what
\nother websites are saying; but to actually present the
\nreader with first hand documentation actual historical
\nendeavors that occurred. The goal is to display credible
\nevents that other publications can pick up. This has
\nproven to be no easy task, according to the Yearbook
\n[1913] of the United States Department of Agriculture.
\n34 | P a g e<\/p>\n
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