Tag Archives: Zhang Wuben

Chicken blood injections and other health crazes

Zhang Wuben wasn’t the first purveyor of peculiar miracle cures. In the mid-20th Century, Chinese citizens endured fads of chicken blood injections, kombucha, water, and hand-waving.

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Zhang Wuben and the traditional Chinese medicine racket

How diet guru Zhang Wuben, a laid-off worker made himself a Chinese medicine doctor and then was denounced as a fraud.

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A doctor who prescribes beans and eggplant as cure-alls

Zhang Wuben charges 2,000 RMB for a consult and prescribes mung beans, eggplant, and daikon. Now he’s being exposed as a fraud in the Chinese press.

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