The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[eggyk]

Well, sorry for the confusion.  Blame it on rhetorical questions with recursive "what if"s, replying to several people at the same time, etc...

No problem 

Again, i did not claim that the absence of that visible connection is "indicative of a non-european origin".  It is just not indicative of a any particular origin, European or not.    

Ah, I see. I took "why is there no visible connection to the european medicine of the time?" as an argument against VMS being a book on european medicine, and then extended that to "against being european", which you did not say. 

The similarity is only that the VMS has separate sections for Herbal+Pharma, Zodiac, and "Recipes".  That is not specifically European.  

Yes, but I was actually also referring to the order that they appeared in, too. Are there any eastern works that contain all of the sections in a similar way to in the VMS?

And the structure of the Starred Parags section is very similar to that of the Shennong Bencao -- not just visually or qualitatively, but quantitatively.

Well.. I wonder if the SPS is also quantitatively similar to the bloodletting and recipe sections of that german manuscript..