Salvia refers to the root of Salvia miltiorrhiza, sometimes described as Chinese sage or red sage root. Salvia root (danshen), as employed in Chinese medicine, is different in nature from the other sage herbs, despite the botanical relationship.
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In China, for example, there was no biology. Observations and theoretical perspectives on the manifestations of life were scattered through a very different grouping of knowledge that I will sketch out below. Alchemists, East and West, set down a great de