![]() ![]() Chinese scholars have classified the dragon as one of the 369 animal species with scales. Biologists in Europe once wrote accounts of the behavior and habitat of dragons, along with lizards and snakes. In legends and folktales, dragons are magical-yet early naturalists often treated these creatures as part of the natural world. Chinese medical scholar Lei Xiao (AD 420-477) Dragons in the Dust ![]() The efficacy of such a medicine is as it were divine!" ![]() After one night take the bags out of the swallows, rub the powder and mix it into medicines for strengthening the kidneys. Take a couple of young swallows and, after taking out their intestines and stomach, put the bags in the swallows and hang them over a well. "For using dragon's bones, first cook odorous plants bathe the bones twice in hot water, pound them to powder and put this in bags of gauze. ![]()
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