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Tongrentang Pharmacy

Located in an old part of Beijing, south of Tian'anmen Square, in business for over 300 years, this pharmacy was once a royal dispensary during the Qing Dynasty and still produces all the pills and secret concoctions once used by royalty.  The enormous size of this pharmacy is overwhelming, as is the selection of remedies--small and large eggs, snakes coiled in spirals, dried monkeys, toads, tortoises, centipedes, grasshoppers, small fish, stag antlers, rhinoceros horns and testicles.  And then there are the thousand kinds of dried and preserved herbs, blossoms, roots, berries and fruits.