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Treating halitosis
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IN the eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220), Emperor Huan (AD 132-167) one day gave a tiny, pungent, nail-shaped object to an elderly official with bad breath. He asked the official, Diao Cun, to put it in his mouth.
Diao had no idea what the object was and feared the emperor wanted to poison him. He dared not eat it right away, rushed home and told his family to prepare for his funeral.
A friend who stopped by noticed that the nail-shaped object was actually cloves, a remedy for bad breath.
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