China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold […].
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v