In those years, we suffered from conjunctivitis together

I have always said: the real carriers of traditional Chinese medicine are among the people. After reading this post, you will know that what I said is true.

In my mind, grandma is the most perfect and sacred. She supported our family with her own back. She is illiterate, but very visionary and intelligent. Spinning and weaving, flower arranging and embroidery, brewing wine and making vinegar, almost nothing in family life can stump her. Not only that, she also knows scraping and acupuncture.

Since the 1960s, as far as I can remember, there has never been a shortage of water in my hometown. There would be heavy rain and snow every year, and the big pits around the village were always full of water. In summer, these puddles became a great place for us children to play. We caught fish, shrimps and crabs. It not only allowed us to have fun in the water but also improved our lives.

From the moment we take off our cotton-padded jackets in summer, we soak in the water, and until the beginning of autumn when frost falls, we cannot leave these big pits. Whenever it rains continuously after the beginning of autumn, we kids will get contagious pink eye as if we had made an appointment. This disease is highly contagious and if one person gets it, it will infect the rest of the group. The symptoms are that the whites of the eyes turn red first, and there is a feeling of friction, then it spreads to the eyelids, and within a few hours the eyes become swollen like a bell.

At this time, grandma became the volunteer doctor for the whole village. During the day, she would sit under the jujube tree in the yard and sew shoe soles. People with conjunctivitis would come by themselves if they were older and call grandma or aunt, or those with higher generations would call "so-and-so's family" (so-and-so was grandpa's name). Grandma would greet them with a smile. She had no equipment or medicines, and all she had was the big shoe-sew needle in her hand. She would pull someone's ear over, and give them an injection in the black, swollen veins to let out a few drops of blood. The swelling would go away the next day.

What I like most is watching grandmas giving acupuncture to children. When adults bring their children, the children are afraid of injections and hide away. At this time, the grandma will not rush to give the injection, but will coax the child first, "Hey, baldy, why do your eyes become a line? Are you a bell for stealing people? Come here, let me see, how can I say this to my wife?" Then, she will pull the child into her arms, touch his head and say: "Let me see, why do you have a little needle on your ear?" Let me see, let me see." While the children relaxed their vigilance, the needle had already been inserted. Some children burst into tears, saying that their ears were gone. At this time, the grandmother always laughed heartily, so happily.

This acupuncture therapy is very effective and rarely needs to be used a second time. Later, when I grew up, my grandmother passed this skill to me. I have tried it many times and it is indeed better than Virus Eye Drops and antibiotics. This method can not only treat conjunctivitis, but also has a very good effect on blurred vision, dry eyes, and excessive eye discharge in the elderly. When my grandmother got older, her eyes became irritated and her vision became blurred from watching TV for a long time. At this time, she would give me an embroidery needle and say, "Here, give me a shot." After the shot, she would say, "Oh! It feels so cool and refreshing."

My grandmother passed away many years ago. Many useful things were not passed down because they were taken away. Only this skill was passed down to me. I will pass it on and it cannot be lost again.

This is just one type of bloodletting therapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In ancient times, Chinese medicine bloodletting therapy was often used in emergency treatment. For stroke caused by high blood pressure, Chinese medicine has the method of bleeding by pricking the ten fingers. That is, pricking the ten fingers to let the blood flow. I think this method has certain scientific reasons. Pricking the fingers to let blood flow reduces blood vessel pressure, which will reduce the amount of bleeding at the rupture point of cerebral hemorrhage, thereby reducing or reducing the harm caused by cerebral hemorrhage to the brain.

Bloodletting therapy can also be applied to many aspects. Some blood stasis and cold diseases, arthritis, atrophy, low back disease, sciatica, headache, eye pain, thrombosis, teenage acne, psoriasis, eczema, etc. can be treated with this method.

The tools for post-traumatic therapy are simple and easy to use, but for some reason, this aspect is rarely covered in Chinese medicine school textbooks.