Article reprinted from: Dr. Dongping
Expert Profile: Huang Dongping, Chief Physician of General Surgery, Professor, Master Tutor, Head of the New Round of Shanghai Key Medical Specialties. Deputy Director of Surgery of Putuo People's Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Director of Clinical Nutrition Department of Putuo People's Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University. He has been engaged in general surgery for 35 years, and specializes in open and laparoscopic gastric cancer, radical resection of colorectal cancer and its comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, as well as supportive treatment of enteral nutrition.
In the previous article, we talked about the interesting story of ancient celebrities suffering from hemorrhoids, in addition to Su Shi, Zhang Juzheng and other literati who were not spared; Cixi, Han Wendi Liu Heng and other royal nobles also tended to be under the threat of hemorrhoids. From this point of view, the miraculous symptom of hemorrhoids is "not picky", and ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries are not spared. But then again, with the "difficult disease" of hemorrhoids, there is naturally a "medicine to the disease" treatment method, today I will lead you to appreciate the ancient ancestors to treat hemorrhoids "strange" methods.
The most "dog blood" treatment ----- dog bladder blowing tube hard pull
As early as 2,000 years ago (and even more than 4,000 years ago), there were treatments for hemorrhoids in China. Archaeologists have found a number of medical books while excavating Mawangdui, including even detailed records of the treatment of hemorrhoids.
1. Prepare a dog's bladder and a hollow bamboo tube (not too thick).
2. Put the bladder on the bamboo tube and insert the end of the bladder into the patient's anus.
3. Ask a small partner or big partner to blow air on the empty bamboo tube to make the bladder expand in the patient's body.
4. Drag the swollen bladder out with the empty bamboo tube until the anus is prolapsed.
5. Use a knife to cut off the protruding sores, and finally put on analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs.
But the question came again, how did the anus that had just come out make him go back? Hiring someone to beautifully give the solution - hanging the person upside down, and then finding a basin of cold water, inadvertently pouring it on the patient's chest and abdomen, the patient's muscles will contract rapidly when they receive a huge stimulus, and the anus will enter in response.
The most "disgusting" treatment ---- licking and sucking
Note that the registration of expert numbers may not have treatment! The emperors of ancient China were even domineering in their methods of curing hemorrhoids. It is recorded in the "Zhuangzi Miscellaneous Articles and Lie Yukou" that the King of Qin also suffered from hemorrhoids, and when he traveled, he was afraid of being tormented by the pain of hemorrhoids, so he specially arranged a car with 5 to 6 people sitting on the car, and the task of these people was to line up to suck and lick the hemorrhoids of the King of Qin. The idiom "suck carbuncle licking hemorrhoids" comes from this. The medical team at that time believed that licking the hemorrhoids of the tongue could remove its poison and dissolve its blood.
In the Han Dynasty, emperor Wen of Han suffered a poison sore attack, and finally fainted in pain. The male pet Deng Tong scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks, thinking, "If the emperor dies, what can I do in the future?" I don't know where his courage came from, he pounced on Emperor Wen at once, and sucked on the rotten sores on his ass. Emperor Wen's pain was actually reduced by a few points, and he woke up. Emperor Wen turned his head to look at it, and saw that it was Deng Tong, and was greatly moved.
The most "expensive" treatment ---- the Japanese national treasure "Obscura Tenmu" to pound the medicine
Chinese culture is broad and profound. Although we have sorted out the "improper" hemorrhoid treatment above, the fact is that china has long had a systematic and scientific herbal treatment method for hemorrhoids in ancient Times. And the bowl used as a medicine mash, Kendan, is now used by the Japanese imperial family to taste tea and is regarded as a national treasure.
The Song Dynasty's "Wei Family Collection Fang", which volume 7 quotes "Li Defense Five Hemorrhoids Fang" said:
Dry medicine, alias du sheng scatter, dry hemorrhoid scatter. Good white alum four two, raw arsenic two dollars five, cinnabar one dollar (raw research, order very fine). The upper study is finely minced, first the arsenic is placed in the construction cup, the second is covered with white alum, and the smoke is extinguished with fire calcination, and its arsenic goes with the smoke, but it is borrowed from the alum in the alum, and the dry alum is taken out, and the research order is very fine. First look at the size of the hemorrhoid, put the calcined white alum into a little bit of raw Vermilion, make a second taste, adjust the water to make it thicker, apply it to the hemorrhoid with grates, the surrounding orders are all over, the day is three; you must carefully look at the color of the hemorrhoids, turn black, but it is gradually taken down, until the night there is yellow paste water flowing out, lining it with cloth, and taking the medicine again in the middle of the night, and still taking medicine three times in the coming day, even if there is some small pain. When changing the dressing, use new water or warm soup, brush the hemorrhoids with a wool pen on the side of the hemorrhoid, remove the old medicine, but put on the new medicine. The second time with the mustard soup washed, three or two days later, the yellow paste water will flow out of the end, still look at the hemorrhoids burned black as a degree, with grates to beat the hemorrhoids, see gradually hard black, but in the dry medicine to add raw Vermilion to reduce alum, natural medicine slowly slow.
The Jianzhan in the above "Study of each of the above is a fine end, first put the arsenic in the Jianzhan, the second is covered with the end of the alum, and the smoke is extinguished with fire" Is the four Jianzhan "Obscure Heavenly Eyes" that are now handed down in Japan, and the Japanese Royal Tea Tasting uses this...
This formula has been improved by the Ming Dynasty. The Authentic Surgery records:
Those who treat internal hemorrhoids, first use to clean the internal organs with tonic medicine, and then use the hemorrhoids to scatter the anus, which naturally floods out when the tablets are taken, that is, washed with onion soup, dried up and scattered, three times a day in the morning, noon and evening, washed with warm soup, and then medicated, light for seven days, heavy for eleven days, its hemorrhoids are naturally black and dry, stop the dry medicine. At that time, the cracks on the hemorrhoids flow pus, change to wash once a day with hemorrhoid soup, and after the hemorrhoids fall, change the medicinal muscles such as the raw muscle dispersion or the wind chick cream, and the weak take the tonic, and the mouth can be completed in half a month.
This "dry hemorrhoid method" has been applied to modern times, and its principle and method are the same except for the improvement of drugs.
In addition, the "dry hemorrhoid ingot" recorded in the "Orthodox Surgery" is also a very interesting method, called "three products and one gun". The so-called "three products", that is, alum, arsenic, male yellow three drugs; and "a gun", said that the use of the party: the medicine into a strip, like a "gun" into the sore hole, so as to achieve the role of removing rotten flesh and curing hemorrhoids.
In addition, the editors also learned that there are still "ice water treatment methods" in Chinese folk to treat hemorrhoids. In the treatment of hemorrhoids, first chat with the patient, suddenly a basin of ice water splashed on, and then the patient suddenly cold, chrysanthemum suddenly contracted, its strength is large enough to suck the external hemorrhoids, non-constipation or diarrhea will no longer probe out of the small pink flesh.
The patient fell to the ground and scolded the mother, and after scolding, he prostrated his head and knelt down to thank him. Finally, prescribe some medicines to regulate the stomach and intestines, take them internally, and then prescribe some anti-swelling and pain-relieving drugs, and apply them externally.
In addition, some netizens said that his grandmother treated hemorrhoids by using a turtle (guessed to be Burmese) to peck off the hemorrhoids after the ointment; others said that rubbing farts with soil embryos (or soil blocks) can treat hemorrhoids.
In short, the latter few "unreliable" treatment methods are only shared here because there is no literature or data, but more exploration. However, whether it is "dog bladder blowing tube hard pulling", "licking and sucking method", "ice water treatment" or "turtle bite method" are not scientific enough treatment methods. Regardless of the efficacy and whether it is cured or not, the secondary harm caused to the patient alone is chilling.
Of course, whenever you see these "strange" hemorrhoid treatments, you can't help but shout: the sky is not born, and the eternity is as long as night.