Have you ever seen someone whose head keeps rocking? It is not difficult to perform cataract surgery on the eyes on the constantly rocking head, and the patient is still the prime minister of a country, but Chinese medicine has done it with a needle.
One day in 1972, Tang Youzhi, a master of "Golden Needle Dialing Surgery", was urgently notified to go to Cambodia to treat cataracts for his prime minister.
Who is Tang Youzhi? He is a master of traditional Chinese medicine, the inheritor of the golden needle dialing technique of ophthalmology, and is best at treating eye diseases.
On the way to Cambodia, Tang Youzhi learned that the then Cambodian Prime Minister Prince Binnu had a cataract and asked China for help, hoping that Chinese doctors could perform cataract surgery for him. Premier Zhou Enlai personally appointed Tang Youzhi, an ophthalmologist at the time and a master of the "Golden Needle Picking", to be in charge of this matter.
After arriving in Cambodia, Tang Youzhi knew that this operation was something he had never encountered before, and the difficulty was more difficult than ascending to the sky.
It turned out that the then Prime Minister of Cambodia, Prince Binnu, suffered from severe head tremor. The head is constantly swaying, and the body sometimes sways with it, even when falling asleep at night.
Before Tang Youzhi's arrival, Prince Binnu had been treated in France and other Western countries, but Western countries refused to operate on him. Local anesthesia cannot be controlled, and general anesthesia cannot be controlled. While his head kept rocking, Western doctors could not open the operation, so Western countries did not dare to give him cataract surgery. So he asked China for help.
When he met Prince Binnu, Tang Youzhi knew that the operation was a hundred times more difficult than expected. Prince Binnu did not stop shaking his head during his sleep, and when he heard that he was going to have surgery, the frequency of shaking increased to about 120 times per minute, in this case, how to perform cataract surgery on the eyes that grew on the rocking head? And surgery is performed with needles.
What to do about it? You can't just go back without treatment. He was sent by Premier Zhou Enlai, and no matter how difficult it is, he has to come up with a way. After observing for a few days, Tang Youzhi thought of what he called "no way", using his elbows to tightly clamp Prince Binnu's cheeks, his two hands holding the surgical instruments at the same time, Prince Binnu's head swayed, and his hands also swayed, which could form a relative stability.
In this way, Tang Youzhi successfully performed the most difficult operation in his life. After the operation, Prince Binnu regained his sight without any postoperative complications.
When Western ophthalmologists heard about this, they exclaimed incredulously!
Explanation of terms: Golden acupuncture is called golden grate in ancient mainland China, and is an operation performed by ancient mainland medical scientists on cataract eye disease. The mainland medical community was able to perform this operation more than a thousand years ago, which cannot but be said to be advanced in the history of ophthalmology in the world. Other famous poets of the Tang Dynasty also repeatedly mentioned the golden needle barrier. For example, in Du Fu's poems, there is a verse that "the golden grate scratches the eyes, and the mirror image does not leave the quan".
In the literature after the Tang Dynasty, it can be found that the use of golden grate to treat cataracts to restore the patient's sight. For example, Guo Yi of the Yuan Dynasty recorded in the "Notes on Xue Zhuzhai" that Empress Xianren of the Song Dynasty was blind in both eyes, and the doctors recruited by the imperial court failed to cure Wei. At this time, a Taoist priest was recruited and used a golden needle to remove the cataract technique to peel off the yin in Empress Wei's left eye and restore her sight.