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Q: Custom or stupidity?!
I was teaching my usual class yesterday and I noticed one of the girls (about 8 years old) had an open wound on her forehead, you know, like you fell over and your head skidded a bit and took the skin off type of abrasion.
I always ask the kids what happened if I see they have a bandaid, bandage or limp and with some actions by me to confirm that what I think they said is what actually happened.
Anyway, I didn't quite get what happened so I asked the assistant what the student said. Well apparently the kid's grandmother purposely caused the wound because the little girl was sick (cold I believe) and cutting open the forehead speeds up recovery. Say what!!!!
This is up there with no showering while having your period, staying in bed a month after the birth of your baby and, it seems, buying 10 chickens to kill every day so a woman can get her strength back after giving birth (a recent post).
Are there any other wonderful Chinese medical remedies from the dark ages that I can take back with me to Australia next month and try out on my family? Or at least get me a good laugh over a beer at a much missed BBQ?
For complete cure's recipe, you should ask which song Gran was singing during the 'healing'
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You're a bastard, Devil! Going back to Australia huh... who the bloody hell do you think you are!
Gees that gives me the shits....
And you're gunna have a barby too... I spose you'll stand out in the warmth of the day and suck on cold tinnies too...I'm right, aren't I?? Yes, I am.
Strewth....lucky bastard.
To address your question....the completely illogical practice of sticking everybody who comes to a doctor/hospital with an IV infusion....usually containing antibiotics. Got a headache...IV. Got a splinter....IV. Got erectile dysfunction....IV, and advice to eat penis of beast.
Good trip matey...at the best! And then come back and get those books sorted...
DaqingDevil:
Jeezuz I've missed my BBQ's. Had a couple of reasonable Chinese ones but not a scratch on what we have at home. I mean you can't even get steak and snaggers here! Be able to talk cricket and footy and may even talk at normal pace.
Mate it was -18C here yesterday. I'm going to be in shorts, t shirt and a coldie in my hand at EVERY opportunity back home.
You're right about the IV's here though.
Your name always conjures up a great Richmond player - Royce Hart.
Cheers!
royceH:
What are you Devil...a copper?
Ok matey, you've got me. The greatest centre half forward of all time. Single handedly won 9 premierships. Kicked 3 thousand goals....won 14 best and fairests. And mate; I used to be able to fly!
icnif77:
We (THEY) can buy horse (made of) snaggers on the outside market in my city
. I stay away from snags in China. My imagination is going wild, when I think about content varieties of the snags here.
Im not joking, offer a pregnant woman duck or ducks feet to eat. They will eat that gross shit all the time but if pregnant? Nope! They are worried that their kid will be born with webbed feet.
Maybe they meant a dropper, for adults they put a needle in their hand vein and for children - in their head. Saw it a couple of times.
bayuvar139:
Yes, recently saw this at a children's clinic... about a dozen or so small children playing outside with their IVs in their heads or hands.
And here's another one. I put it in both baskets...customary and stupid. You go out with your family, friends..whatever. You get there and immediately commence eating and drinking as if there's a time limit. And then, suddenly, without any warning at all whatsoever, everyone gets up and leaves. Usually within a couple of hours and, in the case of the men, who have been skoffing baijiu like a lunatic, pissed out of their brain. If everyone is lucky they get outside before they start calling for Roooootthh....
And, hell's bells....it's only 2.30 in the afternoon. WTF!!
Custom, yes. Stupid, DEFINITELY!!!
Causing physical harm to a child due to dark ages mindset. Can only be stupidity.
Well aspirin is bad for your liver right? What ever happened to good ol fashioned blood letting?
Bring back the leeches!
DrMonkey:
Aspirin *in large quantity* can indeed damage liver. It also reduce blood platelets concentration, so hemophilic and women in their periods, beware. Paracetamol fixes most of the aspirin problems ^^ The TCM equivalent to aspirin is willow bark. Same active molecule :p
wuweizea:
Yep. The doctors should say "Take two leeches and call me in the morning."
Not a cure as such but i've been told that eating walnuts makes you smarter. Makes sense to me, I mean, they look just like brains, they're bound to make you smarter, right?
Scandinavian:
yeah, and eating panda penises to cure erectile dysfunction makes you a dick. the logic is flawless
The complete refusal to answer a simple yes/no question with either.
The benefit of the doubt should always be given for a lack of understanding, given that virtually nobody in China speaks or understands English.
However, when the question is understood (miraculously), a sought after yes or no answer will still not be forthcoming.
This comes under culture.
But blaming culture is a convenient method of covering up stupidity.
