The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-20
CHINESE CURLS.
Mysterious Remedies Used by Moon
Eyed Doctors.

LIZ. OHuH Oee VINO, aOulueSo puySAOioh
of note in his own country, and who has
practiced his craft in the United States,
was a visitor to the Omaha Bee building
a few days ago, and entertained the Buzz
ger with a description of the practice OF
his profession among his countrymen'
He said:-
1.-THE medicines used in China are con
cocted from gums, herbs, roots, and such
condiments US mustard. pepper, ginger,
etc. We also use deer horns, the gall of
bears and other animals, dried snakes
and portions of other animals, the efft-
cheney of which American physicians
cannot under s5and. We cannot charge a
poor man q "copper", but the rich men pay
q physician very literally. according to
the amount of benefit derived from the
medicine. BY feeling the pulse q Chi
nese physician can tell the source of the
trouble. For instance, | place three I'm
gers on the pulse of the right wrist, and
from the pulsation tell if the seat of COM
plant is the heart, omac or lungs. l
place three fingers on the pulse OF the
left wrist and can tell il the trouble is in
the liver, kidneys OF spleen. American
doctors don't understand that
Suppose q mar is troubled with dys-
pepsia or stomach disorder, then L give
him some deer-horn. Deer-horn is a very
expensive medicine. The deer is shot
only in Thibet and is very hard to get.
He must be killed SO that the blood ruSheS
to the horns, which are cut off immedi-
ately. They are then dried n after
ward powdered. Good horns are worth
$50 each. Bears gall is also good for
stomach troubles.
Now, when q mar gets delirious he
must be treated by the fire cure. This
fire cure is only known to a few OF the
most famous physicians in China and is
handed down to their sons, who impart it
to their sons, under oath. 1t is the most
effective mode of curing certain diseases,
but must be used Immediately to have
any effect. l always carry the outfit
with me. If a man drops in the street
from fits, or anything of that sort, he
might die before medicine could be given
TO him, but | Immediately administer the
fire cure Inc he will get well. If q man
is delirious and the doctor fails to cure
him the disease will always go to the
doctor, hence we must be very careful.
"The fire cure cannot be understood by
Americans. Suppose a man is bleeding at
the nose and it cannot be stopped. If the
blood comes from the right nostril | place
a small pill OF medicine on his left thumb
nail and set fire to it. When it burns into
the flesh he will be cured. If the blood
COMES from the left nostril, vice versa.
Ii from both nostrils, l burn the medicine
ON both thumb-nails. This medicine is a
secret, and | prepare it myself. Ii a
pellet is burned on the top of the hand you
can never have any more children. Iburn
or the knees, Oh the stomach, and on the
palm of the hand, which are sure cures
for other diseases.
eff a man cuts an artery and is bleeding
to death. an application of deer-horn pow
der on the cut will stop the flow of hood
Immediately. When a maj gets a fish or
chicken bone in his throat | write certain
things on a paper, pass my hand over it,
and say certain mysterious words.
The paper is then placed in a cup of
water, which the patient drinks, and the
obstruction is at once removed. When a
man has any kind of a swelling, for
instance, on his leg, / put some medicine
on the swelling, then make four marks
in the air at each corner of the swelling
and one more above it, then bind it up
and next morning the swelling is gone.
''Of course / could tell you lots more
about our methods of curing diseases, but
l think you already have q fair idea of
how we do it. 1t is nothing like the
American way, but l think we are more
| successful than you are.
"Have you ever noticed that you never
see a crippled Chinaman? You never see
one with but one arm-you never see one
on crutches. I'll tell you why that Is.
Supposinga Chinaman has his leg crushed
between the knee and ankle. We do not
cut off the leg at the knee-we lay open
the flesh and cut off the crushed zone.
Then we get q bone, from a dogs leg for
instance, measure it exactly, and insert
the new bone and sew up the wound 1t
nearly always heals and the man saves
his leg. Surprising he has his forehead
crushed III. We saw out the crushed por-
ton, take a skull from some dead man
and trepan it with a portion OF the old
skull, sew up the skin, and he is all right.
He may be a little crazy afterward, but
he is ali right"