Traditional Chinese medicine proponent
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XU Pushan (1835-1910) is celebrated as a traditional Chinese doctor adept at treating fractures and injuries.
Born in Jiuting Town in Songjiang District, the young Xu learned martial arts from a monk in Qingpu. By 1845, the boy was winning kung fu contests.
At the age of 20, he opened his own martial arts school. Since fractures and injuries were common from kung fu practice, he began studying treatments. He concocted ointments and pills for injured students.
In 1865, he set up a clinic in his home to treat bone fractures, dislocations and other injuries.
Xu’s treatment heavily focused on hand skills, supplemented by ointments. For a hand bone fracture, for example, he would reset the bone, cover it with ointment and then bandage it firmly.
Xu treated shoulder dislocations by pulling and stretching. Patients were required to raise their arms as high as they could for the first two days while Xu worked with his hands to relieve the pain.
For soft tissue injuries, massage, acupuncture and sometimes herbal pills Xu invented were said to be very effective.
The doctor passed his medical skills down to his son, and the techniques have survived four generations.
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