Comment by binsquare
1 month ago
In Chinese villages, I've seen them use fish skin, potato skin, various leaves, cooked birds nest, fish fin oil, and etc to treat open wounds instead of pure bandaging.
While it's not a new technique, it's fascinating for this area to be further explored.
In a way this feels less like inventing something new and more like rediscovering and formalizing old techniques with modern safety constraints
It's important in these cases to preserve the lineage of where they came from.
There's a tendency to start calling them 'western medicine' and crediting it to the person who formalized it in the west rather than the source culture where it has existed for centuries.
The conversation is bit 2010, but the point still stands.