Mongolian Medicine
01 · Historical Records
In the 1970s, Kezuo Houqi (Horqin Left Rear Banner), as the birthplace of Horqin Mongolian bone-setting, established a Mongolian bone-setting hospital, so that the Mongolian bone-setting technique moved from the folk sphere into a formal hospital. However, compared with other disciplines, Mongolian bone-setting had still not become widespread: there were fewer than one hundred practitioners, and inheritors were scarce. The specific steps are: 1. appropriate reduction measures are adopted according to the different fractures of each part of the body; 2. dried hide of cattle or horses is used as a fixation device (it has now evolved into specially made wooden splints) to perform external fixation; 3. alcohol is sprayed on the injured area and it is massaged (in general, the spraying can be divided into two steps, namely spraying alcohol before manual reduction, and spraying alcohol plus massage after fixation); 4. functional exercise of the injured limb is carried out at an appropriate time; 5. appropriate Mongolian medicine is used according to the condition.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
Mongolian bone-setting is an empirical summary of the Mongolian people's long struggle against disease, among which the Horqin technique is particularly outstanding. Mongolian traditional bone-setting originated among the people: in the Horqin region, Mongolian bone-setting was preserved and transmitted in the form of shamanic medicine, forming the distinctive Horqin Mongolian bone-setting technique. The content of Mongolian bone-setting: in the treatment of limb fractures, a comprehensive treatment method is adopted comprising manual reduction, external fixation, spraying alcohol and massage, taking Mongolian medicine, and functional exercise. Mongolian bone-setting has the advantages of easy operation, safety, little suffering for the patient (freeing them from the ordeal of surgery), a short course of treatment, fast healing, good functional recovery, and no sequelae; treatment is not limited by environmental conditions, and the technique has always been trusted by the people.
Manual reduction
Reduction comes first, with the measure chosen to suit the site and the fracture.
Fixation with hide
Dried cow or horse hide served as the fixature before it became purpose-made wooden splints.
Wine rubbing
Wine is applied once before reduction and again after fixation—a practice distinctive to this school.
Functional exercise
Exercise is begun at the proper time, completing a method that avoids surgery, shortens the course and leaves no lasting impairment.
Prescribing Mongolian medicine
The last of the five steps, prescribing the appropriate drug to the case, kept from the shamanic practice in which the bone-setting was preserved.
The Borjigin bone-setting clinic
The practitioner founded a clinic and hospital named for the Borjigin family, systematizing a method first preserved by shamans.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
Mongolian bone-setting originated among the people: in the Horqin region, Mongolian bone-setting was preserved and transmitted in the form of shamanic medicine, forming the distinctive Horqin Mongolian bone-setting technique. In the 1970s, Kezuo Houqi (Horqin Left Rear Banner), as the birthplace of Horqin Mongolian bone-setting, established a Mongolian bone-setting hospital, so that the Mongolian bone-setting technique moved from the folk sphere into a formal hospital. However, compared with other disciplines, Mongolian bone-setting had still not become widespread: there were fewer than one hundred practitioners, and inheritors were scarce.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
Bao Siqin (as recorded in the official file of the associated inheritor): Female, of Mongolian ethnicity, born in July 1952, from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. She is a chief physician. She founded the Borjigin (Bao family) bone-setting Mongolian medicine specialty clinic and specialty hospital, making the Mongolian traditional bone-setting technique systematic and standardized. She is a representative inheritor of Mongolian medicine (Mongolian traditional bone-setting), a national-level intangible cultural heritage item of the fifth batch. She has been honored as a lifetime achievement awardee in world traditional medicine by the World Traditional Medicine Congress and as a leading figure of Chinese traditional medicine by the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. Since taking up bone-setting work, she has led teams of more than fifty people in diagnosis and treatment, and her disciples include Bao Wendusu, Tuliguer, and Bai Xuefeng.
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:
- Baojinshan 04-1949
- Baosiqin 05-2960
- Wangbuhe 05-2961
- Hudalai
- Fuyulan
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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