The use of witch doctors "one family of witch doctors and two magical medicines" is a very regional feature of folk medicine under the border wall of the Miao border. Especially in the Miao area, it has been widely used in the past and is now recognized by the society.

During the Republic of China, there were many masters of witchcraft and medicine, such as Ma Laomiao from Machong in Fenghuang County, Wu Laorou from Sangongqiao Tea Mountain, Tan Mingqing from Gaotong, Wu Laoxiao from Liangtou Sheep, Long Laoer from Dijiasi in Songtao County,

Shi Guangjin of Yongsui Hall is the master of Miao medicine and the successor of witch doctors. In the process of practicing medicine, witchcraft and medicine are used simultaneously. They complement each other and complement each other's advantages. Wu Laorou, the master of surgery, founded "Circle Skin"

"Fixation method", "Throwing pier method", "Suspension method", "County ladder moving stool method" and other scientific methods to treat fractures and dislocations. At the same time, he is also proficient in "blood-breaking water", "Tie Niu water" and "Guanyin water".

The application of it can relieve the patient's pain and improve the therapeutic effect. He treats patients with comminuted fractures caused by being crushed by heavy objects. He first sprays a sip of water to reduce swelling, relieve pain and reduce fever. The medicine can be cured in seven days. It can be said that the two-headed sheep Wu Laoxiao has a miraculous effect on

He has his own unique features for women with difficult labor. He created the "birth-promoting prescription" and also used the "birth-promoting secret" to relieve maternal pain and achieve a smooth delivery. The famous doctor Tan Mingqing was born as a scholar. He practiced medicine while teaching at the age of 18. He was familiar with medical classics and was proficient in Qihuang.

Mastering the principles of syndrome differentiation and treatment, he combined witchcraft and shamanism appropriately in the treatment of gynecology, pediatrics, and internal medicine, and the effect was very good. He was also proficient in transforming water, and often practiced medicine in Fenghuang, Tongren, Songtao and other places. In the 1970s, syndrome differentiation materialism was not used.

Ou Zhian, the author of "The Preliminary Examination of Miao Medicine in Western Hunan", is very good at curing sores. After many clinical trials, he had to admit that the cured hoop therapy is very effective. All the patients he treated recovered in time, and the Miao doctor got his wish.

The combination of witchcraft and medicine was used to treat knife and gunshot wounds with immediate and miraculous results. It was praised by Xiong Xiling, the Prime Minister of the early Republic of China: "A bullet can't stop itself, it all depends on the Miao medicine Hua Tuo." Even today, when Western medicine is quite advanced, people still

There is a saying that western medicine is not as good as herbal medicine in treating bruises and injuries. Witch doctors are often used in pediatrics, surgery and boils and tumors.

Children are frightened due to sudden external stimulation. They have nightmares at night, cry for a long time at night, lose appetite, and become increasingly thin. They are commonly known as "scared". The treatment period of Western medicine is long and expensive. The treatment by witch doctors is simple and fast, and only requires paper money.

2 taels, three sticks of incense. During the treatment, the witch doctor presses the left and right thumbs of the child's forehead and chants something. After chanting, he drinks the child's yintang three times with his mouth, spits it out three times, and finally burns paper and incense. After three days, the patient can be cured.

Place a cooked egg and a small piece of silver jewelry on the underwear that the frightened child has just worn, cover it with a bowl, and place it at the foot of the bed. The next day, if the silver jewelry turns black after removing the bowl, it means that it has been effective.

It can be cured in a few days. This method is commonly known as: "Covering" (called Erbu Ben in Miao language). In some places, a bowl of rice is wrapped in a handkerchief, and it is turned around the child's head several times, shaking it constantly, and chanting in the mouth.

Then open the bag and determine where the frightened child is based on the rising and falling rice. According to the pointed direction, the parents burn paper money at night, pour water and rice to reward ghosts, pray to avoid disasters, and use stove smoke to make crosses on the child's forehead.

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When blowing the nebula and moving the tops of the wheat awns, the sand and dust fly into the eyes. If they cannot be removed, they will turn into "flowers". The pain will be unbearable and the tears will continue. If you encounter this situation, you can ask the witch doctor to blow or move it.

What is healing by blowing? When the sun is about to set, the patient faces the west, the witch doctor faces the patient, opens the affected eye, and says: "Look up to the sky, the master is in front of you, look down to the ground, the master is beside you, blow to the sky,

After blowing it down to the ground, the sun sets and the shadows fall, and when the sun goes away, the shadows go away." After reciting this, the patient spits three times and the shadows begin to subside the next day, the pain is relieved, and the person recovers in three days. What does it mean to remove the shadows? Patients can ask to be good at this.

If the eye is affected, observe the diseased eye, move the corresponding objects in the house according to the location of the nebula in the eye, and sweep it three times with a broom. If the nebula occurs in the middle and above the eye, remove the objects hanging from the floor of the hall. If the nebula is below, move it away.

If you move the objects dropped on the floor correctly, you can recover within three days.

Curses and hoops are commonly used in the folk treatment of boils and tumours. Especially at the beginning of the disease, if you can find it in time and ask a witch doctor to cast a hoop, the lesions will disappear quickly without medication. If the boil enters the suppurative stage, medication is also required.

Supplemented by curse and hoop therapy, it will not be allowed to spread, and the thickening can be eliminated promptly. Boils are commonly known as blisters among the people. The mantra used by witch doctors is called the hoop blister curse, which says:

The east turned into Qingling Palace, and the south turned into water and burned mountains. If you can't leave, Taishang Laojun will take action to stop them. The big and small golden knives will break into two unbreakable male souls and female souls. Three souls and seven souls, the true soul.

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When breaking the poison of nameless swelling, copper sores and iron blisters, thirty-two big sores and seventy-two small blisters, disciples put down the iron hoop, do not hoop the male soul and female soul. When hooping the nameless swollen poison, the hot area should be hooped to cool down, and the swelling should be

When the hoop disappeared, the disciple put down the copper shears and the iron shears, and used them to cut wood sores and iron blisters.

Once you cut it, it will be scattered. If you cut it twice, it will disappear. Then put the copper and iron nails. If you don’t nail the male soul, female soul, three souls and seven souls, your true soul should be nailed. You have nameless swollen poison, copper blisters, iron blisters, thirty-two bullae, seventy-two.

Don't be alarmed or move when nailing a small blister. Don't move away or move the nail. The hot spot will cool down, the swelling will subside, and the sore spot will disappear. The blisters will be cured as soon as you take them. They will be cured if you take them two times. They will be cured by the third treatments.

Eliminate the situation where I, the Supreme Lord, rush to recite the law like a law, spit three times in a row, put down the hoop-shaped hand, and burn paper incense. Soon the pus will get worse. If it does not heal, the witch doctor can also "operate" to drain the pus.

"Operation" does not mean "operation" in the general sense. If a blister occurs on the instep, place the foot flat on the ground. The witch doctor will use a blade called a knife to draw a pattern of the foot on the ground to determine the exact location of the blister on the picture.

Remove the foot, and the witch doctor recites the blister curse on the pattern. After reciting the pattern on the foot, the next day there will be thick boils and blisters from the mouth. The same method is used to "operate" on other parts of the body.

"Transforming water" is a way for witch doctors to turn clear water into divine water by chanting incantations according to the needs of treatment. It has the therapeutic function of medicine, and it is very effective. It is simple and fast. If you are injured and bleeding, you can use "stop bleeding water", "Guanyin water", etc.

If a foreign object stuck in the throat cannot be swallowed or spit out, drink "Cormorant Water" and it will dissolve. "Snow Mountain Water" is commonly used for fire and burn injuries, and "Tie Niu Water" is used to reduce fractures and dislocations, according to Miao doctors.

Research expert Ou Zhi'an believes that it can be divided into two categories after years of discussion and research, one is hard kung fu and the other is soft kung fu, which is equivalent to hard qigong and soft qigong. Hard kung fu is mostly used in orthopedics, and soft kung fu is mostly used in general surgery.

"Jie Nai Shu" therapy "Jie Nai Shu" is translated into Chinese as "Cheren Shu". Ou Zhi'an said in "Xiangxi Miao Medicine Preliminary Examination" that witch doctors and wizards use the "Jie Nai Shu" method to seduce people's souls to wander around.

It allows people to obtain the dream state of "like ascending to the fairy world and returning home together", which can relieve people's pain, eliminate pain and troubles, and achieve the purpose of treatment. He believes that "Jie Nai Shu" was incomprehensible and unexplainable in the past when science was backward.
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