"synopsis of the golden chamber", volume 23, "miscellaneous therapeutic prescriptions" records that if you hang yourself and die, you will recover from the cold. It's a little difficult at dusk. I'm afraid it will be full of yin, so it is. But in summer, short nights and hot days should still be treatable. If the clouds are warmer, you can live another day. They were slowly untied, not allowed to cut the rope up and down, and lay down.

A person puts his feet on his shoulders and holds his hair with his little hands. Never string it vertically. One person presses his hand on his chest, while the other rubs his arm and calf to bend and stretch. If it is stiff, he bends it gradually and presses his abdomen. So after a while, the breath came out of his mouth and his breathing eyes opened.

However, there is no need to work hard to induce pressure. It is necessary to make Guixin decoction and porridge clear and contain them, so that the throat will gradually swallow, but after a pause, both of them can use pipes to blow their ears, so that everyone can live. Treat them equally. This paragraph tells in great detail the rescue process of the hanged person. In the process of first aid, the use of blowing first aid has been clearly recorded: for example, "let two people blow their ears with pipes."

According to modern medical evidence, it is obviously impossible to treat asphyxiated patients simply by ear blowing, but at least it shows that by the Eastern Han Dynasty, ancient emergency medicine in China had realized that artificial ear blowing could be used to treat asphyxiated patients and put it into practice.

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There are still many differences between artificial respiration in ancient Chinese medicine and artificial respiration in modern medicine. The most obvious thing is that many artificial respiration in ancient Chinese medicine is blown through the ears, and tools such as reed pipes or onion pipes are generally used.

Instead of direct mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-mouth blowing therapy, we believe that it is not that the ancients did not know about oral and nasal first aid. For example, in the Puji Fang written by Zhu _ in the Ming Dynasty, it was clearly recorded that "two nostrils are plugged and the mouth is taken to the pharynx with a reed pipe, which makes people hiss", which is completely consistent with the current artificial respiration.

The widespread use of "ear blowing" first aid shows that the ancients have realized the fact that ears and respiratory tract are connected. Modern medical anatomy shows that the human respiratory tract is connected with the middle ear through the eustachian tube, but the ancient people's understanding of human anatomy is limited after all. They don't know that the external ear and the middle ear are not connected because of the eardrum.

That is to say, if you try to inflate your lungs by blowing through your ears and then resume spontaneous breathing, it seems impossible from the perspective of modern medicine, because the direct consequence of doing so may be that the eardrum is injured first.

The success of ear-blowing first aid may not really be that the patient recovered his spontaneous breathing ability through ear-blowing, but more likely that the abnormal sound in the ear stimulated the patient's peripheral nerves, thus awakening the patient, that is to say, the effect of ear-blowing is actually the same as that of external stimuli such as pulling hair and baking umbilical cord.

In addition to these, the biggest reason is the great influence of feudal laws such as "men and women are different" and "men and women are not close"! In feudal society, men are always considered to be superior to women. In this social background, it is obvious that most women hang themselves or drown. When giving first aid to women who hang themselves or drown, they are limited by the old adage that men and women are different.

Mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-mouth first aid is obviously difficult to implement, which is the second best. Instead, it is ear-blowing first aid, and mouth-to-mouth treatment is rarely used. Moreover, ear blowing and mouth and nose are simple and complicated, and both reed pipes and onion pipes are used.

It can be seen that the medical practice of applying artificial respiration to first aid has appeared in China since the Eastern Han Dynasty, and a more scientific and systematic medical theory has been formed. The earliest record of artificial respiration applied to human first aid in foreign countries appeared at the end of 19, which was about 1600 years later than that in China.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-synopsis of the golden chamber

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