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Herbal Bath Therapy Revives Boy in Coma
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2001-12-18
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| After being soaked in a herbal medicine mixture for three days, a 12-year-old traffic accident victim who had been in a coma for over 40 days has recovered consciousness. On August 12 this year, Yang Xiaodi,of Wuming County in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, received seriously head injuries in a car accident. He was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment, but fell into a coma. He had also suffered a fracture left thighbone and fractured ribs. After over a month of Western medicine therapy failed to revive him, Yang's parents began to resort to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) at the end of September. Three days after Yang was transferred to the TCM department of the Guangxi People's Hospital he received medicated bath therapy. He was immersed in a bathtub filled with a mixture of 20 varieties of decocted medicinal herbs, at a temperature of 38 to 40 degress Celsius. Each day, he was put in the bathtub for 30 to 40 minutes, said Tang Zhimin, the doctor in charge of the boy's TCM therapy. After three days of treatment, the boy began to regain consciousness, and could move his limbs slightly. |
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