Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bloodletting was used for hundreds of years to help cure illness and restore health, and its popularity ...

Bloodletting — the practice of withdrawing blood from a person’s veins for therapeutic reasons — was common for thousands of years. In this Curiosities of Medical History feature, we look at ...

It’s a bizarre scene, if you’ve never seen a modern-day bloodletting. First, men wrap patients’ arms and legs with straps as tourniquets, to control the blood flow. Then they use razor ...

Partly based on the Greek philosophy of four humors — black bile, phlegm, yellow bile and blood — as the basis of emotions, temperament and health, bloodletting was believed to remedy disease ...

Bloodletting for a cold? X-rays to see if your shoes fit? Medicines, tests or procedures that can be useful in the right situation, yet dangerous if overused — it's been a recurring theme ...

Plus a flea jumped onto my knee yesterday. Perhaps it’s not surprising that the subject of bloodletting popped into my mind. Of course, many people know that in centuries past doctors and barber ...

It’s shortly after the docent flashes an intramuscular syringe from 1910 — but well before he discusses the bloodletting instruments and leeches — that the woman faints. In her defense ...

Residents of Jersey have been advised to undergo bloodletting therapy to reduce dangerously high levels of toxic "forever chemicals" in their bodies after decades of exposure to contaminated ...

Bloodletting therapy, practiced for centuries in TCM, involves releasing small amounts of blood from specific acupoints to alleviate heat, improve circulation, and release pathogenic factors ...