When I was little, I used to be very sickly and my mother would undergo the remedy of coining, but the literal translation of the Vietnamese phrase is "scratching wind." Anyway, after rubbing Eagle brand medicated oil on my back, my mother would take a silver-looking coin (well, it looked more like a button) and she'd scratch my back with it. She'd do that until my back was red and purple in the areas she scratched/carved at.

Oh man, I used to cry when she first started doing that, but since I got sick so much, I eventually got used to it and it stopped hurting me. But fortunately I've gotten healthier since high school, so I've only had her do it once to me. Oh man it hurt so bad! I don't remember it hurting that much when she did it.

The strange thing is, it actually helps!

Does anyone else know what I mean? I think the Chinese do it too, but with a spoon. Actually, the last time my mother did that to my back, she used a spoon. My friend's mother uses a lemon. lol that sounds like it stings.

Oh, and for those who don't know what I'm talking about, what kind of traditional remedies do you guys have?

When I got bruised really badly, my mom or grandmas would take a hard boiled egg and insert a quarter/silver-thing into the center. Then, they would wrap it in a cloth and rub it on the bruise. After the treatment, they would remove the silver thing and it would be all black.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! My mother gets it all the time because she's get sick sick and needs to get better asap. She recently makes me do it for her and I'm like how the f**k does this make it better for you!?

Yeah we usually use a glass soup spoon, but we only have plastic ones :/ Basically scratch till its like super red and it looks like a skeleton hahah.

It's kind of scary when I do it, because she always tells me I don't do it hard enough. But i just don't like hurting anyone though she says i'm helping her. But its great for days when i'm pissed at her, then she's like " Yeah! put that anger out on me!"

We call it "gwat sa" in Chinese(Cantonese). Which means.. uh I think "carving sand" o_o

Nothing too abnormal. Usually when babies are teething in my family, it's brandy on the gums. People in my family are pretty tough so the doctor is always the last resort. A few years ago, my dad was kicked in the stomach by a cow and it broke quite a few of his ribs and he finally decided after a week of not being able to feed himself (he couldn't lift his arms) that it MIGHT be worth it to see a doc.

I've never heard of those Vietnamese or Chinese methods, haha. Asians have such weird remedies sometimes. But Flaunted, yeah, "gwat sa" means to carve/scratch sand.

Yea I had a boiled egg with the silver thing wrapped in the cloth rolled over my head when I would have a fever. Of course I haven't had this done for me in so long.. Mostly when I was in elementary school.

Also, for acne, my boyfriend would roll a boiled egg over his whole face and it removed some crap from his pores. The egg wouldn't be perfectly smoother anymotre -- it would have these dots on it, kind of like really light grey or something. It was really weird.

lol scratching sand? So that's the chinese version. I think I've heard of that phrase before - sounds familiar. My mom speaks Cantonese so yea.

I think my mom did that to me once but with a spoon, it was very awkward. Well, for clearing sinuses, my dad fills a container with hot water and puts it over the heater when we sleep. It really works.

i've never had that happen to me before..but i was a healthy kid ;]

when my dad is sick, he boils water in a pot and puts in a whole bunch of herbs and stuff, and then when it's really hot, he sticks it under a blanket, sits under the blanket too and sweats the sickness off..or something. he's the only one that does that in the family. i think it smells really bad

Yea my parents would do that, but I never had to do that. If they were really sick, They'd also bath in that water too, like wash their body with it, then wash it off right after. But the smell remains. Apparently it worked for them.

It sounds like a bunch of voodoo is going on here.

Question: Do you think acupuncture is voodoo?

^ I have no idea, but i did hear it was relaxing. What does it do?