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Chicken-Blood Therapy

Historical and Premodern Treatment Practice

Chicken blood therapy was a form of pseudo medical therapy popular in China during the Cultural Revolution, practiced mainly by village doctors in the 1960s. It was banned for official use by the Chinese government in July 1965, though the expression to inject chicken blood remains in the modern Chinese lexicon as a metaphor for getting pumped up.

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