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Tom left the silk workshop and followed Digby until he reached a strange, small building. It was filled with wooden drawers, pots and bundles of herbs in different shapes and sizes. In the corner of the room, he saw a man having needles put into his body!
Suddenly, Digby sprang out from behind some shelves and raced away.
During the Ming dynasty, it was believed that people became ill if there was an imbalance in their bodies. To become well again, they went to visit a doctor or a medicine maker called an to restore their balance.
Doctors also used a treatment called . .
This was where doctors put needles in special parts of the patient’s
body to ease pain and cure illnesses. It is still used today!
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