Mongolian medicine and its healers

They practice medicine the way their ancestors have always done, with methods that have steadfastly withstood the test of time and still command a strong following. Wang Kaihao tells us more from Tongliao in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

Xu Jinfeng was visiting her son in northeastern China, having traveled from her native Zhejiang province, when the unexpected happened. She fractured her left knee. Xu was resigned to spending the Spring Festival in a strange hospital far from home and was not looking forward to what she believed would be a long and painful recuperation.

Fortunately, she was admitted to a specialist orthopedic hospital in Horqin Left Wing Rear Banner of Tongliao, an eastern city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.