30 Crazy Fact About China That Shocks The World

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24. Walnut in one eye, ignited dry moxa leaves in one ear. Result? Cured facial paralysis (apparently)!

 

Walnut in one eye

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Sure traditional Chinese treatments are famous world over for their allegedly high efficacy factors, but existence of cures as bizarre and seemingly dangerous as this one is hard to digest. What’s more, apparently the practitioners of traditional Chinese medicines use ingredients as weird as tiger’s paws, crocodile‘s jaws and bear’s testicles in the medicinal preparations. And allegedly it is because they believe, the more endangered a species is, the more healing properties it will possess.

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