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Is there any reason why one couldn’t simply have blood as a kind of treatment? I’d certainly be happy to have blood drawn if it meant lowering blood toxicity I

• slt2021 4y ago
  religious Muslims have treatment that is exactly that - blood drawing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupping_therapy#Wet_cupping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupping_therapy#Wet_cupping
• toast0 4y ago
  Therapeutic phlebotomy, basically bloodletting, is a common treatment for hemochromatosis, iron overload. It would make sense as a treatment if you've got too much of a substance in your system, that substance accumulates in your blood, and you're otherwise healthy enough to tolerate the loss of blood periodically. Depending on the substance, there may be other means that are more effective, or less invasive, of course; and if it's an urgent need to reduce the substance, bloodletting would likely be too slow.
  • wrycoder 4y ago
    Or you could take small dose aspirin and just bleed internally. Same result, fewer heart attacks.