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Given the long and controversial history of bloodletting [0], this might do more harm then good. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting https://en.wik
by guyomes 3y ago
Given the long and controversial history of bloodletting [0], this might do more harm then good.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting
- rcme 3y agoAny usage prior to the widespread adoption of the scientific method is largely irrelevant.
- jjeaff 3y agoYou certainly shouldn't donate blood in unsanitary conditions and while you are ill and weakened from some other sickness. Which is the conditions under which bloodletting usually occured in the past.
- asdfman123 3y agoI’m not saying people should do it, of course. Just wondering if there’s at least a grain of truth in it.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI'm sure there's a grain of truth to it, else it wouldn't have been pushed as a treatment; likewise, there's a grain of truth in using ivermectin to treat the 'rona (in that it increases the survival chance of people who also have intestinal worms, see https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-wanted https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...)