One of the earlier books by Motobu Choki: Okinawan Kenpo - Karate Jutsu: Kumite (tr. Eric Shahan), has a section on "Essential knowledge about medical ttreatment", presumably on the grounds that once you have consensually beaten each other up, you need to know how to take care of the aftermath ☺. Here is one of my favourites, paraphrased somewhat:
Goat Soup - a treatment for Uchi-chi
(Uchi-chi being bruises)
4 ro 5 slices of Goat meat are required, 2.5 to 3kg, to be soaked in the juice of Nine Year Mother oranges (Kunenbo), There needs to be enough juice to completely immerse the Goat meat.This needs to be boiled until the liquid has been reduced by half, then remove from the heat.
You must then drink the juice and eat the meat for the next three days to reduce the bruising.
Bone-in-chicken Soup
In areas where Goat meat cannot be obtained, 2.5 to 4kg of Bone-in-chicken can be used, along with a cup of ginger in vinegar. Again this needs to be boiled until the liquid has been reduced by half. If again this is eaten for three days, a distinct improvement should be noticed.
The next bit gave me a bit of a laugh:
"You should also note that this samr chicken meat boiled in vinegar and ginger can be used to treat inflammation from getting kicked in the balls. If eaten for two to three days in a row you will see distinct improvement" 😂😂😂😂
Schoolboy humour I know, but it made me laugh ☺☺
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