Last year(2008), a rattlesnake bit Amy and 30 minutes later she was in a hospital. There, she received 8 anti-venom shots. The medical bill of that incidence was so expensive — each shot cost her $6,000.00, not to mention the cost of hospitalization and the other fees. It sounds like it was an expensive rattle-bite CPR, wasn’t it?
And in July this year a snake bit Miki, but she was shaken with a panic and couldn’t figure out that it was a poisonous snake or not. Therefore, the doctors let her stayed in an emergency room for 12 hours without any treatments until they were sure that it was a rattlesnake. According to the patient, she received one anti-venom shot every 6 hours, and totally she had had 4 shots. Was is another kind of rattle-bite CPR?
Amy was my old patient, so two days after she was discharged from the hospital she came to see me, for her leg was still swollen and painful. Obviously, at least there was still some poison remained under the skin around the snakebite. I let the poison out of there with acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, and Qi-Gong massage, and then sent her home with 3 packages of Chinese herbs. When she came back three days later, most of the swelling and pain were gone.
On the other hand, after the rattlesnake bit Miki for a week, she was recommended to me. Her leg, from the ankle up to the knee, was swollen, hardened, bruised, very stiff, and painful. That’s why I treated her the same way as I did to Amy, except no Chinese herbs for her because she was taking other remedies from someone else.
I wonder why the doctors in the hospitals would not try to suck the venoms out of the wounds in the first place? In reality they could do it while they were giving Amy anti-venom shots. And, they could do it while they were figuring out what the snake was, which had attacked Miki. Don’t you think so?
For sure, you can use a blood-lancet to poke the wounds and try to force the venom out of the wound. It would reduce, minimize, or even clean up the poison in your body before you got in the hospital. This is a sort of “CPR” for snakebite. Would you do so?
Don’t forge, one ounce of prevention is worth one pound of cure, and one cure is worth one dozen kinds of treatments.
