The 95-year-old bonesetter

The 95-year-old bonesetter: in Muğla, a 95-year-old bonesetter interviewed by researchers held the set bone in place with a mixture of bitter vetch seed, egg yolk and grated soap. In western Anatolia, this kind of skill for a single complaint, such as binding fractures or treating erysipelas, is also called an “ocak”, and it is usually passed down from parents.

Source: Gisho Honda, Erdem Yeşilada, Mamoru Tabata, Ekrem Sezik ve ark., “Traditional medicine in Turkey VI. Folk medicine in West Anatolia”, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 53, 1996 (Honda et al., J Ethnopharmacol, 1996). This is a folk record, not a treatment recommendation.