Leung Choi Shung Bonesetter
In the past century and even earlier, when people in
East Guangdong talked about bone fractures and
bonesetting, they would soon mention Leung Choi
Shung and be full of praise. The 200-year old bonesetter
shop, and its founder Leung Choi Shung, were so
skilful in the bonesetting techniques that people said
Leung could attach chicken feet onto a duck.
Leung was especially renowned for curing knife and combat
wounds. Walking into the shop, the first reaction is the
pungent smell of herbal adhesive plaster medicine. It
was said that in the old days, the bonesetter masters
have to make such medicines at remote open grounds,
to avoid smells affecting the neighbours. Also, it was
said that there could not be women present while the
medicines were made, or else the medicines’ potency
would be lost.
The shop’s main officer-in-charge, Dr.
Leung Wing Sang, is busy every day attending to patients,
rubbing ointment and bandaging elbows, with
flawless skills. No wonder the shop always have patients
queuing to see the doctor.
