Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t3.47

v1.c6.s2.t3.47

The gold needle couching originated from ancient India, and was recorded in *Medical Secrets from the Royal Library* written by Wang Tao in the Tang Dynasty but it had been lost in China and India for a long time. Since 1960, Tang Youzhi restored to use the gold needle couching successfully and solved the problem of the early complication such as glaucoma after operative incision on pars plana and couching clinically. In 1966, the couching was recognised by Ministry of Health and was promoted as the first scientific research achievement of traditional Chinese medicine which was verified by Chinese and western medical experts scientifically. Tang Youzhi conducted the golden needle couching for important domestic and foreign political members such as Mao Zedong, Prince Penm Nouth of Cambodia, Kim II Sung of North Korea, Wahid of Indonesia etc and made them recover their eyesight.