- Eye-watering clip shows man running tiny metal rod around patient’s eye socket
- Bizarre practice is surprisingly common in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu
- Service available for just five Indian Rupees – a measly eight cents
This video is not for the squeamish.
An eye-watering clip shows the South Indian practice of eyeball ‘cleaning’ in which a healer runs a tiny metal rod around his patient’s eye in order to remove clumps of dirt.
The cringe-inducing video shows a woman lying on a platform as a healer inserts safety pins into her eyes, rolling them around her sockets.
The bizarre practice won’t appeal to everyone. But it is surprisingly common in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
The healer uses what appears to be a bent paperclip scraping it swiftly from side to side across the soft surface of the women’s right eye.
Moments later her pulls a lump of dirt from behind the woman’s first eyeball – much to her delight.
Then he moves on to her left. It truly is three minutes of uncomfortable footage.
An eye-watering clip shows the South Indian practice of eyeball ‘cleaning’ in which a healer runs a tiny metal rod around his patient’s eye in order to remove clumps of dirt
In some area of the South Asian country the service is available for an incredibly cheap five Indian Rupees – a measly eight cents – and has been practiced for centuries
But the woman in question seems to enjoy the procedure, grinning throughout.
In some areas of the South Asian country the service is available for an incredibly cheap five Indian Rupees – a measly eight cents – and has been practiced for centuries.
It’s not only Indians who enjoy this skin-crawling experience. Barbers in China’s Sichuan Province use similar methods to clean customer’s eyeballs.
It’s all part of the service barbers give in some areas of Sichuan.
An old Chinese saying suggests cleaning the eyes makes the beauty of life more visible.
And some people are prepared to take risks to make sure they don’t miss a thing.