Thai traditional medicine in recent years conquers incredible popularity. And personally, I'm not surprised at all. Because sometimes it is enough to try this or that means to become his adept.
For many centuries, monks and offacarious healers kept their miraculous recipes secretly, transmitting them from mouth to mouth. And only in modern history decided to finally share them with the whole world. Today they are available in Thailand everywhere. I admit honestly: in some shops sometimes you feel like in the laboratory of a crazy alchemist or in the shack of some witch. Some roots, mushrooms of various sizes, shapes and colors, carcasses of unprecedented animals, birds and insects ... And not so long ago on a large traditional fair, which is arranged by the walls of the largest in Phuket Temple Chalong, we also stumbled upon an amazing spectacle. Imagine - among the ranks with the most diverse mist, suddenly there is a poles in which he floats in the blood of someone's head with the remnants of the horns. What is it? We approached closer. Next to the counter, the flasks were brought with something with a bulk. The seller immediately said that in the jars - just what was the horns before. Miracle powder should be poured with water (or alcohol) and drink slowly for the benefit of yourself and its body. Which animal belonged to once these horns, I did not understand, and look at the head floating in the blood, it became somehow terrible. But for some reason I did not bother. Well him.
In one "head of health", the daughter found mushrooms that immediately reminded the fairy tales about Baba Yaga.
But this is what I trust exactly, it is all sort of "snake drugs." It is not by chance that, in the end, it is a snake that wore a bowl is considered a symbol of medicine. And besides, Thailand is traditionally considered the center of modern serpentic medicine. The miraculism of snake funds is tested on its own experience. When I once recalled very much, I put me on my feet ... Dried Cobrova bile. I understand that it sounds like some message from the Middle Ages, however, in Thailand in pharmacies, modern European drugs calmly get along (there is everything, contrary to laundry on the Internet) and such exotic powders, tincture, balms and ointments. And local residents also use those and other means. We try to keep up with them. Therefore, when our son picked up some kind of virus (nothing terrible - snot, cough and temperature), together with the usual all paracetamol, we were given including local tea "Mother". This, I tell you, such an amazing thing that it is worth telling about it more.
Continued ...
Read the previous history of Olga here, and where it all starts - here.