A haphazard chronicle of my inevitable misadventures during a year in Vietnam and points east.

p.s. I'll be pitifully grateful if you send me email during my exile: TravelerKaty@hotmail.com

October 2002 November 2002 December 2002 January 2003 February 2003 March 2003 April 2003 May 2003 June 2003 July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 February 2006 March 2006 May 2006

 
You'll all be happy to know that today as we wandered through the temple village we were unexpectedly invited in for tea with the local doctor. He practices Chinese traditional medicine and is a specialist in cancer treatment, for which his patients travel to this remote corner of Yunnan province from far and wide.

Along with the tea he provided us a taste of his personal health elixir, which contains 23 different herbs and a whole lot of alcohol. The good news is that in addition to helping us with our general health and well-being, he mentioned as an aside that it would probably work for SARS. So no need to worry about me - I've been innoculated. And if I drink much of the magic elixir, I'll be too drunk to care about SARS anyway. The corn whiskey factory was our next stop, so anything that wasn't killed by the doctor's herbal potion should be dead and buried after one swig of that godawful whiskey.

Copyright 2003 Katy Warren



posted by Katy at 6:56 AM