Day 4 - The Forbidden City
This
morning I get up early and get a few photos of the hotel grounds before breakfast. After all, it is advertised as being spread
over 335,000 square metres of which 200,000 square metres are of gardens in the
traditional Chinese style
Roads
through the hotel grounds were wide enough for the bus to reach our building
Even
to the point where there was a roundabout
Tongrentang – Traditional Chinese Medicine
Before
we arrive at the Forbidden City we have an appointment with the doctors at the
centre for traditional Chinese medicine, or T C M.
It's
the same people who tended to the emperor way back, and scored some land to
build a facility to bring that medicine to the people.
The
prices they charge, there is no way 99 per cent of the population could afford
it, only us gullible westerners. Still,
it looks might work so I joined the list of gullible people to give it a go.
What
was the diagnosis? Heart, liver,
apparently the same as everyone else, but he did mention thyroid which is not a common problem, so it looks like there might be a grain of truth to it to his
medical wisdom.
We
shall see.
What
worries me is that all the pillboxes look the same, and as the writing is in Chinese
there's no way of telling if they are or not.
There
was a chart on the wall that accompanied the introduction to Chinese Medicine
given by a Professor, or a Doctor, I was not sure which, who told us how
everything was linked in groups, as shown above, what ailments were related,
and how treatments were formulated.
I
was glad, in the end, my problems were only related to the Heart and the liver,
mostly because of my type of arthritis.
So
much for T C M
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