I went to these markets where the majority of stalls are selling products with innate medicinal or health giving benefits. An incredible array of stuff. You’ve got your usual mammoth selection of various ginseng roots, mushrooms harder than concrete and as big as grapefruits, then there’s bark and twigs and branches of every conceivable kind for as long as you can walk.
A few days later I went to see a ‘Hanisa’ (Oriental Doctor) and in assessing me, he made me put my thumb and third finger together and then he tried to pull them apart. When he put a massive chunk of Korean ginseng in the other hand for my to firmly grasp, he simply couldn’t do it. When he put some other medicinal artifact in my palm, he could pull apart my fingers with minimal effort.
