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Salty Tap Water
My mom likes to travel to Thailand. All the food, people and beaches are lovely there except she does not like the drinking water there. Every time, she needs to buy the bottled water instead of getting the drinking water directly from the kitchen faucet. Sanitation and hygiene have improved in the past 20 years…
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Healing burn with Soy Sauce?
There are various folk remedies circulating, but if used in a misunderstanding, the consequences can be serious. My mom traveled to a place called Liaoning in China. She saw a disabled young boy and his name is Kong. This is the story about his disabled hand. When Kong was a baby boy, he was usually…
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Miraculous effects of boiled egg
When bruises and swelling occur, should you apply hot or cold compresses immediately? According to folk secret recipe, when my mom travled in China, she was taught to boil boiled eggs and rub them on the affected area while they are hot, which can disperse the blood stasis and remove the swelling. Do boiled eggs…
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People who live in the shadow of sugar cane fields
I read a book called “Traveling with sugar” recently. Belize is a small island country in the Caribbean. They produce a lot of sugar. Unfortunately, the sugar does not only represent the product of refined sugar cane. It is also the abbreviation of “diabetes”, countless people were killed because of the sugar. The local people…
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Foot binding
In ancient China, women used to have a traditional custom called foot binding, which is also called foot binding or foot binding (Guangdong). People at that time believed that girls’ feet needed space to look good, so the locals would bind their feet with cloth. Eventually, it appeared “Three inches of golden lotus” means that…