January 11, 2012
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WTFBBQSAUCE Eastern Medicine
I've been up since 5AM. By 7AM I was done with work and couldn't go back to sleep so I just stayed in bed and browsed online. If I didn't have work, I'd wake up around 11AM.
Anyhow, mom came in with a spoon and green oil and said she's feeling sick so I had to help her apply some Eastern medicine to make her feel better. UGhhh!! I've seen this one done before and it creeps me out. That and Chinese cupping. WTF!!! You have to rub the hot green oil (I THINK it's menthol) into the skin until it burns and then scrape designs on their back with a metal spoon until they turn raw and red. Supposedly it stimulates blood flow or lymphatic flow or magical chi or whatever the hell Eastern medicine says and heals you.
But WTF! I don't know anything scientific or medicine related beyond high school biology! What if I scrape the wrong design and the bad blood back flows or something?! AGHHH! Why is my mom trusting me with this?! And to top it off, I HATE HATE HATE inflicting any sort of physical pain onto anyone, especially myself. Even if it's beneficial to them, like ... waxing, pimple popping, or.... scraping their back! And my mom kept telling me to scrape harder. Ughhh!! Now there are big fat ugly red lines all over her back. Totally inaccurate I'm sure.
The central heating in the house just broke too so mom must be feeling terrible. I invited her to lay down and rest on my special heating bed, which she normally hates cuz she's always warm on her own. But to my surprise she laid down and is KOed! Also surprising because she usually has 1000x more energy than me.
Things are so weird when I wake up early. I'm never doing it again -____-
Comments (8)
wow super early. also if my mom requested that... i would feel the same and weirded out.
When I wake up early it's 3 PM. Of course, I go to work at 9 PM.
oooh, thats similar to the process of coining. cept, we use a coin and monkey balm. ive never heard of a spooning a design though. although that must be more artsy than the straight vertical and horizontal lines made by the coin. heh. either way, it puts sexy clothes out of commission for a good two or three weeks til the bruises fade, but i love the instant relief it gives me. i hope your mom feels better really soon!
nothing good ever happens to me when i wake up early hahaha. but my parents are big on chinese medicine and they do the same thing as above except with warm smooth stones, so it doesn't leave red marks. i actually kinda liked it :p
omg i hate that green oil T___T
Eek, it's not inflicting pain that bothers me. It's the smell. Eastern medicine isn't ever nose friendly.
My mom does the same. Says it helps when she's feeling sick. >.< And we own stuff for the Chinese cupping thing, too. It HURTS! I played around with it just for the heck of it and it creates these ugly round red circles. Ugh.
Spooning is so good for you though. You should learn, it's a vital skill to have and pass on to your kids. Though I agree waking up early is a completely different world than when you wake up at a normal time.
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