Future Epidemic

Yay! It's time for a post with new content and not the same usual rantings.

Because my grandmother has this condition called "shen she" - something about a snake, it was brought to my attention that there exists various conditions that science is not the perfect solution. Apparently, it should be cured by traditional methods - not even Chinese medicine is the best remedy. The condition is painful, similar to scalding by hot water. It's itchy but scratching it will spread it quickly. Apparently, after a night, it will spread quickly in a circle around the part of your body. It is said that when it comes full circle, the illness is now fatal. Hence the snake name as snakes are more active at night.

I've always been supportive of Chinese medicine - things that are natural, and now there's a new realm of medicine that dates earlier into the past millennium.The traditional therapy is not intrusive. According to my father, they measure using a rope from a point - presumably from the origin of infection. The doctor then will come to a Aha! moment and take a lighted candle and push it past the rope. The candle will be extinguished. Repeating this makes up one session. By the second session, most would have recovered. My father said it's to burn the eyes of the snake and consultation should take place at night.

Now, the Singapore Skin Centre may be able to cure it, but it's not as effective and the time for recovering is longer. I think that in the future, these old diseases will creep up to us again, in a time where those minorities would have become non-existent, in a time where those medicinal plants are replaced by Brownfield sites.

I really hope to preserve everything we have. That's the beauty of the world.