You gotta be careful when you come to China. If you get sick, you have two medicine choices, Western or Chinese. Are you going to take Western medicine, or be adventurous and take Chinese traditional medicine? I guess I've been trying some of both!Today, my host family suggested I try some baguan. I'll do my best to describe it. Using these plastic cups and a reverse air pump, the cups are put on your back and the air is sucked out so that it gives your skin red hickeys! They do several of these at a time so that you have 5 or 6 welts on your back. I'm not sure exactly what the theory is behind it, but supposedly if you do it on different pressure points on your back, it heals different ailments.
I wasn't really in the mood today, so I only tried one. It didn't hurt, but it didn't make me feel much better either. Would you try it?
