Chinese Oil Balm

Chinese Medicinal Oil Balm Cure-All

I've been down with the flu-cough-fever/heaty viruses for more than a week now. Bed rest, 4 days worth of MC has not at all been effective and I am still killing trees with my incessant use of tissue papers.

And the new bed is a killer. It's like sleeping on a table top and I've no energy to go out and find a decent softer mattress layer to help cushion our tortured bodies. Pity I can't change the bed. What's the point in buying something to correct something else?

Like the silly Channel sales girls who recommended foundation one shade too light, and then told me to get loose powder two shades darker to correct my corrective makeup.

*Gallant rubbed my back with strong Chinese sting/stink balm and I was reading the box. Cures headaches, fatigue, muscle ache, colds, stuffy nose, rheumatism, itch, bites, and a long list of other ailments. After a couple of minutes, good lordy it works!

But it could not cure the broken heart.

I'm in a lost mood. My spirit badly needs repairing else I can't make anything else work.

Heck, I can't even get drunk when I really wanted and needed to with quadruple times more alcohol than I can usually take (and I had two other seasoned drinkers puking instead).

Thank goodness le grande tour is only two weeks away. I truly want to come back a made-over woman.