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There are bitter herbal replacements in TCM for bear bile, but in China man prefer the real thing. The end result is horrible,

My girlfriend has been practicing Kung Fu for a few years and is interested in TCM as an adjunct to western medicine, not as a replacement. Some of it is a load of hooey, but some of the herbal remedies are fantastic. She has this tincture (sounds like what you are making is a tincutur) called Dit Ta Jow or something that her first teacher (who is in China now at his teachers temple, preparing for his test to be a "master") brought back for her as a gift that is incredible at helping to heal muscle pain or injury.

Yeah my stuff is tincture for internal use. Dit Dat Chow is for external use. It helped her with a sprain or something? She can always buy the herbs herself and pour cheap vodka over them and let it steep for months.... the longer the better. Alcohol actually extracts stuff from the herbs that water cannot. Cheap vodka is OK since it's for external use. Maybe even rubbing alcohol is OK

On the other hand, I'll never let anyone stick acupuncture needles into me, that's total quackery.

Funny how the environuts make out 3rd world people to be more "connected with nature" than us first worlders -

Being that they live in nature more, they have a lot more time to scheme and plan cruelties to animals. And ruin the environment in other creative ways. They are no better than us. You give em bulldozers and dynamite and they'll start impacting a lot more than they do. Lack of technology is the only factor that limits them

yet we are the ones with excellent conservation programs,

Just check out how "closer to nature" peasant types poison the landscape with arsenic in gold mining operations

and poaching of endangered species isn't the problem in the US that they have in many 3rd world countries, and we have laws against cruelty to animals here while in 3rd world countries they treat animals horribly. Stupid! since they taste better when they haven't been abused.