Fly in your tea

Fly in your tea,

A colleague of mine who was suffering from a seriously long spell of bad cough resorted to quite a strange measure in order to get cured.

He went to a Chinese medicinal shop and brought back a satchel with herbs.

Nothing wrong with that, isn't it? Traditional Chinese medicine is based on age-old trial and errors using herbs that Mother Nature provides us with, believing that the 'ying' and 'yang' within our body is incorrectly balanced, therefore making us feel sick.  Thus the medicines are meant to correct the imbalance, capiche? Simple as that.

But c'mon, this is a bit weird isn't it? Herbs mixed with one big black fly??

Witnessing this strange act happening, wild thoughts ran through my mind...."people seriously gobble up this stuff?"

First he poured hot water into his glass mug, let it simmer for a while and then siphoned off the contents into another mug, minus the herbs and black fly......deary me, and I thought he was going to swallow the whole lot.

And did he manage to get his ying and yang balanced out? Honestly, I didn't see much of an improvement over the next few days.

I bet his stomach was revolting at the idea of drinking a concoction of herbs and a BLACK FLY :p

Have to take my hat off to my colleague for his dare and mettle :) Cheers!!