Word: herbalize
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...limas, or traditional Malay home, and serves fresh seafood alongside Mediterranean pastas, bouillabaisse and linguine. Serai (meaning lemongrass) is the hotel's other dining option and works rather better, with a repertoire of Indian, Chinese and Malay dishes. If you overindulge, the spa offers body wraps, steam rooms and herbal baths. The urut melayu - a traditional Malay massage - is a specialty, as is the Earthlight Ritual, which features a ginger scrub and a massage with heated jade, obsidian and other stones. Not quite as soothing - but not bad considering the luxury on offer - are the introductory room rates, which start...
...Herbal medicine is rife with "just so" stories. St. John's wort is good for rheumatism and chamomile cures insomnia because Grandma said it was just so. But scientific evidence is emerging that Asia's favorite leafy tonic, green tea, may in fact be everything Granny said it was. A joint research team from the University of Murcia in Spain and the John Innes Centre in England has found that green tea is loaded with a compound, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), that has demonstrable cancer-fighting properties...
...still very much a society in transition, a place where the National Buddhism Office in 2003 felt obliged to warn monks not to use mobile phones in public. Very Thai is a compendium of fast-disappearing folklore: fortune-tellers who divine omens from rat-bitten clothes; apothecaries who make herbal aphrodisiacs so strong that they "could make a monk leap over the temple wall in search of romance"; fetus worshipping, spirit channeling, and other not-in-front-of-the-tourists activities...
...studies conclude that the herbal extract butterbur may be effective in cutting the number and severity of migraine headaches in children and adults. Like other supplements, butterbur (an ancient treatment for plague) should be used with care...
UNCOMMONGOODS.COM Heart-shaped vases, glass balloons, velvet herbal slippers and a high-heel cake server (don't ask) are among the many offbeat gifts you'll find here...