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...rudimentary health retreats have little in common with the luxurious, pampering spa resorts that sprang up across Asia in the late 1990s. Like other Gulf of Thailand getaways, many were once the preserve of the pierced and tattooed classes. But as onetime travelers swapped backpacks for briefcases and Koh Samui opened an airport, the resorts found themselves swamped with stressed-out executives in need of a little spiritual care...
...week (excluding bamboo bungalow rooms that range from $6 to $45 a night), the Spa at Samui's eastern Lamai beach offers nothing less than the elixir of youth. With promises of "a longer and happier life," derivative traders, TV producers, flight attendants and other visitors swallow herbal nutrition tablets, quaff detoxifiers and regularly flush their insides. The talk over laxative tea runs from the latest stock fluctuations to?I'm not joking?the day's excreta. The guest book includes testaments to changed lives and?I wish I were joking?photos of half-meter-long expunged intestinal parasites...
Those with an appetite for more (or maybe less) can also try the quieter Healing Child (also called the Health Oasis) at Ban Bo on the north side of Samui. Here the managers are pushing back the frontiers of science. "The feeling of hunger is emotionally rather than physically based," they claim, adding that anyone feeling woozy during a fast is merely suffering "an illusion of the mind." Hunger moves in cycles, they say. Pangs return after 4 hours, then 9, 18, 36, three days, one week, two weeks, three weeks and finally six weeks. For some, the treatments...