Mugwort 艾草 moxibustion or moxa

Moxibustion is a form of heat therapy.

Dried herbs, like a giant cigar  are lit.

I had a sore leg, and the practitioner burn a

stick and went round my leg.


In the book, a self trained Chinese doctor used moxibustion 

to treat her patients including Japanese soldiers.


艾草 in Mandarin. mugwort growing really nicely even in winter
used in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine in a pulverized and aged form called moxa. 

艾草（学名：Artemisia argyi  

 This is the Artemisia argyi which I used. Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris in my own dialect Ngai, or àicǎo (艾草 zh:艾草) in Mandarin. I took this to my adult ESOL class,

I talked about Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; who found a cure for Malaria using the herb qinghao (Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood). The two plants look so alike.

Remembrance_Day and Captain Roger Cheng

The Fort Sylvia (Malay: Kubu Sylvia) is a historical building located in Kapit town in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia. Built in 1880, it was renamed after Rani Sylvia Brooke, wife of Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke, in 1925. photo: David Lau.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sylvia
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sylvia
Captain Roger Cheng Aka Captain Fong parachute down to Kapit with four other Canadian Chinese soldiers. It was into this situation that 29-year-old Roger Cheng and four other Chinese-Canadians, Jimmy Shiu, Norman Lowe, Roy Chan and Lewis King, were flown on August 6, 1945. Cheng was the first Chinese-Canadian to become an officer in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, a rare accomplishment in those days. He was an electrical engineering graduate from McGill University and spoke fluent Cantonese, making him a natural to head this team.

From Kapit he led the Allied soldiers to liberate the people from the Japanese Occupation. What is special to me is the Japanese Camp was ten minutes from my Grandpa's house. My grandpa and my dad were privileged to witness the surrender.

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/second-world-war/uncommon-courage
http://www.rcsigs.ca/index.php/Cheng,_Roger_K

Roger Kee Cheng served as a member of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals during the Second World War. He saw service in Ottawa prior to undertaking commando and guerrilla training for his subsequent service in the Molucca Islands and Borneo. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day

The federal department of Veterans Affairs Canada states that the date is of "remembrance for the men and women who have served, and continue to serve our country during times of war, conflict and peace"; specifically, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and all conflicts since then in which members of the Canadian Armed Forces have participated.^[14] The department runs a program called Canada Remembers with the mission of helping young and new Canadians, most of whom have never known war, "come to understand and appreciate what those who have served Canada in times of war, armed conflict and peace stand for and what they have sacrificed for their country."^[15]

Roger Kee Cheng
Born 16 May 1915
Allegiance	Canada
Service/branch	Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Rank	Captain Chan Kee Seng, born 1882 in China The most important thing that came out of writing this book is confirmed research from Canada validated my Grandpa and my Dad's narration of Captain Fong. Captain Fong is not a figment of their imagination. Captain Fong aka Roger Cheng was the Captain from Canada who parachuted down to Kapit and led the Allies at the surrender of the Japanese.

Not every flower comes to bloom

“Not every love is given voice. Not every flower comes to bloom and their folded petals must be frozen in the green. Others unfurl and flourish, turning their faces to a light they do not doubt.” #CallTheMidwife

watched call the midwife, and there was a stillborn.During the war, there were many stillborns.

A cure for Malaria.

Malaria was rife and it is marvelous this China Researcher has found a cure for it.



An obscure Chinese woman researcher finds a cure for Malaria from an obscure herb,
 sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) – or in Chinese qinghao – being used to treat malaria.

Amid all the madness Tu Youyou, then a researcher at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, was handed a daunting mission: to find a drug that would cure malaria.

The 84-year-old pharmacologist was awarded half of the prestigious 8m Swedish kronor (£631,000) prize for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug that proved to be an improvement on chloroquine, which had become far less effective as the malaria parasites developed resistance.

William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Tu Youyou win Nobel prize in medicine

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“The work was the top priority so I was certainly willing to sacrifice my personal life,” the famously understated scientist later recalled.On Monday, nearly half a century after her life-changing quest began, Tu was awarded the Nobel prize in medicine for her role in creating a drug that helped slash malaria mortality rates in Africa and Asia, saving millions of lives.

Yet for all her achievements, Tu, who is now 84, remains a little known figure, even in her native China where she had drifted into obscurity despite the magnitude of her discovery.

http://whistlestopphotohunt.blogspot.co.nz/ 

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/05/youyou-tu-how-maos-challenge-to-malaria-pioneer-led-to-nobel-prize

Survivors of the Japanese Occupation

1975, Mother took me up to Durin to say goodbye to all my Kong relatives before I went to university In Canada. Seated: Grandma Kong, my Bodai, Great grandma Kong,Ah Tai and Grandpa Kong, Kung Dai.

My Ma was only 12 when the Japanese came. She was force to marry my dad to avoid being taken by the Japanese to become a comfort woman..

Baby delivered by a nun.

This is a lovely photo of Mum with niece Jane Kallang Akup. She is a special baby to me because when I stayed with her mum, Sister Elizabeth was at the clinic when Jane was coming. Unfortunately just before Jane was born, Mum drove me home. I had wanted to stay and see her being born. I often teased Jane that it was likened to running the marathon and then deprived of the prize.

Jane was delivered in a convent by a nun.

Pumpkins and pigs.

www.edgarsmission.org.au
This explains why I don't eat pumpkins