Bread & Butter and Corona

Sri Lanka, February 2020

Today, I have been given a special ayurvedic treatment which consists in letting liquid butter pearl into your eyes, held back from running down the face by fresh bread dough. I had to open and close my eyes constantly during fifteen minutes in order to let the butter spread all around inside the eye ball. It burns like hell.

Otherwise , detoxing to the max for two weeks. And wandering around the gardens of the ayurvedic clinic to watch the plants grow, which become natural remedies and medicine for the resident patients. I have been given some of it too, looking like brown round little rabbit poop, having to swallow them three times a day after meals.

The average age of the patients is around sixty and with one elder couple I spend some evenings playing chess, where as my compagnion at the dinner table keeps talking about his youth and career start as an engineer during Adenauer times. He now lives in Japan since a few decades and had arrived same day as me to the clinic with a huge cold and sore throat. Of course , i was alarmed and thought that this was it. Virus all over the place, thus being hidden in the non touristic backland country of Sri Lanka to gain back health. Anyway, he recovered with the doctor’s plants after a couple of days.

So happy to be here. Will be traveling back without the walking cane for sure , in contrary to my arrival journey. But, unfortunately, anti virus mask is still a must. Lets see how much medicine fits into my little luggage bag around the shoulder, the only one i took along besides the rucksack with laptop.

In admiration for the art of healing, wether it is the traditional natural medicine or the scientists and physicians trying feverish and incessantly to find a vaccination solution against Coronavirus COVID 19 disease.

Hari Hari ( srilankese for: everything will be ok )