Vietnamese natural medicine

Museum of Vietnamese Traditional Medicine


 

This is a fascinating place. I spent a couple of hours there last year and I'm keen to go back. It's a 4 storey building jam packed full of amazing things - medical instruments, herbal medicines, apothecary, statues, pottery, paintings and much much more.

As you can see in the above photo, Cobra Wine (it's actually spirits but in Vietnam the word for wine and spirits is the same) is considered a medicine.

These are some terrifying looking surgical instruments. I think if I was being operated on by someone using these "tools of terror" I'd want to drink the whole bottle of Cobra Wine!

That's the biggest teapot I've ever seen!

I could post tons more photos, but I'll save it for another day. 

 

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Ghengis
Ghengis

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