… and the West. Over to Fëanor:
On a hot early morning in Kerala every month, my father and his siblings and cousins and possibly even the neighbours’ kids used to be lined up and force-fed a disgustingly bitter concoction of castor oil and milk. The idea was to clear their bowels, purge their innards, reduce them to quivering wrecks and restore them to full health. [...]
Before one scoffs at yet another example of Eastern mumbo-jumbo and grandma’s folk remedies, I must point out that the Western hocus-pocus of colonic irrigation is not that very different. Is it? Is it?
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