More hair than usual has been falling out of my head lately, so I made a trip down to the local Chinese Traditional Medicine Dispensary last week to see what the doctor's orders/recommendations were.  Walking in the front door (actually thick plastic strips hanging from the top to "keep in heat") reminded me of about the same aroma as a veterinarian's office in the States.  I came armed with a Chinese-English dictionary in case I heard terms like "anemia" or "zinc/iron deficiency", which I had heard before in America.  Little good it did in Chinese medicine, but somehow we communicated back and forth about my options.  The doctor brought out several boxes - each boxset full of herbs and liquids.  All these boxes were supposed to last only four days - one cough syrup-sized bottle taken four times a day, too.  I thought that before I bought and consumed mindlessly, I atleast needed to write down all the important ingredients off the box and come back and Google them all.  So I found myself today on the internet looking for a Chinese-English medical dictionary online.  I found one, boy, did I find one.  Here is one exerpt from the aforementioned site:

All Chinese characters used at this site are displayed in GIF image format thus obviating the need for a text-support system. This also serves to deter the 'cut-and-paste' plagiarism rampant in this decadent age.