Chinese medicine: Jun 15, 2010 Recently, my mother felt painful in her waist. One of her colleagues told her that an old-fashioned prescription is very effective in curing the aches, so my mother decided to have a try. I think it can be termed as "Chinese medicine". I doubted that if I can explicitly decribe how to make it, but I will try my best to do it. The raw materials are gingers, wine, the roots of calamus, the leaves of orange tree and mugwort. The first step is cutting up all the gingers,roots and leaves into small pieces as much as you can.Then, put all the bits into the pot and fry it. In the process of frying, the wine should be poured into the pot constantly.The only request is the mixture should be fried into hot tempereture. The last step is put the mixture into a sleeve and tie it on where the pain is. My father did most of this, and I just helped him. I thingk it is difficult to cut something into small pieces. The smell of this medicine is so weird that I could hardly describe it. The making of this medicine is a special experience.I hope it really works on relief the aches.