Note01: Topic today is about traditional therapy for colds in China This is my first wrighting in italki and hope to carry on in the next few months. I felt a little ache and dry in my throat when I wake up this morning.This feeling was so familiar and I knew I may catch a cold again, which makes me think back the childhood when I hate the bad taste of medicine pills and my family have to think about some other methods to alleviate my uncomfortable. The first method is the most common used all over the world: drink hot water as frequency as possible! What's more, the water mu parents prepared for me is so hot that I feel a little hurt over my tongue but very useful for my sore throat. The second method is "Gua Sha", I am not clear how to speak it in English. It takes a piece of smooth ox horn or coin as tool, each time before you use this tool to scarp on one's back you should put on a little white over the surface of the tool. Remember to scarp heavily so that the back is totally hot and red. Nowadays, Gua Sha is not only used to cure colds but also in some other physical therapy. The third is Cupping. What a weird name in English. Briefly speaking, we light a fire (you can use a piece of paper, but in China we will use some herb which I have forgotten...) in a cup, then upsidedown the cup and press it on one's back heavily. It is obvirously that the fire will go out when oxgen beside these cups is used up. The most interesting part is that, the hot air in the cups keep stimulating your back and your back is absorbed into those cups which even makes you a little hurt. After all these cups cool down we bring them off your dotted back and then have a good sleep. All the three methods are useful for colds and some other diseases caused by cold weather.