Sunday, August 29, 2010

050107 herbalists at CRU

The cat goes on holiday only to end up at a biomedical conference - just no way to escape from any reminder of work...!

Mekong regional ethnomedicine conference at the School of Traditional & Alternative Medicine, Chiangrai Rajabhat University:

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Showcase of plants used for traditional medicine:

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Once we arrived at the conference venue the Ban Apa herbalist & pals made a beeline for the plant display:

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The cat started thinking of Getafix & the annual druids' conference in the Forest of Carnutes in the comic book Asterix & the Goths:

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It must be like having the entire pharmacopeia/encyclopedia stored in their cranial harddisks spring to life in full 3-D glory, &/or looking at their dream garden/pharmacy :P

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Traditional massage:

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For the conference dinner:

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One very tired conference organiser:

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Photo by the other cat

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