Oooooh!!  Arrrghhhh!  I don’t do very well when I’m sick.  I just get awfully whiny so today, Gnome had to deal with me as a patient.  I really hate to be a patient!!

Gnome: “Why are you whining more than normal, Munchkin?”

Munchkin: “Waaaaahhhh!!!  Waaahh!!”

Gnome: “Can you communicate in a more coherent way so that I could assist you in some way?”

Munchkin: “Waaahhhh!!  I have mouth ulcers and they really hurt…it really hurts even to drink a cup of tea!”

Gnome “Oh dear….”

So, I’m not that sick but sick enough to feel that my energy levels are lower than normal.  Doctor Gnome has prescribed serosi (bitter gourd) leaf tea as my treatment, three times a day for the next week.  No Munchkin fried yummies and no meat.  In Chinese medicine, mouth ulcers are considered an indication of “heatiness”…this is a condition not recognised in western medicine.  The remedy is the intake of “cooling” foods and teas.  Serosi is considered a cooling plant.

I’m also eating some of these…ear mushrooms foraged from our farm:

Oh, and if I can find enough slugs, I’ll have them too.  That’s not a joke, by the way, we are talking about raising slugs/snails for meat but no profit!