Third Session Equals Nasty Drink

Well, I had my third acupuncture session last night and I think it went really well. I am definitely starting to notice a difference in my health. I am more awake throughout the day and I don’t get as cold as I normally do. I also was instructed to start on another herbal beverage today and continue it for another couple weeks. The herbal drink will jumpstart my immune system; however, my acupuncturist informed me that it will taste nasty. I am thinking how much worse can it taste than the astragalus water? Well, I found out this morning. I filled my Styrofoam coffee cup with hot water and put the H13 (aka nasty herbs) in it and watched them quickly dissolve. Once the water cooled off a bit I tried to chug it down as fast as I could. I didn’t get far in my chugging because I instantly started to gag and came close to puking in my office. I immediately stopped my herbal chugging and was frustrated with the smell and gagging taste so I dumped it out. After the nasty taste finally disappeared from my mouth an hour later I decided that I would take my second drink after lunch and this time I would man-up and just take the drink…with my nose plugged shut of course. It was now time to drink the second drink of the day and my goal was to drink at least half of it, so I only put half of the contents in half a glass of hot water. This time I had two supporters from my office that would not let me quite. It was like they were rooting for me to finish a marathon, or something, but nope it was a nasty drink. I am facing my Styrofoam cup and ready to go in and take it like a man, but instead I came out whining like a pansy. I did accomplish a big gulp and was ready to throw in the towel, but my supporters wouldn’t let me give up. Geez, they wouldn’t leave my dam office until I drank the cup of puke. I figured the only way to get rid of them was to drink my H13 so they could leave me alone to wallow in my nasty after taste. About 20 minutes later I had it all sitting quietly in my belly. Now, all that work for a half a cup of liquid…geez…what is a whole cup going to take to get down?