Citing an example of cooperation at the local level, Her says the foundation built nearly 1,000 houses - powered by state-of-the-art solar energy systems - on land provided by the Kaohsiung County government for those displaced from devastated regions around Namahsia.

“I'm twice the woman I was” ; “very different to what I have ever been for years before the operation”; “better—no comparison.”

The use of vapour baths ('stone baths') and the smoke of certain herbs to drive out spirits of disease in animals and humans is well-attested in Germanic folklore and leechcraft, though, and might be compared with the use of steam and steam-baths typical of classical medicine, the Christian ritual of burning away the ashes of embers of sin …

Who having chid me almost to the Ruin, / Of a Disheritance