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Weird Ointment
Question:
Paging Mulder and Scully… Went to a new client the other day. Sequence of meetings of the starched shirt kind, culminating today with a zap to the West Country and back (nice weather, wrote the report in the ruin of a 13th century Abbey at Tintern, paddled the distnat tide at Weston Super mare, drove back, thanks for asking 
). At the very last instant on Friday, though, my contact at the London Office was saying goodbye, and we were tidying up her room, where I had spread out the laptop and so forth. On her guest chair was my notebook, and what looked like a nightlight candle in a plastic pot. "Is this yours?" I said. "No," she said, "it’s for you. You have what I’ve got, and you should try this." Picture me open mouthed; the pot had japanese writing on it. Whitish waxy contents. "What is it?" (well hey, wouldn’t you have asked?) "I don’t read japanese." She said the name of some herb or plant. Naturally, being important, it went clear out of my head, but the last word wasn’t a latin name, it was an english word like fork (wasn’t root). "Oh," I said, totally floored. "Err, I’ll try it, err, thanks…" And then I was off. It looks and feels a *lot* like a cortisone cream, or salicylic acid. White goop. the action on the few lesions I have tried it with (back of the middle finger of each hand) has been rapid – strong loss of redness and slightly slower loss of flake. The two lesions on each middle finger are pretty much my most tenacious, so this is a decent test. I assume from the action of the stuff that it’s a probably natural steroid analogue or equivalent – or a 100% shill of salicylic acid. In the next week or so I shall bump into this client again, and at an appropriate moment I’ll be asking where the damn stuff comes from, but meanwhile, if I point the digital camera at the japanese label, can anyone tell me what it says if I mail them the pic? (probably ‘dipshit roundeyes buy this crap cause they think it’s natural’) Steve
Response:
infinite number of monkeys and typed: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Paging Mulder and Scully… >Went to a new client the other day. Sequence of meetings of the starched >shirt kind, culminating today with a zap to the West Country and back >(nice weather, wrote the report in the ruin of a 13th century Abbey at >Tintern, paddled the distnat tide at Weston Super mare, drove back, thanks >for asking ). At the very last instant on Friday, though, my contact at >the London Office was saying goodbye, and we were tidying up her room, >where I had spread out the laptop and so forth. >On her guest chair was my notebook, and what looked like a nightlight >candle in a plastic pot. "Is this yours?" I said. >"No," she said, "it’s for you. You have what I’ve got, and you should try >this." >Picture me open mouthed; the pot had japanese writing on it. Whitish waxy >contents. >"What is it?" (well hey, wouldn’t you have asked?) "I don’t read >japanese." >She said the name of some herb or plant. Naturally, being important, it >went clear out of my head, but the last word wasn’t a latin name, it was >an english word like fork (wasn’t root). >"Oh," I said, totally floored. "Err, I’ll try it, err, thanks…" And then >I was off. >It looks and feels a *lot* like a cortisone cream, or salicylic acid. >White goop. the action on the few lesions I have tried it with (back of >the middle finger of each hand) has been rapid – strong loss of redness >and slightly slower loss of flake. The two lesions on each middle finger >are pretty much my most tenacious, so this is a decent test. >I assume from the action of the stuff that it’s a probably natural steroid > analogue or equivalent – or a 100% shill of salicylic acid. In the next >week or so I shall bump into this client again, and at an appropriate >moment I’ll be asking where the damn stuff comes from, but meanwhile, if I >point the digital camera at the japanese label, can anyone tell me what it >says if I mail them the pic? (probably ‘dipshit roundeyes buy this crap >cause they think it’s natural’)
Send me a pic. My wife can read it. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Steve