Urine boiled egg dish in China. (Illustration) Similar to boiled eggs with tea, but with a special ingredient that is soaked, boiled and stewed in the boy’s urine. This dish is considered an ethereal pleasure of the Chinese, so boiled egg with urine is also known with a rather “beautiful” name, which is boiled egg with pupil urine, or boiled egg with male urine. Close-up of an egg boiled with pupil urine. (Illustration) The dish “boiled eggs with urine” has a fairly simple recipe, including only eggs, time and pupil urine. Every day, urine from boys under the age of 10 is collected from local primary schools. Eggs are first soaked in urine, then boiled. Once the eggs have been hunted, the shells are broken to allow urine to penetrate into the eggs, and then continue to be flushed with urine at room temperature to prevent the eggs from being overcooked. Woman pouring urine on top of eggs. (Illustration) Since ancient times, Eastern medicine has given “the juice of the small copper” as a medicine, which can cure many different diseases. Therefore, it is said that boiled eggs with urine also have the effect of enhancing blood circulation, increasing vitality, and even preventing stroke. Because of those “fanciful” uses, boiled eggs with pupil urine cost four times more than the price of ordinary boiled eggs. Urine boiled eggs cost more than regular boiled eggs. (Illustration) However, whether it is an intangible cultural heritage or an oriental medicine with many healing and health-enhancing effects, not everyone is brave enough to try this strange and delicious dish. This looks unhygienic. Even today, Chinese medical experts and international public opinion are still skeptical, arguing quite fiercely about the use as well as the food hygiene problem of the pupil’s urine boiled egg. Although it is an intangible cultural heritage, not everyone dares to try this dish. (Illustration) But the two words “elite” in the culinary industry and the time factor are inherently inseparable. Whatever you say, boiled eggs with urine have existed for a century and have become an indisputable cultural feature in the cuisine of Indochina in particular, and of China in general.

Chicken eggs are a very common food, processed by people around the world with different types of dishes. But in China, people have a strange egg dish that at first glance can make diners not want to eat – the “brass egg” of Indochina, Zhejiang. It’s an egg boiled in a boy’s urine. “Intangible Cultural Heritage” of Indochina China has many strange specialties, including the dish boiled eggs in the urine of boys. Due to being popular since ancient times in many real historical records, the dish “boiled eggs with urine” was officially recognized as part of the “intangible cultural heritage” of Indochina, in in 2008, and proposed the recognition of a world cultural heritage for this unique dish. They believe that urine-boiled eggs are a part of Chinese cuisine and deserve the same honor as Korean kimchi or Japanese washoku. This dish of boiled eggs with urine in Dong Nam is considered a typical Chinese culture and is widely sold on the streets of Indochina city. In 2014, traditional Chinese chefs plan to introduce this dish to the world during Easter. With a certain amount of confidence, the chefs from Zhejiang province consider these eggs to be of an exceptionally high standard. Although they are processed by a method that scares many foreigners, their taste and effects are excellent. Visitors to the city of Indochina often cannot ignore the famous boiled egg dish here. This specialty has appeared thousands of years ago with its taste and healing effects. The dish is considered a tangible cultural heritage of Indochina. Similar to boiled eggs in tea, but with a special ingredient that is soaked, boiled and stewed in the boy’s urine and eaten as an elegant animal of the Chinese, this urine boiled egg dish Also known with a rather “beautiful” name is a boiled egg with pupil’s urine, or a boiled egg with a male’s urine. The dish “boiled eggs with urine” has a fairly simple recipe, consisting of only eggs, time and pupil urine. According to Mr. Lu Ming, the chef who wants to bring this dish to the world said that the urine for boiled eggs is obtained from primary schools. “The boys will pee in buckets and we collect them every day to ensure the best quality,” he said. Only boys’ urine is used, especially from boys under 10 years of age. There is no answer to the question of why it has to be a boy’s urine, only that this somewhat bizarre cooking method has existed for centuries here. In particular, people will use the entire amount of urine during the day instead of keeping it for use gradually to ensure the quality of boiled eggs. This egg recipe has been passed down through generations. Eggs boiled in boys’ urine are of an extremely high standard. Eggs are first soaked in urine, then boiled. The dish “men’s egg” is considered an elixir of life. Once the eggs have been hunted, the shell is broken to allow urine to penetrate into the egg, then continue to flush with urine at room temperature to prevent the egg from being overcooked. During the simmering process, urine is continuously added, along with some herbs. This recipe leaves the egg whites a pale yellow color, while the yolks turn green. After ripening, dong quai will usually have a pale yellow white and a green yolk, salty, sour and of course indispensable the characteristic “smell” of urine. However, this dish is considered not too difficult to eat. Recently, urine has added a distinct sour taste to eggs. The chefs were also unable to explain why. They think this sour taste is special and delicious. They want the dish to be exported widely so that the whole world can fully appreciate the value of Chinese cuisine. Considered a medicine Since ancient times, Eastern medicine has given “tieu dong’s juice” as a medicine, which can cure many different diseases. Therefore, it is said that boiled eggs with urine also have the effect of enhancing blood circulation, increasing vitality, and reducing pain in hips, legs and joints and even preventing stroke. Because of those “fanciful” uses, boiled eggs with pupil urine cost four times more than the price of ordinary boiled eggs. The ancients did not consider urine as a waste product of the body, but considered it a valuable medicine. That’s why people call this water samsara, reverting ladders. Modern researches today show that urine contains many substances that are beneficial to health such as urea, uric acid, hipuric acid, purine alkali, amino acids, fatty acids, endocrine substances (hormones) vitamins and enzymes. .. Thanks to the chemical composition and effects of these ingredients, scientists have been able to explain the medicinal uses of urine recorded in ancient documents that were previously unexplained. Accordingly, children’s urine is effective for postpartum women who are weak, cough, fever, and vomit blood, used to prepare some medicines. Mr. Ge Yaohua, an egg seller, introduced: “My family eats eggs in every meal. Families in Indochina love them. This type of boiled egg is very good for health, avoids back pain of the elderly, and gives more energy to work.” However, not everyone likes this dish. Whether it is an “intangible cultural heritage” or an oriental medicine with many healing and health-enhancing effects, not everyone is brave enough to try a strange and delicious dish. This unsanitary look. And there have also been many doubts and arguments, giving many warnings for this dish about the “unsanitary” problem not only in the way of eating but also in the air at the streets selling boiled eggs with urine. become “smelly”. According to Reuters, health experts have warned about hygiene issues surrounding the use of urine to boil eggs. The people of Dongyang themselves also split into two streams of opinion. One side said that this dish is “good for health and prevents colds”, the other side “does not believe it and is afraid to eat it”. In addition, the chefs could not explain why the egg dish has a very characteristic sour taste. Surely enjoying this egg dish will be a big challenge for diners from far away. However, if you are brave enough to try, this dish is extremely easy to find when coming to Indochina. Each boiled chicken egg costs 1.5 yuan (about 4,800 VND), twice as much as other boiled eggs but not too expensive for tourists. In addition, if there are acquaintances living in this city, it is highly likely that you will also be treated to a special egg dish by the host because the people here also often eat boiled eggs as a daily snack. This dish carries the two words “elite” in the culinary industry and the time element is inseparable. Whatever you say, boiled eggs with urine have existed for a century and become an indisputable cultural feature in the cuisine of Indochina in particular, and of China in general.

People then talked about strategizing against rats, setting extremely sophisticated traps, or fortifying houses against small but annoying enemies. Six months have passed, the number of rats has once again increased sharply, despite thousands of tons of rat poison used, not to mention a terrible flood that swept across the east coast of the country. Rats are no longer an enemy to be eradicated, they seem to have become annoying black fluffy clouds that move everywhere where people have to learn to live together, according to the report. Guardian . Nightmare The nightmare that Australia is experiencing is known as the “rat epidemic”, caused by huge populations of house mice. The house mouse was brought to Australia by Europeans in 1788. Since then, rat epidemics have occurred several times in Australia when conditions are favorable, with increasing frequency. This year, the situation became so serious that the New South Wales state government had to announce an emergency relief package of 50 million USD for people to fight the rat epidemic, including money for rat poison research, drug support. mouse and rat traps up to $1,000 per small business and $500 per household. Dead rat in a farmer’s warehouse in Walgett. Photo: Guardian. But for many people, the support is nothing compared to the damage the rats cause. “We were away for four weeks and had relatives check the house every day. There was a period of about four days when no one came to look, and in those four days, they were all over the house,” said Louise McCabe, resident in the town of Tallimba, said. When relatives were asked to open the door by McCabe, thousands of rats were inside. “They chewed up the new carpet, they ate the wooden floor. The oven they broke. They ate the insulation inside the dishwasher,” McCabe said. McCabe later discovered rats nesting inside pillows on lounge chairs, crawling into kitchen cabinets, destroying electrical circuits. Damages totaled up to $30,000. The climax was when the woman put the clothes soaked in rat urine into the washing machine. When she returned, she discovered a dead rat had swollen inside the glass. Meanwhile, a farmer named Ben Storer living in Walgett, said that 800 hectares of his sorghum has been destroyed by the herd, causing damage up to 200,000 USD. Rats attack every part of Storer’s farm, from the grain barn and the mill to the swimming pool’s filter pipe. At the height of the rat epidemic, thousands of dead rats were found every time Mr. Storer used a grinder to grind the grain he harvested. Baiting is the only measure that can be deployed on a large scale to control rat populations. As a result, in the worst-affected towns, the smell of urine and dead rats was overwhelming. Local residents described the smell of rotting rats as “unbearable”. “With poison, we can kill 100,000 rats a night. But the next morning, another 200,000 will come back,” Mr. Storer said. “No one understands the rat epidemic until they’ve experienced it. No one understands the extreme stench, vandalized furniture. Rats eat all the insulation in the air conditioning system, eat the wires on the roof, corrode parts of the circuit board,” said John Southon, principal of Trundle Central High School. Winter hope While local residents seem to have given up on the fight against rats, New South Wales authorities have stepped in. Experts say they have successfully developed a rat poison that can turn the tide of the current war. A new rat poison using a super toxic chemical called bromadiolone is being approved for emergency use by the New South Wales government. However, scientists warn the drug can be dangerous for native animals that eat the dead rat. Steven Henery, broaching expert with the Australian Agency for Science and Industrial Research, said the coming winter would be an opportunity for humans to put an end to the current rat epidemic. “My hope is that winter will slow down the birth rate of mice, and that only a very small number of mice will survive,” said Henery. One of the real concerns, Mr. Henery warned, is that the rat population has a high winter survival rate, and if the weather conditions are favorable the following spring, they will start to thrive again. Farmers burn fields after harvesting to destroy the rat’s food source. Photo: Guardian. “In August, farmers need to go out to their fields, look for signs of infestation. If they find any, then they will have to kill them before the breeding season. property arrives,” Mr. Henry said. Any human rat eradication strategy will only be able to reduce the rat population to a certain extent. Experts say that to be able to overcome the rat epidemic, humans will have to wait for the help of natural phenomena that are really terrible for mice. “The very large number of individuals interacting with each other increases the risk of disease transmission. When this phenomenon occurs at the same time they run out of food, they will fall ill and start eating each other, eating the animals. young. That’s when their whole growth system collapses,” said Mr. Henery. But until that day comes, people will have to keep setting traps, laying baits, and praying the weather will turn bitter cold. “I can only pray for freezing cold. That’s all I can do right now,” McCabe said.

Signs that the body is dehydrated Thirsty Thirst is a common sign of not getting enough water (or fluids in general) to be hydrated. People don’t have to drink water right away, but as soon as possible. Dry mouth Dry mouth is one of the many ways your body signals it to need water. You won’t be able to produce saliva if your body doesn’t have enough fluids. In addition, bad breath often stems from dry mouth. Therefore, before deciding to chew gum, people should drink a glass of water to determine the cause of this phenomenon. Dark urine Urine is considered a measure of human health based on quantity, color and taste. The more water they contain, the clearer they are. Therefore, this particular liquid that is dark or dark in color is a warning sign that you should supplement your body with fluids. Reduced urination Water helps the kidneys remove toxins from the blood in the form of urine. If the organ is not properly hydrated, you will not urinate often. Long-term storage of these substances can lead to serious health problems. Here are some great ways to avoid dehydration, helping the body to always “stay hydrated” during hot weather: Add flavor to the filtered water Drinking water regularly 8-10 glasses in a day is enough for the adult body. In particular, in the summer, drink at least 12-15 glasses to avoid dehydration of the body. Many people do not like drinking water because they have no attractive taste. Drinking water regularly 8-10 glasses in a day is enough for the adult body. Therefore, you can add a few slices of lemon, strawberry, cucumber, mint leaves … to the water bottle to increase the flavor of the filtered water, stimulating you to drink more water. Carry a bottle of water with you wherever you go, it is the easiest way to stay hydrated all day. Natural cooling drink or smoothie Summer drinks such as coconut water and lemon juice can help reduce heat. These drinks are low in carbs and high in salt, preventing dehydration. Or you can also take a summer smoothie to help your body stay hydrated. Eat summer smoothies paired with delicious fruits, for example blend a mango smoothie mixed with yogurt and some honey. This is the ideal cooling drink when summer comes. Eat more fruits and vegetables Green vegetables contain an ideal amount of water to help your body retain water naturally. Fruits such as watermelon, peach oranges, pineapple … are all very healthy fruits, adding these fruits in the daily diet while helping to provide lost water, copper. when they were the fruits that were rich in vitamin C to help keep moisture. Green vegetables contain an ideal amount of water to help your body retain water naturally. Vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, and spinach are ideal for cooling the body. In addition, green vegetables also provide water to the skin to help brighten the skin. Add salad to serving size Salad helps the body cool down and prevents dehydration, is an extremely effective method of preventing dehydration on hot days. A plate of raw salad (can be refrigerated to cool) will help the body maintain a stable temperature. Mixing vegetables like lettuce, lettuce, cucumber will be a “cool rain” to cool your body this hot summer. Notes to avoid dehydration Avoid drinking water that is too cold Remember, when you drink water, you need to slowly, slowly let the body receive the water you are replenishing. It is necessary to limit drinking water that is too cold in the hot season because cold water will cool down the body and slow down metabolism, on the other hand, drinking a lot of cold water also causes sore throat. It is important to limit drinking water that is too cold in hot season because cold water will cool down the body. Avoid drinking coffee, tea, or alcohol Even if you are addicted to tea or coffee, make an effort to reduce your intake of both during the summer. Caffeinated and carbonated beverages increase body heat, which causes dehydration. Drink iced tea to balance excess heat in the body if absolutely necessary. Coffee and alcohol have a diuretic effect, making you urinate more and increasing the risk of dehydration and dehydration. Better yet, you should avoid consuming these beverages on hot days. Pay attention to the color and amount of urine Pay attention to the color and amount of urine because they can help warn you when you are dehydrated and dehydrated in the summer. Jonah Soolman, an American nutritionist, said: “If you feel like urinating every 1-2 hours, your urine is light yellow, you are replenishing enough water for your body. If you urinate a little, your urine is dark yellow, pay attention to drink more water because you are dehydrated and need to find solutions to avoid dehydration right away.

Vinegar: Vinegar is a very effective home remedy for soothing diaper rash. Mix a teaspoon of vinegar with a glass of water, and use this mixture to clean your baby when changing diapers. Baking soda: Baking soda helps with diaper rash without damaging delicate, delicate skin in babies. Mix two tablespoons of baking soda in about 1 liter of water and use this mixture to clean your baby with each diaper change. Coconut oil: Coconut oil has moisturizing, anti-fungal and antibacterial properties, thereby helping to soothe and heal the diaper rash of children. You can apply coconut oil directly to the diaper rash after each diaper change, or mix a few tablespoons of coconut oil with the baby’s bath water. Shea butter: Shea butter is a component of many skin care cosmetics thanks to its high vegetable fat content, the ability to improve blood circulation and accelerate cell regeneration, hydration. and its ability to kill bacteria and fungi. After washing and wiping the child’s buttocks and groin area, rub the butter between palms until the butter has melted, applying it to the diaper area. Oatmeal: Bathing your baby with oatmeal water helps treat diaper rash and accelerate skin recovery without the need for any topical medications. Mix one tablespoon of oatmeal in your child’s bath water and let him soak in it for about 10 minutes. Cornstarch: Cornstarch is hygroscopic, thus helping to keep young skin dry, preventing bacteria and fungi from multiplying. After giving your child a warm bath and drying with a soft cloth, sprinkle some cornstarch on the diaper rash instead of powder and repeat this process each time the baby is changing diapers. Breast milk: Breast milk is not only the main source of nutrition for babies, but also has many other uses. Simply put a few drops of breastmilk on the diaper rash of your baby, gently rub it until it is absorbed and dry, and then bring the diaper. Yogurt: Yogurt is also very effective at soothing the diaper rash, provided the yogurt you use is organic, natural, sugar-free yogurt, as sugar and preservatives can Harmful to baby’s skin. Apply a thick layer of yogurt to your child’s affected skin and immediately put on the diaper. Oil wax: Oil wax acts as a protective barrier against the irritants found in dirty diapers. After cleaning your child’s buttocks and groin area with warm water, dry and apply the oil wax evenly over this area before putting on the diaper. The atmosphere: Letting your child “let go” is the simplest way to reduce diaper rash. You can use plastic pads placed on the crawling area of ​​the child to prevent them from contaminating the blankets, or you can put the baby in a potty as soon as the baby shows signs of going out.

It’s filled with old furniture – about 10,000 books, 300 framed photos, some old computers and a filing cabinet. The space was so messy that the owner of the apartment stumbled across a mess and died amidst the garbage. Specialist team cleaning up for expensive New York apartments. Photo: Stefano Giovannini. The task for Toscano (45 years old) and colleagues is to clean this expensive apartment quietly to save face for the deceased owner. Share with New York Post “That man may have a reputation so they don’t want to make a fuss of death,” said the “special” cleaning staff in high-end buildings around the city. “What’s more, often the apartment management doesn’t want residents to panic when they see what’s inside the neighbors’ homes. Too bad you pay tons of money for a nice apartment and smell strange things from the next door, ”he added. 18 tons of household waste Recently, Toscano was hired to help a 90-year-old man handle the pile of books, papers, boxes, clothes and jewelry piled up inside the luxurious 3-bedroom apartment in the residential West Central Park. “Every corner is a mess. It takes 18 tons of trash in this expensive apartment, ”he recalls. The apartment was once filled with rubbish, pizza boxes and drug equipment before Toscano’s team arrived to move it for four days. Toscano says his company, which is a Queens-county branch of the Clutter Free Junk Removal Service and Cleanup Pros, handles such cases “once a week, sometimes two”. The most difficult part for this “special” cleaning team is that the building managers often ask them to “work discreetly” to avoid panicking the neighbors. That is equivalent to hiding the logo on the uniform, as well as keeping the information they throw away. “We have our own trash so people can’t see what’s being thrown away. We just need to try to speed up the schedule and get the trash out of the apartment quickly, ”Toscano said. However, that is almost impossible to do, as was the case 1.5 years ago in a South Central Park residential apartment building. That day, Toscano’s group had to demolish the floor of an apartment left behind by the mess of tenants – including countless stacks of papers several meters high and piles of bugs and bed bugs. They also saw a woman who left her husky dog ​​dead in a cage for eight months, or a man who liked to go to the bathroom in the bath. These people are all residents of the luxury building in the heart of New York. “We have seen everything,” Toscano said. An apartment in Manhattan before and after “passing hands” Toscano and colleagues. During a cleanup in the expensive neighborhood of the Upper West Side, the team was paid $ 18,000 to throw away bottles of urine and loads of sex toys. However, that is not the highest price. Toscano said the most expensive deal he has ever been in charge of is about $ 40,000 for a home in the state of New Jersey. Here, his team had to remove 16 tons of trash and repaint the entire house. More than work For Toscano, the interesting thing about this job is that he gets to “see the beauty of a luxury apartment” once he has dealt with the huge mess. His company also regularly receives calls from relatives to search for belongings. Therefore, in addition to discarding the furniture, they also carefully classify and store some of the belongings obtained from the apartment, in case someone wants to get it back. A New York resident who used to use the Toscano service said: “They are very focused on their work. The group of 6 of them entered the house, divided in charge of each room and cleaned according to the pre-assigned schedule ”. Toscano is often excited to see the beauty of an expensive apartment after the cleaning. Toscano said this job is more than cleaning because he himself likes to help people. In addition, he also often tells the landlord to leave during group work. “When they get back, they’re going to go crazy like ‘Wow, I can’t believe this place is home,'” he said. The hoarding disorder, which affects 2-6% of the American adult population, has no financial limits, according to the report New York Post. “Normally, when storing luxury goods, like buying 500 Prada handbags, people ‘convince themselves’ that it’s not hoarding but collecting,” said Dr. Dena Rabinowitz, director of the Institute of the Mind. Cognitive Behavioral Physics in New York, said.

Dr. Duncan MacDougall and article on his soul weighing experiment. There have been several attempts to verify the existence of the soul, notably experiments by a famous doctor, to find out how much it weighs. Strange experiment Dr. Duncan MacDougall is a wealthy and respected physician in Haverhill (Massachusetts, USA). He has his own clinic and works at a medical facility called the Cullis Consumptives’ Home, which is for end-stage cases. In 1901, he came up with a strange idea, that is to determine whether the soul has or not, and if so, how much weight. MacDougall began experimenting on six patients who had lost hope of being cured. Four people with tuberculosis, one with diabetes and one with an unidentified disease, all of which did not last long in this world. He spent a lot of time recruiting only “patient who died of a debilitating illness, death with little or no muscle movement, because in that case the weight could be kept.” equal to more perfect and any loss that happens is ready to be noted ”. To make sure there were no mistakes, he meticulously measured a person’s weight before death, even noting slight changes in sweat and urine output. When the patients are dying, their entire beds are placed on an industrial-sized Fairbanks scale, with a sensitivity of 5.6 g. Along with four other doctors, MacDougall carefully recorded the weight changes of patients before and after their deaths. For the first patient, the weight loss observed immediately after apnea was 21g. A piece in the New York Times on March 11, 1907 recorded this moment: “When life ended, the weight of the needle suddenly dropped, as if something had just separated from the body. Immediately the usual post-mortem mass losses were calculated, but still 21 g was missing. According to MacDougall, this weight loss is not possible from the evaporation of moisture and sweat through the inhalation. The amount of air in his lungs was not the reason he brought air back to the patient’s body but the needle on the scale remained the same. Wastes or urine, if released, remain in bed and can only affect weight by slowly evaporating. MacDougall thinks this is an extremely promising development, and he does a similar procedure with the rest of the patient but the results are not the same. In the third patient there was a strange change that body mass did not change immediately after death but a minute later, body weight was reduced by 21g. The team only measured results from 4 patients, 2 of whom died before they could install the device. He then repeated his experiments with 15 dogs and found that they had no change in weight at the time of death. This was completely consistent with his belief that dogs had no soul. Later, a physics teacher at the Los Angeles Polytechnic School, USA also tried to conduct a similar experiment on mice in 1917. The results were consistent with the experiment of Dr. MacDougall, there was no deviation of weight when the rats died. How real? The scale used to weigh the soul. MacDougall’s research has caused a stir through articles in The New York Times, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research and American Medicine. Many see this as evidence of the existence of the human soul, but others disagree. The limitation of the experimental subject has been criticized, while his methods are considered unscientific. For the general scientific community, the experiment has many shortcomings and has no real value. Some scientists point out that at the time of death, the lungs stop cooling the blood, causing the body temperature to rise slightly, the skin sweating – 21g in Dr. MacDougall’s experiment. At the same time, dogs do not have sweat glands, so they do not lose weight in this way after death. Despite these harsh criticisms, MacDougall defended his position, even conducting an experiment to photograph the human soul in 1911, but to no avail. After that, he almost fell into darkness, giving up experiments that proved humans have a soul, finally dying in 1920. There were also a few people who performed similar experiments over the years on animals, but MacDougal’s human experiments have never been tried or replicated since then. Does your research have any meaning? Regardless of the answer, the existence of the soul is not scientifically proven, and we will certainly never stop searching to answer one of the most important mysteries of existence. our own. Either way, the work of MacDougall still makes an interesting impression, not because of what he found (or failed to find) but because of what he “suggested” from his experiment. For many people, MacDougall’s ideas deserve to be studied and seriously discussed.