Cupping, very effective.

Also blood letting, painful...great results.
If you can get into that type of treatment.

Any you care to recommend, and what are approximate costs?

tb

Cupping didnt do anything for me... :(
It also made my back look extremely awful...with disease-looking like spots!! :(

Another interesting way to relieve toxins is to find a Chinese Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) doctor.

He can do acupuncture and also prescribe various "herbs" that u can take to relieve any illnesses that you might have.
Unfortunately, probably need some cooking device to boil the herbs.

The herbs can be found in one of those TCM shops which also sell stuff like dried seahorses, high priced ginseng and tiger's willy. lol

Like this:

http://www.sasmassage.com/wp-content...6/Cupping2.jpg



Its all BS. Doesn't do anything.
Might as well be selling snake oil. :p

Morely's (sp) is my favorite to the extent that I keep their number in my phone on speed dial: 8777 8888.

I've written about it several times on FT in the past.

As far as costs are concerned, ball park:

-door fee = y158
-body scub = y58 + another y30 for the sea salt scrub (they also several other exotic scrubbing products including a beer/milk mixture)
-cupping = y88 (depends on the number of cups)

There are MUCH cheaper places to get massages in Beijing, but I like to treat myself to Morely's on occasion; the oxygen room is particularly pleasant.

I guess will have to agree to disagree about the effectiveness of cupping.

This treatment , guā shā, coin scraping of the back
works well for fever.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gua_Sha.jpg

I'm thinking we might well require a new massage thread in this forums, simply because massages are one of the coolest things about China, and are often overlooked by tourists.

Good for your skin. Quite painful.

Ah yes, the BOS one. I was actually thinking Kendall Sq...

Given two of my close co-workers were doctors who practiced TCM, I've always considered giving it a whirl. Then again, still healthy...

I would advice foreigners in China to eat their food cooked.

Otherwise head towards western-style establishments where the methods of food preparation is at least of some consistent level of hygiene.

Around the same Pudong area, I would recommend Shangri-La Pudong or Ritz-Carlton Pudong, they are just next to each other.

Inside Super Brand Mall, I had the best fast-food dinners at "KungFu" on level 5 (Chinese: Zhen Gong Fu). You can't miss it, it's the one with the Bruce Lee caricature. Complete meal with rice, soup, meat and vege for under US$7.

Most of us rarely venture across the river unless we need to fly to other countries.

Except Lujiazui does have some good places to eat (aforementioned Super Brand Mall).