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The treatment started with a back and stomach massage. 

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At 9:00 I got a huge bowl of honey mixed with Avipathi Choornam,

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the medical powder for the pitta body type. 

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It makes me sick even just to talk about this.

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I ate the brown goo as fast as I could with water running from my eyes.

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Finally I got an awful-tasting drink.

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Doctor Arun told me the diarrhea would start at 10:20. 

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He got it wrong by five minutes.

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All this was supposed to be over by 17:00 

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but it's 18:00 now and I've gone to the toilet 18 times. 

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My lucky number.

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I was in and out of the toilet until 21:00 

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and when the doctor came into our room he gave me salty water.

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It helped a little but I had to run to the toilet again at 21:30 and 00:00. 

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At 03:00 I was starting to feel very weak.

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As I got up from the toilet I lost my consciousness 

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and at first I didn't understand what had happened.

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Kai asked me had I fainted. 

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I had been laying on the floor with my eyes open and said "No".

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This was the first time I felt fear. It was like I wasn't getting enough oxygen. 

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It took two hours for the doctor on call to come by.

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At 05:40 the doctor gave me medicine to stop the diarrhea.

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Kutajarishtam tastes just like port wine so at least something good came out of the experience. 

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After the hard diarrhea therapy I walk to the mirror 

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and expect to see a zombie. 

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On my face there's no sign of the hardship.

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My eyes are radiant and the whites shine whiter than a pearl. My skin is glowing.

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This is not the result of a standard traveller's diarrhea.