My friendly guide Park Jay and I visited a traditional healing cafe operated by Jinsan Korean Herbal Pharmacy nearby busy Tongin Market. Our aim was to relax with medicinal herbal tea on a cool winter's day. I selected Ganggeun tea for muscular skeletal strength, knees or lower back problems. Hot tea was quietly served wth complementary healthy snacks of pumpkin seeds, dried jujube and light sweet grain cookies.
The pinewood scent and phytoncides of the building are attributed to promote healing, an antidote to the busy modern lifestyle. We quickly shed our coats inside the well-lit cafe made warm by forced heat beneath tile flooring, a modern take to the approach used by Joseon kings hundreds of years ago!
Some come to Solgaheon to rest in special red clay healing rooms or improve blood circulation in herbal foot baths. Others seek herbal treatments for disorders of digestion, circulation, muscular aches and low energy. It was time to leave all too soon!
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