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[Water Set] Silver #255 - Clinical Explanation
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mobius
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 		Just remembered my first failed attempt a week ago was
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hang over


PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:30 am
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BBuck
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Kradlum wrote:
If the characters missing strokes spell out Ishi rather than shi (i'm not sure since the I should be the same height as the h if that were true), that would indicate that there is another character to add to the ones we have - a character with just a single stroke that has been removed to produce the blank column.

Is there a character with a single stroke?


Yes: yi1, which means "one".

PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:58 am
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atari5200
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 		toification
My roommate notes that the word "tonify" is frequently used in chinese medicine. For example, if one had certain stomach troubles one might take specific herbs to "tonify one's spleen qi." Now, I'm not recommending tonify as an answer, but it may mean that the tone chart is a pointer toward chinese medicine. My current thought is that if traditional chinese medicine has a two word explanation for the cause of a hangover, that might be a good guess although perhaps a mite simplistic given the assumed difficulty of the card.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:56 am
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domroberts
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 		Re: toification
atari5200 wrote:
My roommate notes that the word "tonify" is frequently used in chinese medicine. For example, if one had certain stomach troubles one might take specific herbs to "tonify one's spleen qi." Now, I'm not recommending tonify as an answer, but it may mean that the tone chart is a pointer toward chinese medicine. My current thought is that if traditional chinese medicine has a two word explanation for the cause of a hangover, that might be a good guess although perhaps a mite simplistic given the assumed difficulty of the card.


I've tried a lot of the hangover words and clues as solves a while back with no success. However I do still think this card has something to do with Chinese Medicine.

I also noted that crossing out and joining the incorrect characters (ages ago, just forgot to post the thing!) made the word "ILL" twice, of sorts.

Can anyone take this card and our thoughts to a friendly local chinese doctor? They seem to be sprung up all over the place nowadays...

Dom

PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:00 pm
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Ringtail
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 		Just a thought guys, considering the title is clinical, could this not mean...

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That the writing is Chinese Medical Shorthand?


PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:37 pm
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Cinana
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 		Following the coordinate system that Atari started, I see a couple more differences.
*I will be repeating some of others posts, but am putting it all in one spot.*

Missing strokes: Which spell out "shi" (already posted)
1,5 2,5 3,1 3,5 4,5 5,1 5,3 5,4 5,5 5,7 5,8 5,9
6,1 6,3 6,5 6,9 7,1 7,3 7,5 7,7 7,8 7,9 8,1 8,3
8,5 8,7 9,1 9,3 9,5 9,7 9,8 9,9

different colors: *some have been posted* however, when I enlarged my card and did a high quality print I came up with a couple others.

Dark red: 3,1 6,3 9,5 (all same character) *Ones I saw
pink: 1,11 7,3 (7,3 has missing stroke)
baby blue: 4,7
dark blue: 6,5 9,1 (both missing stroke)
(pink, baby blue and dark blue already posted)


Because we are looking at a background picture of possibly a cutting board, and some Gingko confirms that we are working with a chinese therapy (previously posted)
How far have we delved into therapy regarding gingko? Can we somehow find something about what happens when we "miss" an ingredient for a therapy, and/or if an ingredient is "the wrong color"?

Feng shi just popped into my head. That is another avenue to persue. You have a wrong color, missing item, and it is believed it can make you ill.

Off to work. can't do any research on this yet. Thoughts anyone?

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Kradlum
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 		I just tried
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wine tasting

to no avail.

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jayito
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 		Thinking along the alcoholic lines I tried:

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pútáo jiÇ" (The last character is a "u" with a "v" on top, and it is the pinyin for chinese grape wine), putao jiu (so without the accents), and grape wine. Thought as it had something to do with pinyin, and putao sounds a bit like potato... cluching at straws? Me?


But no luck Crying or Very sad
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Choggler
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 		I am a doctor and my partner is chinese - if we can't solve it together what chance do others have?

I am currently trying to type in causes of taste disturbance but with no luck so far Sad

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Kradlum
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 		I tried
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potato alcohol and amyl alcohol
last night.

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Rand0m
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Kradlum wrote:
I tried
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potato alcohol and amyl alcohol
last night.
And you lived to tell the tale? Laughing
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jayito
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 		I just stupidly wasted a try on:

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chinese lettuce! As well as looking at different permutations and the pinyin - but no suitable others were two words and I didn't feel like wasting a try on chinese leaf - it has to be more involved than that, doesn't it?


Random, I know, but has anyone else been wondering about the singificance of what looks like some lettuce on perhaps a chopping board in the backgroud? I've read the whole thread and I didn't see it mentioned, so please don't trout me! Very Happy
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republicof1
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 		i own the card and im gonna try a few thing based on what im about to say but could all this be based on the lion-eating poem found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den.

after all art expert Aiko is the desighner of this one!

the end of it asks what is the explainationtion

perhapse this is the question that we need to answer



++++++++++

just tried
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black death, stone dead, stone drunk

but all failed
hmmm.....
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i was thinking along the lines of another term for rigamortis


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Vivixect
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 		Just got first solve Very Happy

Here's a hint for you guys:

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The answer is very hard. You're so close you can smell it.


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yggdrasila
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 		very, very well done, vivi. your hint got me #2 Smile

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