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The photo says it all. Toilet tissue in the foreground. Fading light in the background. You probably can’t see it, but the woman sitting on the mattress – Rebekah, my wife – is despondent, worn out; deflated. This is what a day spent clearing out your bowels will do to you, especially if part of your treatment involves a complete fast on the day of evacuation.
My underwear’s halfway down my butt when I’m told to stop. “Keep on,” says one of the men who are about to massage me. He winds then ties a thin white piece of string around my waist. A longer and thicker section of material falls to the ground over my genitals.
Have you ever burped up ghee? It’s bad enough drinking a cup of it every morning let alone having it repeat on you for the next 24 hours. Not that we’ve got anyone to blame but ourselves. We chose this. To put ourselves through an eight-day ayurvedic treatment recommended to us by several people here in Mysore.
