Moonbathing!

Sunbathing is good

Of course in controlled amounts!

The Ultraviolet B (UVB) rays trigger your skin to produce Vitamin D, also exposure to bright morning sunlight regulates your circadian rhythm and Sunlight prompts the brain to release serotonin, which boosts mood and helps counter depression!

You of course knew all this! But do you know what is advantage of MOON BATH!

Nothing absolutely of course! But there was a ‘Doctor’ who used to sell the MOON! In fact he was known as the MOON DOCTOR!

“Doctor” Weisleder, as he called himself, was a one-time sockmaker who worked out of a dark and dirty tavern in Germany.

It was in the 19th-century and in Germany and the medical charlatan was known as the “Moon Doctor of Berlin”!

“Doctor” Weisleder was his name by the way!

Of course he was not a real medical doctor; he was a former sockmaker (or hosier) and heoperated his wildly popular practice out of a dingy tavern in Berlin!

Weisleder claimed he could cure absolutely any incurable disease using lunar rays (moonlight).

Then again; the treatment was ‘successful’ because it was SIMPLE!

Patients would gather by the hundreds at his tavern clinic. Then Weisleder would instruct them to expose and extend their affected body part (e.g., an aching arm, leg, or joint) toward the moon!

He claimed the lunar light would pull the disease out of the body!

Despite the unscientific nature of his work, his boozy tavern clinic drew massive, desperate crowds who were eager to enjoy a beer while waiting for a “miracle” cure!

In any case the patients who used to visit him had lots of faith in his ability and many times that works wonders! He would take the patient to a room window and expose the part to the moonlight while chanting something which only he could hear!

Amazed!? Well there is more!

Funnily his wife would do the same to the women from another window on the opposite side of the house!
No one stopped once to think how two opposite windows can both get moonlight at the same time!

That’s the power of faith and maybe Placebo!

Then again if you have real talent like metro man E Sreedharan then you don’t need any placebo!

Now stop Moonbathing and sleep!

Shubh ratri…

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