Whatever comes to mind. Sometimes a story I read, sometimes something that came to me while holding my mala beads.
Thirty-seven degrees. I grabbed an iced cola. My mom called and said don't. I didn't believe her until a Chinese medicine doctor said two words: "stomach cold." After 30 days of warm water, I found out my mom was right all along.
Mouth sores, acne, sore throat, swollen gums — why does Chinese medicine call all of these the same thing? After retracing a rough week, I started understanding what my body was saying.
A friend visited from the States and felt inexplicably heavy. I brewed adzuki bean tea and talked about dampness in Chinese medicine - not mysticism, just the body speaking.