Chinese medicine has a 2000 year history, and much of it uses dried plant and animal parts as treatments. You see a lot of things like the ones pictured above. Dried scallops, various herbs, and a few things that look like they belong in a B-grade horror film.
The other side of the store had shelves filled with Ibuprofen vitamins and the like, but that did not make for a very interesting picture. I'm not drawing any conclusions on the relative popularity of Western medicine here, but the traditional remedies took up by far the majority of the shelf space.
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