Written by JD Noble Water Read in Vietnamese

Medicinal Name: Fructus citri Sarcodactylis

Botanical Name: Citrus medica L. var. Sarcodactylis Swingle

Common Name: (Ch: Fo Shou, Ja: bushukan), Finger citron, Buddha Hand citron

Use: in Traditional Chinese Medicine, as a sacrificial offering, in tangy sweet candies, and popular as ornamental bonsai.

Giáng Kiết Tường translated to English  Read in Vietnamese

Phan thi Bich Hang was born and grew up in a small remote village of Khanh Hoa, in Yen Khanh district, and of Ninh Binh province. In 1990, at the tender age of 17, she was bitten by a wild dog and went into a coma for 3 days and nights. When she came out unscathed from the long unconsciousness, she suddenly realized that she has the ability to actually “communicate with the underworld”. Seventeen years since then, she had seen, heard, and communicated with the deceased people. She helped discover the remains of over 8000 soldiers who died (missing at war) and their bodies were never found, along with over a thousand other dead people whom she was hired to find. Among these, there was the remains of a Vu Thi Kinh, younger sister of Professor Tran Phuong (alias Vu Van Dung), who is the current Chancellor/Director at Hanoi University of Business and Technology. We have the chance to interview Phan thi Bich Hang - the famous afterlife psychic, during the “Trai Dan Chan Te Bat Do” last March at the Linh Thang Temple, in Di Linh district, Lam Dong province.