Chinese Voodoo?

Last night was Thursday night, which means that everyone is studying for the end of the week exam for their respective Chinese language classes. My night was going as planned, full of lots of studying and what not. Then I heard a ruckus going on outside my door, so I decided to go check out the commotion. There was a large group of CET students studying together outside of my door. I resisted the temptation to go hang out for quite a while, but when the noise had all but disappeared, I went out into the hall and found only a few CET students left. I started studying for a while, and then Dan's (my neighbor) roommate came by and offered to bring me some medicine for my leg. First of all, my roommate and Muh's roommate both already gave me bottles of the same medicine. But, Dan's roommate could not be swayed in his devotion to healing my leg.
Ten minutes later, my roommate showed up and helped me with my studying. Soon there after, Dan's roommate arrived with his magic leg potion. So, still very eager, Dan's roommate (Bai is his name by the way) proceeded to open the ruby bottle. The stuff smelled exactly like those candy hearts that you get on Valentine's Day. I soon had a lathering of Valentine candy juice on my ankle and an eager Bai rubbing my ankle vigorously. In the middle of this experiment in healing, Bai realized that my roommate had a small bottle of bai jiu (rice alcohol, the worst tasting substance on earth) on his desk. The obvious next step was to pour some into the cap of the bai jiu bottle and light it on fire. I'm not going to say that it didn't look cool, because frankly, it did, but the whole time I thought that this was yet another healing technique. I wasn't too excited to have flaming alcohol thrown onto my injured ankle. Thankfully, it was just for atmosphere. Anyway, just thought that I would share my strange evening with everyone. If anyone needs Chinese leg healing solution stuff, I have four bottles. Also, I finally got a picture of my roommate, or I should say Muh took the picture. Anyway, the picture is on my Webshots page in the Beijing album. Enjoy!