Are there any miraculous (or otherwise) health supplements / products, particularly for older people, that are unique to Taiwan, affordable, and sendable through the post? (something I can send my parents as a gift?)
Loads. Go to the “traditional” pharmacies (not the ones that sell genuine chinese medicine; I mean the ones selling little boxes printed with bizarre names and a picture of a fake white-coated doctor). However, are you sure you want your parents’ kidneys to crawl out of their ears and explode? 95% of stuff like that is just patent medicine … snake oil. Some of it is positively dangerous.
If your parents have some specific ailment, go to a proper chinese herbalist and ask if he can prescribe something.
Sounds scary!
I guess I’m looking for something general. Like when I was in Korea, it might have been Ginseng…
Sorry, I don’t believe in magic.
If there was really a cure for baldness, obesity, old age, what have you, the whole world would be slim, young and have a full head of hair.
The number of people still looking for magical cures just blows my mind.