A spoonful of Tibetan honey

Want a Tibetan prescription to lose weight? Mix a special kind of honey with hot water, and drink the mixture three times a day.

So says, Tsewang Tengpa, director of the outpatient department of a prestigious traditional Tibetan medicine hospital in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region.

When he revealed the secret recipe to a German audience during a lecture on Tibetan medicine in Berlin on Monday, he provoked a round of curious questions.