S02E11 · SCENE 22/28 · 12:55
The Chinese Restaurant · Healer's Apartment
Eckman's Diagnosis & Tea

Eckman diagnoses disharmony; prescribes tea, no hot water, no dairy.

12:55→15:33
in the episode · 2m 38s · S02E11

What happens

12:55–15:33

Eckman diagnoses George with 'disharmony' and 'invasion of heat and wind' (Chinese medicine). He forbids hot water (lukewarm only) and dairy. He references living with Eskimos plunging faces in snow. He prepares a tea with cramp bark, cleavers, and couch grass. Jerry asks Eckman to read his illegible note; Eckman reads 'Cleveland 117, San Antonio 109' (basketball scores).

WhereHealer's Apartment
DriverTor Eckman
Positionact2 · complication
ThreadGeorge's Tonsil Ordeal

Key lines

from this scene
12:56

GEORGE: Besides, what's it gonna cost me, 38 bucks?

14:07

They want to sell you their most expensive item which is unnecessary surgery.

14:34

And you're not a doctor, but you play one in reallife.

15:29

JERRY: Too much dairy? You really think I'm eating too much dairy.

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Scene DNA

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misunderstanding0.4
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Beats

14:16No hot water rule
16:48Eckman reads basketball scores

Scene in the episode

12:55–15:33
B · Jerry's Lost Joke
C · Elaine's Tongue Date

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