Qualla: Wat Tham Krabok https://qualla.com/wat-tham-krabok en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wat Tham Krabok https://qualla.com/wat-tham-krabok Wat Tham Krabok: Introduction https://qualla.com/wat-tham-krabok/ The treatment begins with a vow. Patients at Wat Tham Krabok -- the Temple of the Bamboo Cave -- kneel before a Buddha image and take a sajja, a sacred oath that this will be their last attempt to quit. Then comes the herbal potion, a secret recipe of plants known only to the temple's monks. Then comes the vomiting. For five consecutive days, patients drink the mixture and purge, sometimes for hours, while monks chant and the tropical heat bears down on the open-air treatment area. It is not gentle. It is not clinical. Over 100,000 heroin and opium addicts have gone through this program since 1959, in a temple that was not even officially recognized as a Buddhist wat until 2012.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/4/x/e/wat-tham-krabok-wp/w4xe-wat-tham-krabok-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wat Tham Krabok: A Nun, Two Nephews, and a Cave https://qualla.com/wat-tham-krabok/ Wat Tham Krabok was established in 1957 by Mian Parnchand, a Buddhist nun known as Luang Por Yai, along with her two nephews, Chamroon and Charoen Parnchand, both ordained monks. Chamroon, a former Thai policeman turned monk, became the first abbot. The temple sits in Phra Phutth...

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