After I came back a little sick from my trip to Japan, I guess I must have passed my cold to my mom. I gave her some of my medicine I used when I was in Japan. It probably contained the same ingredients that we use in America (I couldn’t read the active ingredients that were written in Kanji) but it was in powder form. The reasoning for the Japanese to make it this way is that it probably gets aborbed into our blood stream faster. It’s no big deal but I just thought it was a little different because in America all our medication is usually in the convenient pill or capsule format.