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thanks

And while my chiropractor does occasionally believe in woowoo stuff (sigh), she’s also pretty good at things like “your shoulder’s hurting because your infraspinatus and superspinatus muscles are both irritated, I’m going to massage them and then put ice on them, and after that let’s talk about how you sit while you’re typing.”

“I will never scoff at chiropractic medicine. At 10 years old I feel asleep on my parents bed for a nap. Sleeping with my neck bent to the left got me ’stuck’ that way for hours. I was completely unable to move my head back to a normal posture without incredible pain. After a visit to the family doctor (who also practiced chiropractic medicine) cracked my neck , I was instantly back to normal without any side affects.”

At around a similar as Theramansi was, I also got the same kind of kink in my neck. Theramansi is right, it really is very painful. I remember after Sunday school one day the parent of one of the other kids sat me down to try to help. He would slowly rock my head and then suddenly give it a sharp jerk, repeating this for I don’t know how long. I don’t know if this is chiropracy or not but it was a painful and horrible experience for me. I remember everyone around watching while I somehow managed not to cry despite being terrified that he would break my neck. At the end of the experience I was absolutely no better off. Luckily there were no side effects and eventually the problem went away on its own.

Sorry for the anecdote but Theramansi’s post brought up these memories and I had to share them. ~|-<

For those into home remedies, if you ever have an abscessed tooth and have to wait thru the weekend for treatment, slosh some tequila around the tooth for a few minutes. THAT will kill the pain,,,for a little while.
Caution: it’s a good idea to expel the tequila and save it. Ingesting will also work but after a while you run out of tequila.

For some reason, whiskey doesn’t work nearly as well.

Whisky is, however, very good for treating sore throats.

I sense a much-needed research project here. Care to collaborate on the grant application?

Let’s see . . . we’d need lab space in a reputable university (that’s the most expensive part of any research, BTW!), much whisky and tequila (I suggest one of us needs to be sited in Mexico, and the other in Scotland, in order to ensure consistent quality of our raw material), a couple of PhD students to do the grunt work, and a ready supply of guinea pigs – er, I mean undergraduate volunteers.

. . . the white willow, which, of course, gives us salicin, and then salicylic acid – aspirin.

Sorry to be pedantic, but aspirin is an ester of salicylic acid – acetyl salicylic acid – not the free acid itself.

I’m all in favour of research on medicinal plants, because yes, there are many, many good medicines to be derived from them. But there HAS to be some sort of regulation! Just slapping some plants in a capsule and saying it improves your Total Wellbeing is NOT good enough.

Hear, hear!

Ear candling? Why is that on there? I’ve tried it and it works great if you get good ones. Totally clears out your ears and you can actually hear better afterwards.

Pardon?

Re: headaches. I’ve had my head squeezed a few times when I was back in university, and it does seem to work depending on the type of headache. It wouldn’t help my tension headaches that crept up my neck into my skull, but it did help the pounding-behind-the-eyes headaches–I suspect it had something to do with the pressure and release allowing blood vessels to dilate (a vasodilator to offset the vasoconstriction of headaches)??????? Bet there’s a paper on this treatment method somewhere…I’m mildly curious as to whether it is a placebo effect or something more.

Edit: Jeffersonian beat me to it.