Healing and health news
Jan. 19th, 2006 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trystinnI tend to think of myself as a realistic and a pragmatist, yet someone who chooses to wear rose-colored glasses. Frankly, the view is often better through them. I've been put on an estrogen supplement, which is the pragmatism portion of the above. The rose-colored glasses comes in where I've decided to eat tofu daily, despite so much research that seems to prove it does little, but I'm going to do it anyway. Somewhat because I really adore Miso soup and needed an excuse to make huge batches on a weeky basis and partly because it gives me some tiny reassurance that I'm doing something, that some part of healing is within my power and not limited to a physician's prescription pad.
I also drink gallons a week of nettle tea, which either works incredibly well or is the best placebo I've yet found to trick my metabolism into burning glucose, giving me more energy and makes losing weight easier. Either way, I reap the benefit, so I'm content. I'm sure others have similar experiences, we're not really sure why it works, just that it does and so we remain committed to the process.
So on that note: I had a thing for Victorian novels a few years back and adored how everyone went to the Coast to "take the waters" for their health. Apparently, they were right! Seems inhaling saline solution has been proven to show a marked improvement in cystic fibrosis patients, so perhaps there's something to these older remedies after all.
I also drink gallons a week of nettle tea, which either works incredibly well or is the best placebo I've yet found to trick my metabolism into burning glucose, giving me more energy and makes losing weight easier. Either way, I reap the benefit, so I'm content. I'm sure others have similar experiences, we're not really sure why it works, just that it does and so we remain committed to the process.
So on that note: I had a thing for Victorian novels a few years back and adored how everyone went to the Coast to "take the waters" for their health. Apparently, they were right! Seems inhaling saline solution has been proven to show a marked improvement in cystic fibrosis patients, so perhaps there's something to these older remedies after all.
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Date: 2006-01-19 09:47 pm (UTC)Who would've thunk it?
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Date: 2006-01-19 09:50 pm (UTC)See, pushing your siblings off the dock all those years ago was theraputic!
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Date: 2006-01-19 09:56 pm (UTC)I don't live near the ocean. I was thinking of something a little, ahem, closer to home.
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Date: 2006-01-19 10:00 pm (UTC)But yet, salt water close at hand is MUCH better!
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Date: 2006-01-19 10:18 pm (UTC)I find it a source of ongoing hilarity to watch modern science 'discover' what the old knowings passed down from long ago.
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Date: 2006-01-20 06:35 pm (UTC)I then add cold water to taste and drink over ice. I make a gallon at a time.
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Date: 2006-01-22 04:57 am (UTC)How much are you drinking each day, and where did you find out about this?
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Date: 2006-01-22 06:48 pm (UTC)We don't buy our nettle from a commercial source, we buy from local suppliers, including Paul Beyerl's Rowan Tree Church/Hermit's Grove [Urtica dioica]. Give me a few days to track down the genus for you from our other sources.
One of our coveners underwent the Ravencroft Herbalism course (roughly two years, very practical-based system) and heard about it. I drink roughly a gallon a day on good days, a quart on days I'm slacking.
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Date: 2006-01-19 10:55 pm (UTC)BTW, since you're trying similar methods, I use this for nasal saline irrigation, with good results:
http://www.unimedprod.com/index.shtml
I don't usually plug, but this stuff has done wonders for my sinuses and such.
*hugs*
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Date: 2006-01-19 11:01 pm (UTC)Living on a windy isle, where even the tree trunks grow moss - allergies to mold and pollen are almost disabling.
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