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⌈ Secret Post #3128 ⌋

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[X-Men]


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[Hayley Atwell]


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[Infamous]


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[Tokyo Mew Mew]


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[Peep Show]


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[Rhett & Link/Good Mythical Morning]


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[Brooklyn Nine Nine]


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[Lava]


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Comments

Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever tried it? Anything "alternative" you've done for your physical/mental/spiritual health. How'd it work? Did you believe it?

Herbal remedies? Acupuncture? Homeopathy? Holistic medicine? Some sort of spiritual/chakra cleansing? Meditation?

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

I've tried acupuncture for my chronic pain and it worked very well, but was ultimately too expensive.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

Reading about acupuncture and how it's supposed to realign energies in your body or whatever, it sounds like total bogus. But people I've known who have gone for back pain have sworn it helped. I get back pain too so I'm kind of curious to try it now. Even if it's just placebo effect, I'll take it if it works!

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

fuck outta here with that homeopathy shit

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[kaijinscendre]

So, is that a no and no?

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

I do meditation to help with anxiety. I'd never consider it a substitute for any real help/medication/therapy should I need it, but I do feel meditation at very least is a legitimate relaxation technique, and if it helps me feel more centered and in control of my life, I think that's worth something.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

my mom knows riki

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[kallanda_lee]

Yeah, and I think it's a load of bull?

Like, when my parents though they had exhausted psychologists on me, the tried other weird shit, including somebody who did like this scrying thing (I kid you not), a homeopath, and this dude who was supposed to do hypnotism. Turned out he's either rather shit or I'm unhypnotizable (but granted, at that point people tring o get into my head was the last thing I wanted, but hey).


none of that shit ever worked. Though to be fair, nor did the psychologists.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

Meditation is the only thing that helps me to sleep.

Also, I had severe adverse reactions to certain medicaments in the past so I try to search for non-chemical alternatives when I get sick.

If I get worse I do go to a doctor and stick to their prescription tho, but so far I had to do that only once.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[solticisekf]

Yeah, some of these things work. However I'm mystified by homeopathy. I took something for my acne, didn't see any difference.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[herpymcderp]

I've had acupuncture a few times. I didn't really find that it did anything and I'm not sure I'd recommend it.

I've had regular chiropractic care though, and found it really effective at controlling headaches and tension. It's also quite relaxing so I'd recommend that to anyone.

I saw a herbalist once which did shit all for the problem I was experiencing, so there's also that.

I have had mixed results with people who used touch healing on me. It's been extremely effective for small things (IV soreness, circulation issues) but I'm also not entirely sure I'd recommend that.

Meditation/music therapy is something I would recommend to anyone as well.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

I've done, would you call it "soft" medicines? Meditation and some New Age stuff, but only for the purpose of relieving anxiety, and generally relaxing. If you can get that feeling of "centering your energies" or whatever, and come out of it feeling relaxed and more in control of your life, then I think maybe there's some worth in that. At any rate, it can't hurt, as long as it doesn't substitute for real medical care. Even for serious conditions, I think most of them are safe to do in addition to real care, so if they make you feel mentally stronger or happier, why not?

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

I tried medication as an alternative to acupuncture and homeopathy. It really helped. Or have some homemade laudanum, that also helps.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. Herbal home therapies cured my chronic candida overgrowth. I also rely on chiropractic care when I have pain that seems likely could be remedied through chiropractic.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, some herbal remedies actually have scientific basis. Obviously, go to the doctor and get real medicine, but I'm under the impression that for example various teas can have varying health benefits? And some pre-modern herbal remedies have proven to work, iirc (though probably not as efficiently as a modern pill).

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[vethica]

I got acupuncture a few times. I have no idea if it helped or not, but it was relaxing and made me feel cool and adventurous, so there's that. I'd like to try it again sometime.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

Start here:

http://www.quackwatch.com

That said, I am not averse to supplements/various OTC pills, within reason. I mean, not the homeopathy sugar pills, obviously, but the ones made by a reputable company, from actual plants and such. But 99.99999999% of "alternative medicine" is pure quackery, so you've got to be discerning in what you're buying.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[caerbannog]

*angrily remembers the time she was after very high dosage of vitamin d (30,000iu a pill pls) and trusted the chemist to give it to her and got home to discover they picked out a fucking homeopathic one even after the immune disorder AND URGENCY had been explained and had to go back and get a refund (and a mgr apology) so she could buy the REAL stuff*

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

Siberian ginseng nearly made my adrenals fail. It's effective as a stuimulant but way too much for my weak body at the time.

Chaste tree really helps my terrible PMS (angst, tension, low immune system).

Hops, valerian and passionflower are all good for sleepiness in slightly different ways.

Meditation has helped my insomnia and anxiety AMAZINGLYYYYYYYYY.

Homeopathy can fuck right off.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

The closest I've ever come is massage and chiropractors for my back problems. Which have actual medical basis, so not entirely alternative.

Mostly I think it is bunk.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[cbrachyrhynchos]

There are some things I'm trying that I wouldn't have tried a year ago.

Yes, a lot,: very long

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I've tried a lot of it. My mother got into this about fifth grade.

Herbal remedies and dieting. That worked for a yeast infection. But, with herbs like with real meds, you can't just take one and expect it to work. Echinacea you should take 3 every six hours. (It used to be six, but they've made it stronger) also get it from a legitimate source. Puritans Pride, San Francisco Herb Company, Nature's Sunshine Products.

therapeutic grade oils. well, that depends on what you're using them for. I've used them for everything from food poisoning (clove, yes, works, yay!) cinnamon helps for bacterial, viral and fungal infections, also powerful, beware, one drop is more than enough. Lavender is pretty much good for burns and everything else. Rosemary helps with anxiety. There are blends that cleanse your aura and enhance moods. The only thing that hasn't worked is for the migraines, but smells and migraines are a bad idea.

Massage goes along with the oils. I find it helps but I haven't done more than raindrop massage which is actually really good for boosting the immune system. I've also done an emotional release which helped me stop blocking my emotions but now I have to learn how to deal with them again.

Jaffe Mellor Technique (JMT) and 14 muscle balance. this you have to believe in for it to work. It's basically brain re-patterning and energy manipulation. I've found it helped, but wasn't focused enough for me.

Homeochords, err, vibrationally attuned water. Yes. this works, but you also have to believe in it. It takes time though. It helped put my fibromaylgia and epsteen bar into remission.

Homeopaths. These depend on the maker. So you better make sure you have a good one. Which leads to talk to your chiropractor, who I wish I could go back to, because my neck is awful and he helps, a lot.

TENS machines, good for pain and just about anything that is programmed into it. The good machines are only available with a prescription. However, if you are sensitive to any sort of electrical current just be aware it's low current but strong.

Tuning forks, tried it, didn't get enough experience to say it really did anything. I wanted to do more, haven't had a chance.

Light therapy. Light therapy is colored lights at specific frequencies. You can make them with theatrical light film and tungsten flashlights. Red is hot, blue is cold, green and magenta are neutral, that sort of thing. This is very powerful stuff. I wouldn't use it with anything else.

Solfeggio tones meditation, I used this if I feel my head is stuffed with energy. It opens the chakras and helps release it. I use different tones for different parts of the body and have used a crystal bowls chakra chant to open them all.

Positive reinforcement or emotional replacement. This is my go to since all I needed was a book and I can do it in five minutes. I've had the most success with it. Basically, you are taking negative emotions, releasing them and replacing them with positive emotions. The idea is that negative emotions damage your body and cause pain. By releasing them, you can repair your body. It's helped with my depression, anxiety. I had a very tight jaw and that no longer is in pain.

A good half of these are dependent on frequencies (even to some extent the oils). If you believe matter is made of up of different frequencies then other frequencies should affect them.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

No. I don't believe in it, because most "alternative medicine" is at best the placebo effect at work and it still sucks that you're paying to have smoke blown up your ass. No thanks, I don't have money to spare for that sort of thing. At worst, you have no idea what you're taking/doing and how useful or harmful it is, because it hasn't undergone a proper scientific examination.

Re: Alternative medicine/therapy

[(Anonymous)]

Um, stuff like plain unpasteurized yogurt up my vag and drinking lots of unsweetened cranberry juice and celery-seed tea (which is a diuretic and also can stop bacteria making themselves at home in your bladder) for yeast infections and utis, mint oil rubbed on the bridge of my nose/forehead for headaches (but if strong scents trigger headaches for you don't do this) tea-tree/melaleuca oil on minor scrapes and acne (and when I was little, to get rid of lice, but don't use a plastic nit comb or it'll melt,) and in concentrations higher than 5% in hair rinses is supposed to help tame dandruff, but presumably only drandruff caused by yeast/bacteria, since it's a drying oil and likely to make dry-scalp dandruff/dry skin worse. Various herb teas with honey, or ginger and lemon and honey, for sore throats/colds, and, before I had dental insurance, clove oil on my gums for toothache.

But I think a lot of people have the mindset that natural=harmless and good for you and also more is better, which=fuck no. Also, essential oils are super concentrated, and some of them are correspondingly dangerous. Just like conventional medicine, it is possible to OD/poison yourself. (Remembering when I bought some wintergreen oil to use as flavoring--never fucking do this.)