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Post by tzarine on Jun 23, 2019 12:40:36 GMT -5
sprite those folks were definitely not native american
webs, ohmygod asmr is just awful
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jun 24, 2019 5:59:57 GMT -5
ASMR - let's make quiet annoying noises because we think they're going to soothe everyone around us instead of annoying them. I had to google ASMR. Your reaction sounds like mine to supposedly therapeutic drumming. It does my head in. I like some drumming, but....
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Post by treehugger on Jun 24, 2019 10:44:32 GMT -5
It's actually a Native American ritual hut used for purification. Pre-Colombian natives of the Americas used many native rituals to heal and worship. It's been adopted and abused by quacks to fake spirituality to a dangerous extent. People have died because of ignorance. I did one in a group a few years ago with a Lakota elder, it was a pretty awesome experience.
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Post by canayangel on Jun 30, 2019 23:48:43 GMT -5
My only experience with a homeopathic practitioner probably saved my life! I was in Cuzco, so weak i could barely walk, and there was an American woman at the hostel who was a homeopathic practitioner who noticed my distress. She offered some pills, but first took my pulse.... and immediately told me to get myself to the hospital! She called a travellers clinic for me, they sent an ambulance, and i spent three days in the hospital with altitude sickness, bladder infection, etc. before heading home early.
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Post by sprite on Jul 1, 2019 3:21:25 GMT -5
thank heavens she wasn't religious about her homeopathy!
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Post by tzarine on Aug 4, 2019 14:43:23 GMT -5
essential oils do not cure cancer just stop
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 4, 2019 17:46:03 GMT -5
I finally found a wonderful use for the essential oil I had been given as a gift from a purveyor of such: to de-stink my hiking boots, which had been sitting, wet with river water, in my hot car for two days. It was magical.
The other thing I have to say about essential oils is that I was stressing at a self-serve check-in kiosk at the airport in Cabo San Lucas, and the woman in line behind me offered me some lavender oil. I think that is peak Cabo San Lucas.
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Post by tucano on Aug 5, 2019 1:22:51 GMT -5
Essential oils smell nice but that's it.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Aug 5, 2019 1:28:55 GMT -5
Essential oils smell nice but that's it. Tea tree oil is one of the ones that seems to do more than just smell (nice is debatable). After loads of episodes of nits in the early years of primary school quite a few of the parents of the girls with longer hair made up sprays with tea tree oil and found it worked well to keep the hair insects away.
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Quackery
Aug 5, 2019 1:43:55 GMT -5
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Post by tucano on Aug 5, 2019 1:43:55 GMT -5
Yes, thinking about it tea tree is one that has an effect. Eucalyptus is good for colds. And citrus smells always make me feel more awake.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 5, 2019 4:30:38 GMT -5
I think people use eucalyptus oil for fleas, too? Not to put on the animal, but maybe to isolate the fleas to a certain part of the house... I have a vague memory of a group house where we did this successfully.
Maybe this is a case of "people are assuming that because something is useful for one thing, it is therefore magic and will be good for everything."
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 5, 2019 6:43:36 GMT -5
Lemon myrtle oil works on itchy bites and also as an insect repellant.
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Post by sprite on Aug 5, 2019 14:02:19 GMT -5
i use tea tree for odour control in shoes. i use lavender for air freshening, especially after bad bathroom episodes. I also find it calming on my pillow, but if someone offered it to me in the middle of a technology breakdown, i might choke them to death on the bottle.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 5, 2019 16:31:09 GMT -5
... i use lavender for air freshening, especially after bad bathroom episodes. I also find it calming on my pillow, but if someone offered it to me in the middle of a technology breakdown, i might choke them to death on the bottle. I found it hilarious - actually it did work quite well to de-stress me, but just because it was so absurd. Another absurd thing I'd like to mention is that there is something called a Salt Cave in the basement of a building near my office. I get the impression that you pay them money to sit in a 1970's office building basement that's been filled with pink salt? Whyyyyyy
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Post by poppy on Aug 5, 2019 16:48:46 GMT -5
Salt rooms are supposed to be helpful with the respirotry system, some people claim it is fantastic. Must remember to ask younger daughter how her session in one went. Guessing it wasn't over the top fantastic as she hasn't suggested I go along.
Tea tree oil is my go to whenever I have an itch, best stuff out for bite attacks. Eucalyptus great for destuffing the nose. Lavender is suppose to be good for sleeping - use to put some on the pillow of my kids to help them relax - did it work have no idea really.
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Quackery
Aug 5, 2019 18:31:18 GMT -5
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Post by Phar Lap on Aug 5, 2019 18:31:18 GMT -5
i use tea tree for odour control in shoes. A tea bag placed in the toe area overnight keeps footwear fresh and keeps away nasty foot odour. I don't recommend using the tea bag for a cuppa after shoe freshening.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 5, 2019 19:58:54 GMT -5
Salt rooms are supposed to be helpful with the respirotry system, some people claim it is fantastic. Some people also liked "Cats." Well, I'll keep an open mind about it! I'm just skeptical about everything in the neighborhood where I work... way more money than sense.
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Post by tucano on Aug 6, 2019 1:30:51 GMT -5
Revising my statement to 'Essential oils are great but don't cure cancer!
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 6, 2019 7:18:06 GMT -5
Two of my normally sensible friends have pink salt lamps. I have no idea why.
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Post by sprite on Aug 6, 2019 13:20:41 GMT -5
I have no idea what the science says, but they are kind of pretty.
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Post by poppy on Aug 6, 2019 16:15:48 GMT -5
Two of my normally sensible friends have pink salt lamps. I have no idea why. I have one which I never use, given as a gift. I think they are suppose to help with respirtory problems like the salt rooms. Though in saying that I have a friend who has several in her home. As she is deaf and has an implant she uses them in the hope that may help with the wires and gadgetry in her head. Her belief even if it is a placebo it is doing something.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 6, 2019 20:15:58 GMT -5
I don't understand how salt lamps can help your lungs, or an implant? But yes, if she's feeling better then cool, even if it's just the placebo effect.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 7, 2019 11:54:01 GMT -5
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Aug 8, 2019 4:14:41 GMT -5
I don't want to click that link, the headline is bad enough
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Post by tzarine on Aug 14, 2019 17:22:32 GMT -5
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Post by sprite on Aug 15, 2019 14:58:04 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Sept 3, 2019 22:13:14 GMT -5
this: "before the oil is bottled, each batch is energetically cleared using palo santo & sage. then it is vibrationally attuned using a 528 hz tuning fork & other shamanic tools. finally, the oil is blessed w reiki healing energy and deeksha, the indian oneness blessing"
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Post by groo on Sept 3, 2019 22:40:14 GMT -5
BP and Chevron have always been very careful with their product.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 8, 2019 10:52:05 GMT -5
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Post by Webs on Oct 8, 2019 12:22:36 GMT -5
I don't understand how salt lamps can help your lungs, or an implant? But yes, if she's feeling better then cool, even if it's just the placebo effect. Salt lamps are supposed to pull the moisture from the air making it less humid and easier to breathe. However, you would need a salt lamp the size of the room, running full time and never leave to have any real affect. If you already live in a dry climate it will do nothing. This is why people with asthma were recommended to go live in Arizona and Nevada during the 1950s and 60s.
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