"Boron Elgar" wrote
ImStillMags wrote:

>>Ever heard of homeopathy? The same applies for homeopathic medicine,
>>use only the glass dropper, never touch the medicine
>>with the hands, it changes the chemistry and energy of the medicine.
>
> Homeopathy is a crock of shit....something else one should keep one's
> hands out of.

Much of it is but not all of it. It's based on observation, just like plant
medicines.

The terminology used in asian healing by 'eating the right food' comes off
as quackery but some of it is based in solidly testable results. Like the
chondritin/glucosamine pills and powders many now take to help control
arthritis. Back in Japan, our Japanese Doc recommended I start also eating
the shrimp tails and shells. They are simply a natural source of the same
thing and the pill form wasnt working as well for me. Also, to use as many
bone based deep broths (and not so much the canned type but more of a
consomme sort you make at home that gels). Calcium and other bone
strengthening things in there, and less salt by far when you make it at
home.

Apparently I work better with food sourced calcium, iron, and joint based
things. That is *not* unusual and totally harmless.

He's also the one that did the salt tolerance-reactive study which Don and I
were part of. I'm not sodium reactive in blood pressure, Don is if he goes
over 2,000mg a day but at 2,000mg a day or less, he has no changes. Doc
recommended we aim for 1,500mg a day for him after the study but that leaves
a little leeway for an unaccounted for 'snack'. Basically I seemed to have
pretty much a Japanese native salt tolerance while Don is more the 'needs to
keep an eye on it'.

It isnt uncommon in Asia to find the Doctor is also well schooled in
nutrition, unlike most of what I have encountered in the USA. If their
methods are a little different because they tell you to eat more liver and
fresh leafy greens vice prescribe iron pills, it's harmless. And no, they
won't tell you silly things like not mixing live veggies with your hands ;-)
They will tell you to eat a wider variety of fresh foods and not live off
boxed 'American crap' like hamburger helper.