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I am pretty sure this site is a joke - there is no ordering information.

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Originally posted by filthy

Being mainstream makes it no less idiototic. And shoving one up your gastronomic exhaust......? Yeesh!

Speaking of 'mainstream,' check out traditional Chinese medicine.

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Oh, I see. I thought this thread was for natural cures that were off the beaten path. Well, there is a veritable shit-load of crazy natural cures that don't work…

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TREPANATION
July 20, 1998

Peter Halvorson has an about 1 cm-wide hole in his head. He was suffering from depression and decided to drill this hole above his forehead, near where his hairline would be if he still had a hairline, believing this hole would bring him permanent happiness.

Trepanation, by the way, is an ancient procedure that involves the
removal of a chunk of one's skull. The skin heals but the procedure
leaves a visual depression on one's dome.

Halvorson expounds on his belief in the medical basis of trepanation -- talking about pulsation, cerebral metabolism and brain blood volume -- however, he advises against self-trepanation today.

Trepanation or trephination, Halvorson says, gives him more energy, more focus, more drive. He says doctors told him his testosterone level is about that of a man in his 20s.

Halvorson estimates there are several dozen others all with their own
holes in the head.

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Whatever, it seems to have lead to this:

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ButtCandles™ are an exciting, and time honored, device for internal cleansing. We encourage you to peruse our site, read the referenced medical literature, and then make an informed decision as to whether you want to purchase our high-quality sanitary products. We stand behind all of our products and offer a 100% money back guarantee for all unused/unspoilt product.

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I don't want these turkies standing behind me.....

Butt (snicker) whereaway now, candle affictionados? The human body still has orfices as yet uncandled. Do you think a good, hot candling in the appropreate place might cure the dreaded drip?

Oh, the possibilities!

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I am pretty sure this site is a joke - there is no ordering information. (Hey - Christmas is coming and butt candles would make excellent gifts for woo friends.)

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Additionally, a growing body of psychiatrists believed lobotomy might be an effective way to treat such "psychiatric disorders" as Communism, homosexuality, nymphomania and general godlessness.

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Hypnotism is one of the weirdest and most controversial notions in the history of the mind. Even defining it is tricky. Basically, hypnotism is the art of placing another person into a trance state. What happens next depends largely on whether you're at a Las Vegas show, in a therapist's office or a prisoner of a Orwellian police state.

Hypnotism was more or less discovered by a guy named Franz Anton Mesmer, who invented something he called animal magnetism. Mesmer had a natural talent for putting people and animals into trances, which he mistakenly attributed to magnetic waves. His technique became known, predictably, as mesmerism.

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Hypnotism.

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Hypnotism is one of the weirdest and most controversial notions in the history of the mind. Even defining it is tricky. Basically, hypnotism is the art of placing another person into a trance state. What happens next depends largely on whether you're at a Las Vegas show, in a therapist's office or a prisoner of a Orwellian police state.

Hypnotism was more or less discovered by a guy named Franz Anton Mesmer, who invented something he called animal magnetism. Mesmer had a natural talent for putting people and animals into trances, which he mistakenly attributed to magnetic waves. His technique became known, predictably, as mesmerism.

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Count me among those who think that Hypnotism is a large crock except among those who are figurtivly lobotomized already.

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I think I have mentioned in the past my brother and a friend went to a hypnotist show when they were teens. My brother's friend was hypnotized at the show and my brother became interested and taught himself how to do it. While I couldn't be hypnotized, my girlfriend and my brother's friend could. There is no way either of the two were faking it.

It wasn't that difficult to hypnotize someone either. You just talk softly in a monotone telling them they are floating on a cloud and so on until they are under. Surely there must be some brain scans by now showing what the heck is going on.

When my brother told Teri, my friend, everyone was naked, she just giggled. When he told her she was on the ceiling, she totally freaked out and started kicking her legs. There is no way she was faking or just going along by suggestion. She was the only one in the room hypnotized at the time.

Later my brother hypnotized Ken and had him eat an onion telling him it was a delicious apple. Ken chomped it right down without so much as a tear. It is mind boggling to think one's mind can completely control the burning of an onion. Later Ken was really annoyed because he said he burped onions the whole day.

Try to eat an onion like it was an apple. Tell me how it went. And what would a person who was going along, even if fooling themselves, do when told they were on the ceiling? You'd say it was cool or something. Teri really freaked out.

Which says something about her not freaking out about everyone being naked. So it was no surprise she later became one of my pregnant teen age friends.

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The idea that mistletoe may help treat cancer is based on that the idea that mistletoe, like cancer, is a parasitic growth that eventually kills its host, said Edzard Ernst, a professor of complementary medicine at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth.

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In this week's Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal, Alison Finall of the department of histopathology at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and her colleagues reported on a case of a 61-year-old woman who had a tumour-like growth under her skin, brought on by mistletoe.

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Furthermore, some test tube studies suggest that mistletoe extract may actually enhance the growth of some cancers.

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The practice of bloodletting has been used by almost all cultures and societies at some point in their medical history. The controversy over the usefulness of it has been raging since the fifth century B.C.E. It was considered to be part of the treatment for practically every ailment that you can think of: asthma, spitting blood, bruises, cough, consumption, contusion, convulsions, cramps, deafness, delirium, epilepsy, giddiness, gout, whooping cough, hydrocephalus, head ache, intoxication, lethargy, lunacy, measles, palsy, rheumatism, sciatica, shortness of breath, and sore throat. It was also, though not as commonly, used as a punishment and as a form of worship to a superior power. In seventeenth century England, for example, the use of bloodletting was very popular for the treatment of hysteria. It was believed that hysteria gave rise to an accumulation of "putrid humors" which impaired the organs whose function it was to purify the blood and caused this physical affliction. Bleeding and purging were the universal remedies for these humours and so they were employed for the treatment of hysteria as well. The patient would be bled and then administered medicines that "fortified" the blood, such as iron fillings. This practice continued into the eighteenth century. The idea for bloodletting was taken from the animal world. People observed that animals self-inflicted wounds and they assumed this was for medicinal practices. They also observed similar occurrences through human forms of spontaneous bleeding such as nosebleeds, menstruation, and injury. Bloodletting was very popular from ancient times until the Middle Ages. It experienced a great vogue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Beliefs about health and disease in the eighteenth century were based on those held by the ancient Greeks. For more on the humoral theory see the section on medical blood in Bloodlines .Blood was a humor and was believed to be made up of food. The idea was that if the humors were in balance then the body was healthy and if they were out of balance the result would be disease. One of these diseases was plethora. Plethora was an over-abundance of body humors and was characterized by fevers and inflammations. It was treated by the removal of the offending humours. This removal could be brought about by inducing vomiting, starvation, and bloodletting. The patient was often starved so that the veins would become empty of food and then the blood, which had escaped into the arteries, could be absorbed. This procedure was drawn out and very uncomfortable for the patient, so bloodletting was increasingly used instead as a quick way to relieve the patient of extra blood.

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It's called hemochromatosis, Half.

And where the heck is Trish, our for-real phlebotomist, when we need her?

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