RunningAHEAD - Topic: "What do you do the night before the race to get a good nights sleep." (page 4)

Runnergabe

Along for the Ride

posted: 8/3/2007 at 5:05 PM
modified: 8/3/2007 at 5:06 PM

Right, but there are for example all the different tribes all over the world that use potentially toxic plants to their advantage. They probably found out by trial and error - but that's all they use. A lot of things depend on the dose. Modified: I just thought that their mortality rates are probably overall not too hot ... ... I am now ending my participation in the discussion school medicine vs. homeopathy. Cool

Need to shower and go to work (for my pharmaceutical company Evil grin

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rockenmamaof5

posted: 8/3/2007 at 5:05 PM

Quote from zoom-zoom on 8/3/2007 at 5:01 PM:

What kind of freaks me out is the people who give their babies a teething aid that contains Belladonna...aka DEADLY Nightshade. Hello?! That's some potentially toxic stuff. We had a Nightshade plant growing next to our house as kids. My parents always stressed how dangerous the berries of that plant were. k

I'm so glad I'm probably more paranoid about what I give my kids then myself! Some people just don't care to be informed I guess Sad

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 8/3/2007 at 5:06 PM

Quote from Trent on 8/3/2007 at 5:03 PM:

ZZ. You do know that belladonna is closely related to tomatoes and potatoes don't you...

Yeah...and I'm closely related to bonobos and chimps (perhaps not as closely as GWB, heh), but it's all relative. Wink

k

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Runnergabe

Along for the Ride

posted: 8/3/2007 at 5:07 PM

Quote from zoom-zoom on 8/3/2007 at 5:06 PM:

Yeah...and I'm closely related to bonobos and chimps (perhaps not as closely as GWB, heh), but it's all relative. k

Now THAT is taking the discussion to a whole new level! Big grin

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 8/3/2007 at 5:08 PM

Quote from rockenmamaof5 on 8/3/2007 at 5:05 PM:

I'm so glad I'm probably more paranoid about what I give my kids then myself! Some people just don't care to be informed I guess

Yeah, my folks always used a little blackberry brandy rubbed on our gums when we were teething. Dane never really had issues with teething (he'd pretty much wake up one morning with 6 new teeth...WTF?), but that's what we had planned to use if he'd had pain...that or a little Anbesol. k

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 8/3/2007 at 5:08 PM

Quote from Runnergabe on 8/3/2007 at 5:07 PM:

Now THAT is taking the discussion to a whole new level!

I'm good at that. Big grin

k

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

Trent

Good Bad & The Monkey

posted: 8/3/2007 at 5:10 PM
modified: 8/3/2007 at 5:10 PM

Quote from Runnergabe on 8/3/2007 at 5:05 PM:

trial and error

Yep. And in fact, most meds out there were initially inspired by this sort of tribal wisdom. Airborn, on the other hand...well, it must be good cuz it was created by a teacher Roll eyes

What drug company?

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Poor baby

perfesserr

Imminent Catastrophe

posted: 8/4/2007 at 8:07 PM

I'm increasingly of the opinion that the term "homeopathic" is a big red warning flag. Maybe it's just me, but the more I learn about it, the more skeptical I get. Sounds to me like the whole theory is just nonsense. Here's an entry from Wikipedia:

Many homeopathic remedies are so highly diluted that no molecules of the original substance are likely to remain after dilution.[3][4] Homeopathy asserts that the remedy will retain a memory of the diluted substance and the therapeutic potency of a remedy can be increased by serial dilution combined with succussion, or vigorous shaking.

Puh-leeze! OK, it's wikipedia, but you can check the footnotes. I figure it's as effective as placebo, anyway.

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