Tell us your remedies!

[mrdevious]

I've heard some pretty usefull odd remedies around here, such as the whole garlin on the feet thing, so I thought it would be cool if we all listed some little-known remedies we know about. I'll start:
(btw, pain-remedies would be awsome)


Problem: Cold/Flu
Remedie: concentrated garllic pills
Result: These seem to work better than ColdFX for me and everybody in my family (and coldFX always kills my colds within 3 days). Basically you can get these hard pills of it, which work much better than the soft-gel capsulse, and as soon as I feel a cold coming on I take one and it's gone. works way better than anything I've tried. (Sorry if that comes out scatter-brained, I'm rather high at the moment)

Problem: Chest cold (or any kind of infection)
Remedie: Sauna!
Result: That shit'll burn those little germs right out of ya! Just spend a half hour in the sauna (or more if you want), maybe 2-3 times during your illness, and the hot air will make your lungs totally inhospitable to the germs therin (I assume this is how it works, but hey it works non-the-less).

Problem: Mental fatigue, stress/depression, fuzzy memeory
Remedie: Vitamin B12 sublingually, in large doses
Result: I've been doing this for about a month and have really seen the results in the past week or so. I'm not forgetting things half as much anymore, I have way more mental and physical energy (and have thus been excercising a tonne, though it's hard to balance pushing it without hurting myself, which is really easy because of my buggered up spine). And the best thing is I'm barely getting depression at all anymore (maybe a couple hours a week). I've been getting horrible depression and stress from being in pain and all that crap, and after loading up on a double dose of this stuff, it constantly feels like my seratonin levels are higher (I recognize the feeling, because it's similar to psilocybin mushrooms which stimulate seratonin). But make sure you take it under your tongue (sublingual) because it doesn't absorb through the digestinal tract more than about 1% of what you swallow. I've also found this to work well in conjunction with multi-vitamins and lots of food high in vitamin-C.

[robert42]

this is a good thread... ppl need to get posting...

ill post my remedy tommorow as for now time for bed ;)

EDIT: BTW Vitiman B12 is a wonder drug :p

[KGod86]

Anxiety

Lavender Flower, SkullCap, Kava, Lemon Balm Leaf, Valerian Root, Mint, and st john wort, i mix them all in a jar, i will either use a tea ball and make tea or smoke it out of a pipe, really relaxing

[stinkyattic]

Problem: Chest cold (or any kind of infection)
Remedie: Sauna!
Result: That shit'll burn those little germs right out of ya.
This works because slightly elevating your body temperature activates your immune system.

My fave remedy is for sleeplessness caused by anxiety; smoke a bowl of dried hop flowers before bed.

For poison ivy, I use absorbine jr, which was originally a horse liniment. It's got thyme, mint, and eucalyptus oils dissolved in acetone and dries out the rash FAST.

For stuffiness, I like to go get sushi with XTRA wasabi. And a hot sake... but not for the cold! :D

For the lethargic winter blues, I like to cook with lots of hot peppers. I find the spice to be invigorating.

[fikusroot]

Well, as of right now I am very sick, thus the reason I am not at school. But let me share with you something. Yesterday I had a temperature of 105 degrees. Yes, 105. I was throwing up, convulsing, losing feeling in my arms in legs, I was delirious, dizzy, and basically thought I was going to die. Fortunately, it all subsided and after a good nights sleep, lots of water and ibuprofin my fever had dropped to 100 degrees. I was alone and was feeling really shitty, but much much better, especially compared to yesterday. I began thinking, I've been on a two week break from smoking and I get sick. I have NEVER gotten sick when I smoked 2-3 times a week. So I figured I'd just smoke a little little bit because marijuana is supposed to be "medicinal." Boy was it ever. My fever went away completely, the soreness in my bones went away, and I no longer felt "shitty" That was 4 hours ago. Now, my fever is still down, I feel much better and. unfortunately, will probably have to go to school tomorrow. All I have to say is WHY THE HELL DIDNT MY DOCTOR PRESCRIBE ME MEDICINAL MJ IN THE FIRST PLACE! I had always been sceptical to the truly "medicinal" properties of herb, but I am a sceptic no more. Now, I'm not going to say I'm no longer sick, but mj sure does a hell of a number on the symptoms. for all those who didnt feel like reading this long post, if youve got a bit of a fever, smoke a little bit of bud and youll feel right as rain.

[birdgirl73]

Fikusroot, next time you have a temp of 105 degrees and are convulsing, you need to be at a doctor's office or the emergency room, not at home toughing it out with ibuprofen and bed rest. Seriously, for teens and adults, a temp above 103 can cause neurological damage. That's scary.

Glad you're feeling better, however.

[fikusroot]

Actually, brain damage doesnt occur until 107 degrees as up to the 105 mark, your body is still in control of its temperature. If it goes past that than it probably means you have menengitis. I know because I looked it up because I was worried about the same thing. You have no idea the hell that it was. But it was only for an hour that my fever got that high. And I hope it didnt do brain damage since I have been a little out of it today (and not just because I smoked a wee bit). But thanks for your concern, I appreciate it. I've been feeling really shitty but my parents are gonna make me go to school tomorrow anyway. Bastards.

[birdgirl73]

Trust me on this. Damage can occur at lower temps than 105. Everyone's body is different, and you don't want to take chances. Those 105 and 107 boundaries are just arbitrary limits that I'm guessing someone with relatively little first-person medical experience must have written. Different people's brains respond differently, and teenagers' brains are particularly vulnerable to rising temps. (Toddlers' and small kids' brains are much more tolerant of high fevers, believe it or not.) I worked as a paramedic for a number of years, and we transported adolescents and adults routinely--without their consent, if necessary--for temps of 103 or greater. Someone with medical training needs to assess what's going on if you're that sick, even if it's just to identify the source of infection. Anyone with basic emergency training also checks pupillary reactions with temps in that range. Ask any ER doctor and he'll confirm that.

And as far as meningitis is concerned, you can have meningitis or encephalitis and have much lower temperatures than you'd expect. Especially with viral meningitis/encephalitis, fevers sometimes don't get very high. My mom's had meningitis twice, and one time her temp didn't get above 101.6. The other time it was 104, and she had some neurological impairment after that fever.

Glad you're feeling better. I don't see what harm one more day of rest could do you, especially after an ordeal like you've just been through. If you were my son, you'd have one more day off to look forward to.

[mrdevious]

Did you hallucinate at all Fikusroot? I remember when I was 13 I had a really bad fever, and late at night when I was trying to fall asleep I'd have hallucinations. The most extreme one (and this is damn weired, believe me or don't), I was trying to stay up till midnight to watch "Much Loud" (a metal show) in hopes of catching a metallica video (as I was all obsessed with them at the time). Finally at 11:30 I could't stay awake and felt on the brink of death, so I went to bed. then a little while later this big army seargent bursts into my room, yells at me "GET UP NOW! METALLICA IS ON!", and I did just that. Sure enough, the metallica video for "One" was just starting. And yes, the army guy was a complete hallucination. Possibly the weirdest thing that ever happened to me.

[fikusroot]

No i was fairly lucid the whole time, only thing that happened was the room started spinning. Now I'm freaking out because I think I may have brain damage. I just feel so out of it today and I'm not as witty or quick as I usually am. I think it's because I'm still kind of sick but I hope this isnt permanent. But my mom called the hospitol and said I had 105 and they didnt come rushing down to rescue me, they just gave her instructions on how to lower my temperature.

[birdgirl73]

No, no, hon. Don't freak out. You're just fine. You wouldn't be feeling as well as you are and sitting up typing entries on a cannabis forum if you weren't. Trust me. I wasn't meaning to make you doubt yourself of your mom's judgement. Sounds like she did precisely the right things. Moms are good like that when it comes to treating their kids.

I was just meaning to explain that a fever below 105 can be dangerous, too. You know what the bottom-line reason was that our fire department's policy was to transport at 103 or higher? Liability, basically. If we made the choice not to take people in when their fevers reached that level, we ran the risk of being liable if they did end up having lasting damage or dying of a serious infection later. When fevers have reached the 103 point, often they're not through climbing, so most emergency medical services take a better-safe-than-sorry approach. They're especially careful about elderly people, who can develop serious pneumonias very quickly, and teenagers and college students, who are particularly susceptible to meningiococcemia, a deadly blood infection that results from the same bacteria that causes meningitis.

Again, I don't believe you had any sort of deadly infection like meningitis or meningiococcemia. I think you probably had a fast-acting virus of some kind, which, fortunately, you shook very quickly. Worry no more. You're clearly on the mend. Be sure and keep drinking lots of fluids to rehydrate yourself!

[fikusroot]

Thanks. Yea, my dad just got back in town and he went to med school and said as long as it was only for an hour or so that I would be fine. I'm just supprised I shook it off so fast. I went from seriously thinking I was going to die to sitting up typing entries on cannabis forums. I was probably just freaking out. Bird girl, I know people compliment you all the time but you are seriously one of the most useful people I've ever encountered in my life. You need to start a cannabis friendly practice, even if you dont state it as being so outright

[NWDankBudz]

Birdgirl knows her stuff, I can tell you that:thumbsup: She is like a mom here, that gives you sound advice on problems you have.

[the yeag]

Fikusroot, next time you have a temp of 105 degrees and are convulsing, you need to be at a doctor's office or the emergency room, not at home toughing it out with ibuprofen and bed rest. Seriously, for teens and adults, a temp above 103 can cause neurological damage. That's scary.

Glad you're feeling better, however.

to late.way to late, this guy is fried...and once again he has ruined a good thread, with his poor me routine....BLAHHH:thumbsup:

[fikusroot]

I know, I'm so pathetic. I cant believe of all people, I ruined a good thread. But we're all here for our own theraputic reasons. I desperately seek attention by playing the poor me routine, and you desperately seek atention by flaming everyone. You and I arent so different... you and I...

[the yeag]

I know, I'm so pathetic. I cant believe of all people, I ruined a good thread. But we're all here for our own theraputic reasons. I desperately seek attention by playing the poor me routine, and you desperately seek atention by flaming everyone. You and I arent so different... you and I...

fucking ~A~ right:thumbsup:

[birdgirl73]

to late.way to late, this guy is fried...and once again he has ruined a good thread, with his poor me routine....BLAHHH:thumbsup:
Yeag, if anyone ruined this tread, I was that person. If you'll recall, Fikusroot was touting an effective home remedy he used when he was sick, which was weed. So you can blame me, who didn't post any remedies or keep with the topic. Oh, and you can blame yourself as well.

NWDankBudz, you're a kind person to say such a nice thing. Thank you for that. I do sometimes turn into a mom on here, and I really need not to do that, despite the fact that I love most of you guys in that mom-like way. I think I'm probably working out a touch of my own empty-nest-mom syndrome!

Fikusroot, thank you, too. I always enjoy talking with you, and I do intend to have a weed-friendly practice when I finish school. The only potential problem with that is the two specialties I'm leaning toward are pediatrics and emergency medicine, both of which present some unique challenges to weed advocacy. Things may change, however. We'll see.

[fikusroot]

Yea... I cant imagine to many mothers being to happy when you prescribe their kids antibiotics and 1 gram of Marijuana a day in the afternoon. Heh heh heh, I can see it now. DOCTOR, THIS MAN NEEDS 20cc's OF SOME STONG BUD STAT!!! But anyway, I know yeags a constant troller but I deal with lots people like him in real life so I just take it all in stride. I'm fairly talented at shutting people like him up. And are you a moderator birdgirl? I dont know how much time you'd have but you'd pobably make a good one. I wonder if you get paid anything to be one...

[birdgirl73]

Rx: Patient Name: Fikusroot Smith

Sig: 5 gm Northen Lights
Smoke 1 joint q4h or prn for whatever ails you

Dispense as written: EJ Birdgirl, M.D.

[fikusroot]

hmmm, so all I've got to do is legally change my name to Fikusroot Smith and I've got myself legal bud!

[birdgirl73]

And I've got to pass the boards and graduate from medical school, then move to a state where medical marijuana is allowed, then change the system so that docs prescribe it in this fashion. AND I've got to change my last name to Birdgirl.

I think you face less of an uphill battle than I do, Fikusroot.

[fikusroot]

Yes, but I am fairly lazy while you seem pretty motovated so I guess it all evens out.

[santacruz_organic]

Lomathium Osha, it helps with upper resparitory problems, which we all have...

[mrdevious]

Birdgirl, you should move to Canada here where marijuana prescriptions are allowed EVERWHERE. And do come to Kelowna, British Columbia when you innevitably emigrate, you'd be an awsome doctor ;) .

and don't feel bad if you mommy the forums, I think we need one to keep the kids in line! :)

[birdgirl73]

Thanks, Mr. Devious. British Columbia sounds great, actually, but I still think I'd run into trouble up there trying to prescribe medical mj for pediatric patients or emergency room patients! We're seriously thinking about moving to the Seattle area in four years when I'm ready for residency, so who knows where I might end up? All I know is it needs to be someplace wetter and cooler than Texas.

[Abattoir Dream]

yeh, i havent been on these forums for half as long as most of you, but i gotta say ive never heard birdgirl give a word of bad advice, and as a grower and user, ive gotta say i do look up to her as a highly important part of this community, - birdgirl, i gotta hand it to you, your amazing, and i wish you the best of luck in fulfilling your ambitions. one day in the future maybe there will be a highly potent medical strain of marijuana named after you, (maybe with a little durga mata in there too, - the mother godess) and i for one would be more than honoured to contribute to growing it, although it may never happen, i hope to one day roll a big fat blunt of birdgirl, and maybe even blaze a bowl of it too, until then, shine on you crazy diamond :) You rock! :)

p.s. (this isnt an attempt to kiss ass, im just tellin it how we all know it is)

[birdgirl73]

Thanks, Abbatoir, for the kind words. You're far too generous with your praise.

I think I like the idea of someday having a strain named after me. What I'd like even better would be to get that honor after winning some sort of prestigious science prize for unlocking the amazing curative properties of weed in some deep and important way, thus opening the road to its being used in treatment for dangeous diseases of all kinds. What a wonderful thing that'd be, wouldn't it?

[mrdevious]

Well, they've only recently discovered that THC helps prevent and even reverse a large part of alzheimers. Maybe you could invent a THC delivery system pill that cures alzheimers. now that would be cool:thumbsup:

[Purple Banana]

Remember kids, for a sore back, headache, or sprained whathaveyou, don't use Tylenol... Most docs hate it, and I can agree with them- its only uses are analgesic, as compared to things like ibuprofen or naproxen sodium, which WILL REDUCE SWELLING AND INFLAMMATION which equals more pain relief for less pills.

True, there's the whole gastric irritation thing with NSAIDS, but just take with food, and you're good to go.

The reason Tylenol is a bunch of assholes is due to a recent (or not so recent) ad I saw marketing Tylenol for arthritis- calling it "Tylenol Arthritis." I was intrigued by this, seeing as how arthritis is a chronic inflammation, Tyelnol wouldn't do shit- I read the label, and there was no additional ingredient, except more Tylenol. And that's not going to do shit. Overdosing old people who don't read med labels is immoral and dangerous... These people are now at a risk for liver damage due to Tylenol's money hungry desires... Fucking Tylenol.

Or you could always smoke pot to help with pain ;)

If you have a headache, take caffiene- gives you cause to drink lots of Mountain Dew to help shrink those dilated blood vessels :)

[Abattoir Dream]

I think I like the idea of someday having a strain named after me. What I'd like even better would be to get that honor after winning some sort of prestigious science prize for unlocking the amazing curative properties of weed in some deep and important way, thus opening the road to its being used in treatment for dangeous diseases of all kinds. What a wonderful thing that'd be, wouldn't it?


yeh that would be great, maybe one day both will happen, hard work reaps great rewards, and you sound dedicated, as for being too generous with my praise, theres no-one who deserves it more, after all, you want to save lives using cannabis, thats something special in itself... peace and good fortune...

[mrdevious]

Remember kids, for a sore back, headache, or sprained whathaveyou, don't use Tylenol... Most docs hate it, and I can agree with them- its only uses are analgesic, as compared to things like ibuprofen or naproxen sodium, which WILL REDUCE SWELLING AND INFLAMMATION which equals more pain relief for less pills.

True, there's the whole gastric irritation thing with NSAIDS, but just take with food, and you're good to go.

The reason Tylenol is a bunch of assholes is due to a recent (or not so recent) ad I saw marketing Tylenol for arthritis- calling it "Tylenol Arthritis." I was intrigued by this, seeing as how arthritis is a chronic inflammation, Tyelnol wouldn't do shit- I read the label, and there was no additional ingredient, except more Tylenol. And that's not going to do shit. Overdosing old people who don't read med labels is immoral and dangerous... These people are now at a risk for liver damage due to Tylenol's money hungry desires... Fucking Tylenol.

Or you could always smoke pot to help with pain ;)

If you have a headache, take caffiene- gives you cause to drink lots of Mountain Dew to help shrink those dilated blood vessels :)


I couldn't agree with you more, though unfortunately it seems doctors here are all for accetominophen (tylenol is the brand name). I especially hate it because they stick it in EVERYTHING whether it's needed or not. It doesn't kill pain for me one but, yet they stick 325mg in every Tramacet tablet. That means when I take the 3-4 tramacets it takes to kill pain for me, I also have to ingest 975-1,300mg of tylenol that does nothing for me except put an esceptionally large amount of our good liver-killing buddy accetominophen. (the maximum recommended dose for accetominophen is 500mg, though the human body can handle more, they're just being safe.)