UPDATE: Urea was NOT the answer, it peeled my skin and left me with a terrible rash. The lesson, don’t self-medicate! (and you urine therapy people are too fanatical, chill out) I finally found a doctor who diagnosed me correctly. It WASN’T PSORIASIS, it was a skin fungus. After 4 days of ketakanazol, the symptoms disappeared completely. The new anti-fungal medications work very well, and are not toxic. It will take six months to cure totally, but now I have the right treatment and my life is soooo much better! If you have what you think is psoriasis, have your doctor take a t ...
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Excuse me if I find rubbing piss into my face a little disgusting. I would rather spend the $12 on a chemical isolate, mixed with a non-allergenic cream.   [End]
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Hello fellow flakers, I’ve suffered for years with psoriasis on my face. Gone to doctor after doctor, who prescribed heavy toxic drugs like antibiotics and cortisone. (One even asked me ”did you try washing your face with soap?” :| ) Those doctors were worse than useless, the antibiotics gave me horrible constipation which took two months to get over. Two days ago I was walking through the mall with my usual dry red itchy flakey face when a sudden intutive urge pushed me towards the cosmetics counter at Shoppers Drugmart. I asked the cosmetician what to do about my skin and she i ...
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I agree with nordskoven’s recommendation of http://www.diagnose-me.com (but not the fanatical religious statement). This is a commendable tool for self-diagnosis. They ask about 400 questions, which is more than any doctor I ever met! It takes about an hour, but is Very thorough and very accurate. You can also hire a doctor to review your survey results. Price is pretty reasonable. It costs $25 for a computer-only analysis, which offers some pretty accurate results IMHO. Up to $115 for live doctor consultations, which is still cheaper than most GP’s, and a much deeper level of diag ...
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This ability is more common than you may realize. I went to a series of workshops called ”listening hands” where two nurses taught us how. Apparantly, it is a secret that some nurses know very well, and it allows them to provide good care for their patients, even when they know the doctors are wrong! I developed this ability to a small degree, but enough to dignose basic illnesses and ”channel” a cure. Anybody can do it, you just have to be open to the possiblity and spend the time learning from others who know how. Natasha has developed her abilities to a very high degree, helped n ...
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I have exactly the same symptoms, made better by fish and water, made worse by white bread and beer.   [End]
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Hello, I know it’s not popular to talk about mainstream medicine on this forum, but I have to report my results with Itracanazole (Sporanox) and nail fungus.... It worked. I was also very concerned about liver toxicity, but there has been progress in the last few years, and the dosage has been refined from 3 months non-stop (yikes!), to three months, 7 days on, 21 days off. MUCH easier on the liver! Still, alcohol is mildly contraindicated. I had a fungus in my right big toe for over ten years and it is gone now. Just to be sure, I did a parasite/colon cleanse, (Natural Factor ...
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Personally I’m glad for people like beetlejuice, who keep the ball rolling!   [End]
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Catholics believe that when you are born you are already in a state of sin, that you cannot meet God unless you accept Jesus as your intermediary, and that by doing so you are cleansed of sin in this life, your only life. Jews believe that God give punishments and rewards, but don’t have much to say about the afterlife, reincarnation, or heaven. However, traditional Judaism firmly believes that death is not the end of human existence. Hindus believe that when you are REborn, you carry the weight of past karma and must act it out, and that you can only control your present actions t ...
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Beetlejuice, read between the lines. Trying to make me feel guilty about being such a bad Halowe’en Pope doesn’t do you or me a bit of good, so I’m not much impressed by what’s in your costume either. I’m not the Pope, and frankly would never want the job because it’s impossible to give people what they can’t give to themselves. The point I was trying to make is that people deserve to be forgiven - BY THEMSELVES. People choose by habit, training or design to keep themselves small and guilty, by themselves. Another point I was trying to make is this: people need to be well sheparde ...
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Last Hallowe’en I was The Pope. The costume was very convincing, and a lot of people approached me as if I were THE POPE! This experience allowed me to see the true depth of human guilt in the general population (of my town in Canada, anyways). The Pope has a tough job. Why? Because ___People Feel Guilty___! I’ll say it again: people feel guilty. They feel regret, self-reproach, a feeling of disappointment or distress about something that they wish could be different. These are very nice people, but they want the Pope to forgive them. I spent the entire night telling people ”He ...
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A man stared up at the stars one night, scratched his head, breathed deeply and said ”Gaaaawd”. He yearned to know who made the stars, but even though he tried very hard he couldn’t. Today he still doesn’t know, but he suspects it must be somebody named God (though he doesn’t have any good evidence yet). When his kid asks him who made the stars, he is as honest as he can be and says ”sorry, I don’t know yet”. Nonetheless, he loves to look at the stars every chance he can get, they’re so beautiful.   [End]
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I am reminded of Schroedinger’s Cat. The cat is inside a tightly sealed box that has a finely poised death trap, and the only way we can know if it is dead or alive is if we open the box. But maybe opening the box will kill him, or save him! Same is true for the Uncertainty Principle: we cannot measure the speed of a particle unless we interfere with its location, or vica versa. I am a part of the world, and the world comes into being through my mind and senses. In a personal, subjective sense, I create my world through my internal filters. I am the creator. Hmmm... so are you. You ...
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The problem with religion is God. People mistakenly try to define God and the path to God (as if only they know), and are willing to debate and even go to war against eachother for their conflicting views. Religion is a natural instinct of humans, we feel drawn to re-attach to nature and the cosmos. The word religion even means re-attachment, as if we were originally whole, but then somehow became detached, and now we are trying to find our way back again. What are we un-attached from? Everybody says ”God”, but that is just a placeholder name for something we have no understanding ...
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It’s more technical than that. There are three flaws of listening, that are similar to the illustration of a cup (or bowl). A dirty bowl (a listener perverts what he hears), A cracked bowl (the listener doesn’t retain anything he hears), and An upside down bowl (the listener is not open to anything new). The Zen story offers a fourth possible flaw of listening, a full bowl (the listener is full of busy thoughts).   [End]
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