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Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

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Re: Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

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Post by nostromo »

dmix wrote: post #11
jfengel wrote: post #6

From (2006). Since then it's had 23 cites, mostly in the context of alternative medicine. The one study that seemed to investigate it[1] dismissed it in passing. The guy publishes a lot in Medical Hypotheses , on a wide range of topics (topical gallium for arthritis, taurine for cardiac arrythmia, magnesium for depression). The email address is at "coldcure.com". Which strikes me as having a whiff of crankery to it,…

This fits the 'novel, unexpected, and unusual' byline that provide the perfect butter for things to go viral. Pseudo-science often has these features sadly (not to assume he's wrong here, even clocks strikes right, etc). Edit: coldcure.com was recently sold off but prior to that it had a long history of hocking naturpath "common cold cure" pills https://web.archive.org/web/20060103011343/http://www.coldcu... From a 1…

Zinc does seem to shorten the common cold though, although less than originally thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_and_the_common_cold

Re: Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

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Post by codr7 »

scrozart wrote: post #10

This is meat, and I'll be forwarding it to my ENT and allergist. I have chronic sinus issues that so far have yet to respond to much.

I used to have serious sinus issues but these days it's mostly fine. What changed everything for me was Yogic nose cleansing, running body temperatured salt water through the sinuses on a daily basis. The first few weeks I had really weird stuff coming out with the water, definitely not something you'd want clogged up in your sinuses.

Re: Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

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Post by crispyporkbites »

jfengel wrote: post #6

From (2006). Since then it's had 23 cites, mostly in the context of alternative medicine. The one study that seemed to investigate it[1] dismissed it in passing. The guy publishes a lot in Medical Hypotheses , on a wide range of topics (topical gallium for arthritis, taurine for cardiac arrythmia, magnesium for depression). The email address is at "coldcure.com". Which strikes me as having a whiff of crankery to it,…

Hacker news is full of pseudo science lately, all sorts of anecdotal medical advice keeps popping up on the front page.

Re: Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

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Post by monkpit »

jimnotgym wrote: post #18
agbell wrote: post #9

I found, through a coincidence, that lip trills really seemed to open up my sinuses. I wonder if this is related? https://youtu.be/fwNPp-RS4IY

Can you describe 'lip thrills' further please?

Probably autocorrected version of “trills”

Re: Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

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Post by vram22 »

samelawrence wrote: post #5
davidhyde wrote: post #2

But what if the virus happens to like your humming?

I'm imagining a group of zen little viruses all sitting in lotus position.

Tangential joke I read somewhere, in an article about the history of computers:

Some spreadsheet software was named Buddha because it would assume the Lotus position. I thought I read it as Excel, but I searched, and found this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Software

See Section "Origins":

[ Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation technique as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Incidentally, competitor Borland code-named their Quattro Pro software "Buddha", as the software was meant to "assume the Lotus position" and take over Lotus 1-2-3's market. ]

Re: Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

crispyporkbites wrote: post #25
jfengel wrote: post #6

From (2006). Since then it's had 23 cites, mostly in the context of alternative medicine. The one study that seemed to investigate it[1] dismissed it in passing. The guy publishes a lot in Medical Hypotheses , on a wide range of topics (topical gallium for arthritis, taurine for cardiac arrythmia, magnesium for depression). The email address is at "coldcure.com". Which strikes me as having a whiff of crankery to it,…

Hacker news is full of pseudo science lately, all sorts of anecdotal medical advice keeps popping up on the front page.

Unfortunately being good at computers doesn’t make you good at recognising BS.

Re: Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

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Post by agbell »

jimnotgym wrote: post #18
agbell wrote: post #9

I found, through a coincidence, that lip trills really seemed to open up my sinuses. I wonder if this is related? https://youtu.be/fwNPp-RS4IY

Can you describe 'lip thrills' further please?

spelling mistake. I added a YouTube link. Its sort of like humming and blowing a raspberry.

Re: Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (2006)

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Post by [deleted] »

crispyporkbites wrote: post #25
jfengel wrote: post #6

From (2006). Since then it's had 23 cites, mostly in the context of alternative medicine. The one study that seemed to investigate it[1] dismissed it in passing. The guy publishes a lot in Medical Hypotheses , on a wide range of topics (topical gallium for arthritis, taurine for cardiac arrythmia, magnesium for depression). The email address is at "coldcure.com". Which strikes me as having a whiff of crankery to it,…

Hacker news is full of pseudo science lately, all sorts of anecdotal medical advice keeps popping up on the front page.

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