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Re: Growing a home apothecary

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Post by vorpalhex »

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #45
vorpalhex wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except those alternatives will kill you dead if mishandled. This isn't a choice between "cough medicine" and "slightly less effective cough medicine", it's a choice between a controlled and inspected product and random plants that may or may not be the right genus, dose and concentration.

'Wrong Genus' seems to be giving monks and other gardeners less credit than they deserve? Sure, amateurs foraging for wild herbs could make some dangerous mistakes, but if you're intentionally growing a plant it's presumably the right one?

Frequently it's not. Seeds can be mislabeled and many plants are extremely difficult to identify reliably, much less grow to have a consistent dose of whatever active ingrediant.

Re: Growing a home apothecary

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Post by Auracle »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #42
tsol wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes and no. If I'm nauseous I can take a little ginger, but there isn't really an comparable over the counter anti-nausea med. There's dimenhydrinate for motion sickness, but that's different. Ondansetron is a prescription only anti-nausea med that's very effective, but obviously much harder to obtain. So modern medicine is more effective, only for the proper indication and when a 'modern' treatment is easily availab…

Isn’t that one of the recognized uses for cannabis?

There are pretty significant “side effects” with that particular medication.

Re: Growing a home apothecary

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Post by leobg »

oblib wrote: post #32

I'll chime in for raw honey even though it's not a plant. About 12-15 years ago I started getting pain in my right shoulder. This went on for about 6 months. My wife and friends and my doctor told me it was "bursitis" and I'd need an operation to get rid of it. Back then going to the doctor was the leading cause of avoidable death so I wasn't keen on getting that operation (it's now the 3rd leading cause of avoidable…

Just to confirm: You did not apply that honey topically. You ate it. Right?

Re: Growing a home apothecary

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Post by tomcam »

leobg wrote: post #53
oblib wrote: post #32

I'll chime in for raw honey even though it's not a plant. About 12-15 years ago I started getting pain in my right shoulder. This went on for about 6 months. My wife and friends and my doctor told me it was "bursitis" and I'd need an operation to get rid of it. Back then going to the doctor was the leading cause of avoidable death so I wasn't keen on getting that operation (it's now the 3rd leading cause of avoidable…

Just to confirm: You did not apply that honey topically. You ate it. Right?

No, a suppository

Re: Growing a home apothecary

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Post by oblib »

thethirdone wrote: post #44
oblib wrote: post #32

I'll chime in for raw honey even though it's not a plant. About 12-15 years ago I started getting pain in my right shoulder. This went on for about 6 months. My wife and friends and my doctor told me it was "bursitis" and I'd need an operation to get rid of it. Back then going to the doctor was the leading cause of avoidable death so I wasn't keen on getting that operation (it's now the 3rd leading cause of avoidable…

From Mayo clinic: > Bursitis generally gets better on its own. [0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bursitis/diag...

Well, as I said, I had it for around six months (or more) and it was getting worse the entire time, and after just a couple weeks of taking the raw honey it was gone. Same with my neighbor.

So it was not, and did not, get better on its own.

You can ignore what I've shared here if you want, or you can choose to learn something from it. I am very grateful for the person who told me about.

Re: Growing a home apothecary

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Post by oblib »

leobg wrote: post #53
oblib wrote: post #32

I'll chime in for raw honey even though it's not a plant. About 12-15 years ago I started getting pain in my right shoulder. This went on for about 6 months. My wife and friends and my doctor told me it was "bursitis" and I'd need an operation to get rid of it. Back then going to the doctor was the leading cause of avoidable death so I wasn't keen on getting that operation (it's now the 3rd leading cause of avoidable…

Just to confirm: You did not apply that honey topically. You ate it. Right?

I ate the raw honey :D
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