In my travel thru life I pickup a wart. On my right index finger. A bit of a nuisance but I persevere. After a few months I go to the doctor to have it frozen. She freezes it and 3 months later it re surfaces.
I persevere another 3 months & go back to the doctor. Freezes & comes back again.
After a while I go back to the doctor. A different one, she tells me:
"Oh I'll freeze it but just put some duct tape over it for a few days"
Quack, I think deep down. "Will do" I say. In order to prove her wrong I will put the duct tape on.
U guessed it! It went away & stayed away.
I meet up with this fine practitioner on another matter for my daughter & ask her:
"Hey what's the mechanism behind the duct tape thing? What makes it work"
And her answer was deeper than I was expecting and more revealing of the plight and direction of humankind than I could have ever imagined.
She said: "we don't know"
LMAO.... Working in the health care field I see this type of thing every day. Medicine is as much an art as it is a science. Sdaly science has become the focus and be all and end all of medicine. Those who lose sight of the "art" have much less to offer their pts. The human body is THE most amazing machine in the universe. It has the potential to fix anything wrong with it given time and the correct resources. These resources are NOT necessarily what all Doctors and Big Pharma tell us they are.
I know this little story sounds weird on the surface, but for me it was a realization that not knowing why something works does not negate its result.
To extrapolate, do things in preparation of something we don't know, isn't senseless. As there are many, many things we do without knowing how it's done. Giving birth springs to mind lol. Sure we know the mechanics as simple observers. But that's really all we are here.
My grade school told us a story once, during health class. He and a friend were down in Florida for a tennis match, and they had the day to them selves. So they went to the beach on a cloudy day, found out that you could still get real burned, 2nd degree in fact. The doctor they saw could do much for them medically, but told them off the record to steep some black tea, and when cooled paint it on the burned area. The black tea took the fever out of the skin, and helped healing faster. 
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
Tea contains tannic acid... good for burns and any surface inflamation... also to put wet teabgs on irritated eyes.
Tea bag is the best remedy I know for a sty in the eye, Gypsy ladie in Bosnia showed me
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I am currently sporting pink duct tape! It' a beautiful thing!!
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I am currently sporting pink duct tape! It' a beautiful thing!!
i am currently sporting silver duct tape and a banana peel...got to try new things 🙂
could be a new fashion trend.
ok here goes another one;
18-25 wasp stings all in the back of my calf (lower leg) since I stepped on a hive in a rotten log with shorts on.
$45-65 in drugs to fix it, did not help, kept swelling, more pain, spreading .. huge
Neighbour says, rub an onion on it! Got an Onion, cut it in half, rubbed on wasp sting areas, sliced thin slice off the onion when dried. Did this twice more that day..
.25c solution, worked like a charm = Docs=big Pharma meds
the meaning of life is watching your children grow to be a better person then u...my 2cents