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@Ironrod, that’s not just crazy. That’s masochistic, if not suicidal.
Hey Thomas-You are so right, my friend.
It was masochistic indeed.
The suicidal element really came into play after I discovered that I had managed to marry a violent sociopath.
That’s why I wear the armor now. ;)Some of these posts are hilarious and quite frankly make me feel a little better that I’m not the only one out there who has tried a multitude of strange therapies with little to no results.
I think my top most crazy-ass shit I’ve tried has to be the time I visited this alternative health clinic that specialized in “Bio-Energy Field” medicine, in which the practitioner feels out the energy fields with his hands and then determines which organs systems are dysfunctional and need healing. (This sounds so ridiculous the more I read it… I was pretty desperate then.)
I’m sitting in this office made up to look like a Dr’s waiting room… and in walks this middle-aged asian man who sits down in front of me, closes his eyes, and then begins slowly motioning his hands in front of me, without making any contact.
His left hand then sits, motioning in front of where my liver is. He grunts and looks displeased… he then blurts out “I sense a disturbance.” (In the force?)
Suddenly his left hand begins trembling mightily and he starts letting out this slow-burning yell, almost super-saiyan style a la Dragonball Z, and without warning, he one-inch jabs me below my right rib cage. (WTF!)
He then opens his eyes with this ridiculous grin and goes “Did that hurt!”
I’m respond with, “What the hell man! Of course it did?!”
And he goes “Then there’s something wrong with your liver”.
He then tells me for $1000, he will provide me epsom salts, olive oil, grapefruit juice and will monitor the therapy at the clinic to cleanse my liver (Which I later figured out was the infamous “liver cleanse” on CureZone).
Luckily I declined and left asap. Good thing the consultation was free!
And I really wanted to jab him back!
Wow. You people tried some crazy stuff.
I’ve tried just about every supplement known to man, but I’ve never done more than that.
I guess the craziest thing I’ve ever done was a 6 day water fast.
I went to an anthroposophic medical treatment facility (not knowing what that entailed) for chronic fatigue in summer 2012. They claimed it was the most revolutionary inpatient cure available. I lasted only two days, and should have left after the first hour.
They followed a starvation diet of approximately 200 calories per day. Water could only be consumed in two-ounce increments, once per meal. This “healing diet” was necessary for producing “cosmic connectedness.”
Water itself had special properties. Patients were instructed to fill a large bucket with water, and stir it with a stick until it created a vortex. As one patient stirred the water, another had to wave her hands over the bucket and envision projecting “chaos” into the water. Next we sprinkled an “activation powder” into the bucket. This is a mixture of cow manure which was packed into a cow horn, buried when the moon was in a particular phase, and dug up two weeks later. (Seriously. Look up “horn manure.” People actually believe in this.) After stirring, we had to walk around the yard of the treatment center, dip a paintbrush into the bucket, and fling water across the yard with the brush while chanting “Blessings on this house and its people.” The whole process took about three hours.
Why didn’t I leave? I wanted to stick around for color therapy, of course.
Here, the patients were blindfolded and led into a dark basement where a physician (yes, the leader really is an MD), projected an orange light onto a screen. After 30 seconds he turned off the light and said, “This has to do with Jupiter.” LOL! We were supposed to see a blue after-image, which is of course based on eye physiology– orange and blue being opposite colors. Patients were told that anything we saw was a healing vision from the soul, and if we didn’t see anything, we were blocking our life force, which was the real source of all illness.
I had not realized at all what I was getting myself into when I signed up. Despite being a biochemistry professor who knew this was nonsense from the minute I entered, I stayed on for two days hoping to glean some useful knowledge. I now realize my problem was undereating and overtraining, and I continue to improve slowly but surely, without the use of magical water. :-)
OK… that’s crazy!
Anthroposophic medicine… had to look it up… the wiki article makes it seem much more reasonable that the ‘black magic’ they had you doing.That’s Crazy Shit!
If it makes you feel any better (and it should not!) I, too, tried Anthroposophic Medicine. The Doctor had me giving myself daily injections. Now this wasn’t with one of those small diabetes syringes but a big old needle that I needed to plunge into my thigh muscle. After some pretty serious bruising, I gave up :)
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