My Naturopath has instructed me to stop taking baths with soap, and substitute olive oil. It has helped the dry itching somewhat. Plus it looks pretty.
Tag: naturopathic
Gourmet Fish Oil?
My naturopath has me taking fish oil for depression and joint pain. I had been taking the gelitin encased ones. But my naturopath says you don’t get. Much out of those and he has me on the real thing. One tablespoon straight from the bottle.
It isn’t as bad as I thought. It is a little fishy which is covered by the lemon flavor. I’ve actually kind of acquired a taste for it. In fact I want it to be more subtly infused with thyme. Or maybe rosemary. I think that freshly lemoned fish oil could be a hit in the kinds of restaurants that serve wheatgrass. I’m joking but I’m also serious. San Francisco, I’m looking at you. Let’s see some gourmet mercurey free omega-3s!
Hypnosis and the Cold Room
A couple of days ago I woke up early and rode my bike around the park. It was really cold; it was 50 degrees, and had been in the 70’s for the week previous. So I was cold at first, though nothing new. But halfway around the loop my pins and needles came on quickly and really strongly. Normally it only kicks in at the end of the first lap, and it goes away.
I pulled over to the side of the road. Took off my long sleeve jersey, and pulled up my undershirt. I almost took it off too. I waited for a bit to cool down. Me, standing in spandex biking shorts and a white t-shirt pulled up to my armpits. After a few minutes I realized I wasn’t going to get much cooler. I rode back in the t-shirt, with that awful pins and needles feeling, just trying to make it home.
tomorrow i’m going to go see a psychologist who specializes in visualization, with a focus on hypnosis and self-hypnosis. We are going to work on techniques for visualizing the freezing air conditioned server room at the studio, where I go when I overheat.
The idea of hypnosis freaks me out a bit, but the idea of what we are going to work on is fundamentally sound. I have started to try to think about that room when the overheating/pins and needles feeling is coming on, and it helps moderate the severity. I can’t quite make it *stop* right then and there, but I can make it better. So better visualization skills should help.
in other news my mouth is raw again. not as bad as the previous three(?) times, but the cycle feels like it is still waxing, and will get worse before it gets better.
Medicinal Mushrooms
i got chinese herbs to take. apparently one of the hot topics in herbalism is mushrooms. certain mushrooms are immunostimulants. three types in particular are the focus of most of the studies: shitake, maitake, and reishi. i regularly saute the first two, but i’ve never seen reishi before.
so i was in chinatown two days ago, and i thought to stop into one of the dried good stores. frankly i was expecting total epic failure, but the first person i talked to got very excited and walked to the back of the store and showed me this box. and explained that it was the extract of the red reishi mushroom. the spores are ground up in capsules.
he also tried to sell me some other herbal supplements for “manly potency.” i passed.
Neti Pot FTW!
I finall got the Neti Pot. It still isn’t quite “comfortable” or “relaxing” but it doesn’t immediately result in nasal water explosions, or the feeling of being waterboarded.
