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(Message started by: ClusterChuck on Oct 19^th, 2006, 10:39pm)

Title: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by ClusterChuck on Oct 19^th, 2006, 10:39pm

Ok where do I sign up to try some of these? At this point, SOME of them might actually help me!
http://health.msn.com/centers/headaches/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100133773

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm .. ... .... ..... ......

Chuck

Modified to correct mispelling ....
** Smack SMACK my typist for not even being able to spell "headache" ...DUH !!! **

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by HeadhurtinMama on Oct 19^th, 2006, 10:52pm

I think my favorite is the hangmans noose. Just where to find one... ;;D

Bridget

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by georgej on Oct 19^th, 2006, 11:44pm

Wearing a dead salt herring tied to your head?

;;D

George

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by LeLimey on Oct 20^th, 2006, 3:52am

on 10/19/06 at 23:44:46, georgej wrote:

Wearing a dead salt herring tied to your head?

;;D

George

As opposed to a LIVE salt herring eh Georgie?! ;)

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by georgej on Oct 20^th, 2006, 4:19am

on 10/20/06 at 03:52:16, LeLimey wrote:

As opposed to a LIVE salt herring eh Georgie?! ;)

Well, there is that......

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by sandie99 on Oct 20^th, 2006, 4:42am

Chuck,

why don't you just eat ice cream as soon as the hit begins? At least that would taste good - and it actually did abort one attack back in my chronic days. ;;D

But just ONE hit ONCE and I cannot recall what flavour I had... :-[

Best wishes & PF days,
Sanna ;)

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by chewy on Oct 20^th, 2006, 7:08am

I've been wearing the Herring on my head for the laast 30 years.

Same herring.

Maybe thats why I dont get invited anywhere and I can clear out a bus.

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by ben_uk on Oct 21^st, 2006, 12:51pm

Lady Anne Finche, Viscountess Conway 1631-1678 – interesting lady, interesting story

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/conway.html

Anne's headaches increase in frequency and pain requiring her to spend days in her darkened chamber. She attempts all treatments, including coffee and tobacco, as well as the famous Ens veneris of Robert Boyle, prepared by his own hands. Other cures, some very dangerous, such as opium, mercury, and laudenum are also attempted.
1656. April, Anne's excrutiating pain forces her to decide to journey to France to undergo a surgery known as the trepan. (Without anesthetics, the skull is opened to allow pressure to be released). More refuses to allow her to undertake the journey with only her servants in accompaniment, and joins her in her journey. The French surgeons were fearful of opening Anne's skull and opened her jugular arteries instead.

http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/qblcount.htm
“The skeleton of a dog was found upon the estate entombed within the bole of a tree”.

shocked

Quote -
“All pain and torment stimulates the life or spirit existing in everything which suffers. As we see from constant experience and as reason teaches us, this must necessarily happen because through pain and suffering whatever grossness or crassness is contracted by the spirit or body is diminished; and so the imprisoned spirit is set free and becomes more spiritual and, consequently, more active and effective through suffering.” (Principles, Chap VII, s.1).

More -
Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher By; Sarah Hutton http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=3001

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by Jimi on Oct 21^st, 2006, 1:09pm

Interesting read Ben.

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by pattik on Oct 21^st, 2006, 1:15pm

I second that...thanks for the link, Ben. It's an interesting and thought-provoking read in more ways than one. :)

pattik

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by georgej on Oct 21^st, 2006, 11:09pm

Yes, Ben--very interesting. I hadn't heard of her before.

"From her teens, Anne Conway suffered from bouts of inexplicable pain, the main symptom of which was an unrelievable headache. These 'fits' grew more intense, more frequent and more prolonged as she grew older. This medical condition was a major shaping factor in her life"

As it has been in the lives of many of us. What struck me particularly was her obvious desire to find meaning within her pain--some purpose or reason for it to exist. Anne Conway, at least, found a reason. At least to her own satisfaction. I never have.

The connection to cabbalistic writings was interesting as well. Remember the movie "Pi"? The probable CH'r who was the subject of the movie was obsessed with finding meaning inherent in the universe, and his pain drove him to seek it. He looked for that meaning by way of cabbalism. Just coincidence, surely, but interesting all the same.

I've often wondered about those who came before us--brothers and sisters unknown and long gone. CH, I think, has probably been around as long as there have been human beings. I think Anne Conway was most likely one of us.

Thanks, Ben.

Best wishes,

George

Title: Re: Interesting headache "cures"
Post by Charlie on Oct 22^nd, 2006, 2:13pm

Thanks Ben. Veeeeeerry interesting too.

I love this stuff and this period in English history.

Thanks. http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/pills.gif

Charlie