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(Message started by: rrich600 on Apr 12^th, 2002, 11:36am)

Title: Siberian Ginseng
Post by rrich600 on Apr 12^th, 2002, 11:36am

;D I don't know whether it will work for every one, but for the first time last night i tried drinking ginseng tea. I make it out of shaved Siberian ginseng root, I put about 2 Tablespoons in my coffee filter,(with no coffee of course) and poured in a full pot of water. This makes a yellow looking tea. I will be the first to tell you it is about the nastiest tasting stuff you will ever ingest, but it worked on me. I had one of the worst headaches i ever had last night and i drank a glass of this ginseng tea, and in about 5 minutes my headache was gone and did not re-occur the rest of the night. I am hoping that this will actually work every night. If it does, I am FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just thought I would share this with you all, if it can help one other person, it would be worth it to me. :)For those of you who can take a good laugh. I read in a book for headache suffers that a cold enema will stop any headache immediatley. Who know it might actually work.

Title: Re: Siberian Ginseng
Post by Greg_A on Apr 12^th, 2002, 9:14pm

Keep us posted on your tea trial. Hopefully it works and your FREE from the pain FOREVER.

As for the cold enema, i will have to think about that the next time the beast has me bent over the couch :)

Wonder if anyone has ever tried the cold enema thing? too funny. There should be a new message board topic added "X-treme CH Battle Tactics"

Good luck, hope the tea keeps ya pain free.

lata

Title: Re: Siberian Ginseng
Post by kim on Apr 12^th, 2002, 9:23pm

LOOK OUT!!!! :oEnema Bandits to the rescue! :D

Title: Re: Siberian Ginseng
Post by Not4Hire on Apr 13^th, 2002, 3:42pm

Anybody here tried Mate de Coca/Inca Tea for CH or side effects from meds? (besides me....?)

I am not sure it's legal in the US, altho I know you can buy it in the duty-free shops at the Lima, Peru airport. I never had the stones to buy it and bring it back, not wanting a hassle going thru Customs, but I'm sure people do. My beautiful Peruana bride tells me it's *no problema* but she's been wrong before...(don't tell her I said so...)

I do know that it is a very effective tonic, not addictive or mind altering (no buzz), widely used in South America, and *should* be available for the likes of us CHers. I found a site (see link below) that sells it -offices in Miami- but the prices they want are really high (compared to what I was paying in Peru.) Click on *ORDER NOW!* for details.

Submitted FWIW.........

http://www.peruconnections.com/inkatea/faq.html

Title: Re: Siberian Ginseng
Post by dlou on May 17^th, 2002, 10:04am

Hi,

Just wondering if you think ginseng in pill form would work?

Title: Re: Siberian Ginseng
Post by Not4Hire on May 17^th, 2002, 11:23am

FWIW......my sweet, snake-oil-lovin', Peruvian wife is CONVINCED that a product called Pharmaton or Farmaton -which contains ginseng- will cure my CH. Anybody ever tried it?

I don't think it's *very* available in the US, altho it's over-the-counter in Peru. Hell, morphine is OTC there , too.

I'm willing to try ANYTHING at this point. Anybody?