Guest guest Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 OK, WAP said the people in (?Ireland?) had smoky homes and used the sooty straw from their roofs to fertilize their gardens, right? Is there a way inhaling smoke can get minerals into us? Don't the Native Americans have some healing herbs that they smoke? I'm curious because once more I was just starting to recover from a cold and we had a little campfire, burned lots of sticks that blew down from a windstorm and roasted hotdogs. I felt great. Had been having post nasal drip, sinus ache, fatigue, etc. It left when I started the fire and never came back again. And it's not the first time that has happened. It makes me wonder about fire and smoke. Like, can the body get vitamin D (precursor) from firelight just like from sunlight? If there are healing types of fungi growing in the wood you burn, does inhaling the smoke " medicate " you? If there are minerals in the smoke, do you benefit from inhaling it? I wasn't standing in the smoke taking deep breaths, but we were burning a lot of the trimmings from the wild plum trees and it did smell pretty good, so I wasn't exactly avoiding the smoke either. I had been to my sister's for Christmas. She had a 13 " X 9 " pan of fudge there to greet us and after that it only got worse. I was going to be strong, but you've never tasted her homemade fudge. So I hadn't felt " right " since, until the fire. The next morning I woke up feeling right as rain, better, really. So what's the deal with fires? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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