Hi, thanks and a glass of water :)

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, Jody, B,

I appreciate and thank you for sharing your thoughts.

A friend from the list forwarded your messages to me. I attended to

your suggestions, reconsidered and subscribed again. Here I am B

for one more go-round of controversy ...

B you're right when you say I am prone to embrace alternative

measures. Naturist medicine, is also medicine, and is a speciality

that can be chosen in Faculties of Medicine in most European

countries. By my personal circumstances I started (and continue to

be) as allopatic consumer. I talked about this one in post 214. In my

search for solutions that the present knowledge of allopathic

medicine could not provide, I approached –long ago- the Naturist

Medicine, as well as several therapies pertaining to Oriental

culture. Touched this subject on post 202. Since I tried and verified

how they work, I'm a believer. But.... I know this path is not

for

everybody. More often than not they imply radical changes in own

life, and an active actitude, versus a pasive one letting the

doc `cure me', of give me a pill to swallow.

Of course, all above have to be considered into certain reasonable

limits.

I also said that if I had a peritonnitis I would directly go to a

Hospital emergency department for surgery. But functional problems

(like Graves) and many many others have pretty good solutions under

soft aproaches.

Anyway, I'm not pushing anyone to follow this route, but

suggesting

only a wider perspective for searching more information in order to

take own decissions, which under allopatic way are rather drastic.

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I missed thanking , for bringing to my attention a book I

didn't

know. I'm ordering it right away.

It's the book " Your Body's Many Cries for Water " that Ann

was sharing

in her post at Dr Stoll's. Its content is on the healing power of

water, and it was written by a trained medical doctor –Dr

Batmanghelidj, M.D- material peer reviewed and published in a number

of scientific journals, as stated at www.watercures.com.

The subject itself is not new. The therapeutic use of water is one of

the oldest healing remedies used by humankind. For thousands of

years, water was used in India as a mean to stimulate, preserve,

favour and recover health. The milenarian hindu-yogui art of healing

with water is well known.

3000 thousand years b.C, physicians in Egypt used several different

water-cures. Homeric chants, 1000 years b.C. -when refering to the

Greek God of medicine Esculape or Asclepios- explain different

hydrotherapy practices. Later, around 400 years bC, Hypocrate, the

father of medicine, considered hydrotherapy as a first order

therapeutic procedure, and explained in detail different ways to use

it .

Nice guy this Hypocrate: He sustained that a medico should rather

loose his fees instead of having the patient worried about them...

This advice is not much followed by current european doctors, what is

a pity!,.. but many follow his principles and, nearly all the basic

hydrotherapy technics presently used in Europe, were already used by

him 2400 years ago.

So, water theraphy is not new, but I did not know that a western

medical doctor had " scientifically " proved and peer reviewed

its

healing properties. I'm curious about the details, that's why

I'm

ready to read the book.

I admit that this Dr Batmanghelidj's theory on cysteine and Zinc

being related to homosexuality sounds flipant, but ... he assures he

can also demonstrate... He might win the Nobel if he proves his

theory.

According to the information I have on cysteine and Zinc, it

doesn't

seem to be such a crazy theory. This doesn't mean he is right,

for

sure, but Dr batmanghelidj has to demonstrate, and it seems that it

is what he is trying to do.

Who knows... every day new discoveries are found.

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Dear , I would never think you were insensitive, on the contrary

all your messages are compassionate and filled with delicacy.

I only meant that is was good that the list re-started activity, as a

sign showing its vitality. Whilst I missed kind of collective re-take

of its initial spirit. But perhaps it's only me who missed this

spirit.

It might well be my perception or my need of such free-spirit.

Big thanks again to you all.

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