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...never really did. They don't do anything for me. All the feelings I think drugs are supposed to produce in you, confidence or energy, I can produce naturally in my body. The only problem is going to sleep. But I don't take sleeping pills. I drink herbal teas...
Though billed as an herbal, low-tobacco substitute for regular cigarettes, kreteks actually contain 60% tobacco and at least as much tar and nicotine as regular cigarettes. They also contain eugenol, a natural anesthetic found in cloves. Although eugenol has long been used by dentists to relieve pain, "no one knows what happens when it is burned," says Dr. Tee Guidotti, professor of occupational medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton...
There has not been much mean news. One Japanese masseur received a twelve-year suspension for prescribing a forbidden herbal remedy, and a sheared oarlock gate on a French eight-oar boat showed all the marks (file marks) of a saboteur. The regatta venue, Lake Casitas, is the last place one would expect intrigue...
...hypnosis and biofeedback have "earned respectable places in the pain-clinic arsenal," while chiropractors get lumped "outside standard medicine" with herbal treatments and faith healing. Thanks to my chiropractor, I am virtually pain-free today because he knew where to look when "medical doctors" failed me. Barbara J. Knill Lakewood, Ohio...
...have their head examined. Western doctors, trained to cure acute illness, are often frustrated by patients with vague pain that refuses to go away. So are the families, who quickly tire of hearing complaints. Dejected, guilt-ridden and increasingly isolated, many pain patients eventually seek care outside standard medicine: herbal treatments, chiropractic, faith healing and, too often, quackery. Says Fields of U.C.S.F.: "They fall through the cracks...