Found this amusing....
My Forklift driver, a short little Ovambo chap, has been bitchin; about high blood pressure..... he wanted leave, to go see the Witchdocter, er traditional healer, who wanted to cut certain veins on the side of his face and back and bleed him for awhile, I guess in order to get the pressure to drop..... ANyhow, off he went got cut and drained and reckons he is now cured...
Me , being of european decent, sniggered at the whole thing, went online and researched this....Hells bells, there is a whole group of people that follow this..... there is even a facebook group for it... LINK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/For-High-Blood-Pressure-Sufferers-Simply-Cut-Yourself-and-Bleed-for-a-Few-Minutes/109996585683017?v=stream
Are we too westernised? Is there any truth in this?
Just my 2 cents
Ps.... Pepe, don'y Hijack the topic into a stemcell thing ...hehehehehe! image201 image201
image201 I won't Hijack this Topic Mike. This is helerious ha ha
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Mmm bloodletting was a common middle ages remedy for a variety of ailments ,, prob is if you chronically high blood pressured you soooner or later gonna run out of blood to have pressure with da da ,,, I get this mental picture of my one colleague who has all the lifestyle diseases including high BP ,,, some days his fingers look like pork sausages ,, I get this mental image of pricking the pork sausages and seeing the pressure release ,,,
Then again another middle ages remedy was trepanning ,, drilling a hole into the skull to relieve pressure or deal with fractures insanity etc ..
Also the attaching of leeches was popular at one time also to bleed the patient ,,
Leeches have recently made a medical comeback for a variety of conditions as have maggots for dealing with necrotic or highly infected flesh as they only devour the bad stuff leaving behind the healthy tissue and allow healing of the wound to take place ,,
I saw that about the maggots... gross but real. I wonder whether that came to be from structured experimental research or by coincidence??
Another help for high BP is daily consumption of garlic. Yeah... gross, the smell. There are alternatives or remedies for the worst of the pong, besides giving up your social life and all your friends.
I'm not sure just how effective it is alone but apparently it helps.
Bertie..???
Have also heard that eating raw potatoes helps to keep the blood pressure down. Don't know what ingredient in the potatoe does is, but apparently it works ... ????
Andrew, all I can say about the maggots is that the boys 'farm' with them these days ... you get lotsa money for breeding worms ... he he
For what it's worth I spoke with my driver this morning and he is starting to feel worse again..... told him to go and see the quack and get some bp pills.... reckons the quack says he does not need them....
Cause his been treating the systems (draining blood LOL) and not the cause. ha ha