Medicine, my way
So, I have some sort of lurgy and I ache all over and my lymphatic system is working overtime. The latest GP to join the medical practice I use has decided I must have something from his agenda wrong with me, rather than a simple bug or virus, so the time has come to take my health back into my own hands.
Happily, as I was roaming in Ilminster this morning, not that there's that much of it to roam, I saw a familiar and friendly face amongst the Thursday morning market stalls. A smiley man, so smiley he looks like he's wearing an elastic band, of Persian origin, who runs a stall filled with all sorts of wonderful culinary delights. How could I resist? Here was deliciousness and health all rolled into one.
I treated myself to big, luscious cranberries, candied ginger, roasted corn (it's like snack food but healthier), raw garlic cloves in chilli (Kim is away so I can eat them to my heart's content and not worry about kissing anyone!) and all sorts of other wonders. For less healthful but utterly scrumptious treats, I also got a bag of honey cashew nuts.
Today, there will be no vampires flying in Shepton; with the amount of garlic I ingested at lunch time, I doubt any will fly in the whole of south Somerset! I was very good and only had a small handful of the honey cashews, but lots of the health giving stuff, a good amble around town and lots of fresh air. Now, I have filled myself up with healthy things, blood purifiers and bug busters, so I'm expecting to feel like tigger again soon.
I renounce allopathic medicine - it'a always about how ill or bad you are, never how well you are. They like to measure and monitor, tell you how badly you are doing against their norms, how bits are failing or not meeting their targets. It seems such a negative approach. If my lymphatic system is in uproar, it means that there is someting in my system that needs to be cleared out - and if my system is doing that, well done my system. Better to give the body natural aids to help it fight than to stick needles in it to be able to label it "ok". Bring on the herbs because being used as a pincushion won't make me better.
I must be getting better, this is the second rant I've had in two days and that's a sure sign of recovery!
posted by The Shepton Witch @ 13:53
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I am so with you on allopathic medicine dear. I rarely visit any in the medical field and prefer to at least visit a DO instead of an MD. It's for the best anyway ... I just piss them off when I refuse to take their "treatments" instead of my herbs. LOL
I don't think they like me either Crystal! Not that I am bothered in the slightest, but I do find the overweaning arrogance of the medical profession, with one or two exceptional people I have met, deeply insulting. There are a great number of doctors who think that, because they have MD after their name, that the rest of the planet is stupid.
Hey Ho, deep breaths Sarah, your blood test is cancelled, your body is recovering and why waste good irritation on these people?!!
Got to agree with Crystal as well. I'm sure these docs know their stuff but prevention is better than masking the symptoms. It's a lottery what you get doctor-wise. My surgery are lovely and so helpful. I'm lucky.
I was reading the back of the coproxamol I had for my throat - addiction, comedown, making headaches worse. Whre's the upside? Honey, lemon, garlic, suit me better now.
How are you feeling now, my dear??!
Heaps better thank you TGW! The lymphatic system has calmed and there is only an occasional twinge in the inguinals, which is a huge improvement. I'm still getting quite tired, but less so, which means my body is still fighting and starting to win.
Thank you for asking. I suspect that under the onslaught of the amount of raw garlic (nicely marinated in oils and chillis), most of the germs and bugs in my body went running for their lives! I also suspect it would take someone with no sense of smell whatsoever to want to come within ten yards of me!
I cancelled the blood test I was supposed to have on Monday (ok, where's the sense in going to the doctor with a virus on Tuesday and not getting a test till the following Monday?!) and instead I shall have a jolly good lie-in and a cup of tea - much more health inducing.
How are you doing?
I'm so thrilled to hear that you are feeling better, dear! Both you and TGW have really been battling this nasty stuff. It's about time everything started turning around! Hugs!
Awww, thank you! And just to prove that I'm feeling better, I have just come in for a quick breather between trying to dig out a monstrous triffid from my flower bed. TGW saw it and was horrified (she knows lots more about plants than I do) and the thing is gradually taking over the whole bed and killing off the other plants. Now, if I can beat the triffid, I shall know im recovered!
There isn't much better medicine than getting out and getting your hands dirty!
WoooHooo! I am puffing like a walrus, red in the face like a baboon's bottom and a bit shiny, but it's:
Triffid 0 : Sarah 1
Or should that one be "won"! Goodness, that thing was a monster and I feel like I could do with an afternoon nap, but I got the thing out, even though it was rather bigger than I thought. I had to chop off all the leaves, just so I could get near the roots, but the garden is now triffid free and the large patch it took up is now inhabited by a recovering-from-unfair-competition lavender and some foxgloves.
Phew!
I also planted some dahlias, a gorgeous peachy/pink geum that I treated myself to today, a leopard's bane and a lovely gold lace primula and another plant that I have already forgotten the name of!
Time for a cuppa and a quiet fit of the vapours! ;-)
(I'm definitely better though)
P.S. My poor lavender, which the triffid had been overwhelming, had got all leggy trying to reach the light, so I trimmed it back a bit. I used the trimmed leaves, along with some rosemary, in a hot bath tonight in hopes of alleviating some of the aches got by digging.
The bath smelled divine and having clumps of leaves floating about was rather nice - hopefully I'm less like a polecat now and a tad more fragrant. I'm now off to deal with the remaining muscle twinges by taking ample drafts of Druit fluid.
Nostravia my friends!
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