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I saw an ad in a National Geographic magazine a few months ago that had two identical pictures of pills, and two identical pictures of herbs of some sort. One of the pill pictures said "useful" and the other "useless", ditto with the herbs. My question is: which would you go for? The pills or the herbs? All the amazing miracle-medication of today might just have the same results as the those healing herb-thingys people used a thousand years ago.
Why do I feel like people assume that you can't really know something unless you study it for years?
Here's a funny story: Not herbs, exactly, but whatever. My dad was working at his jobsite a few weeks ago, when he stepped on a nail. It went right through his shoe into his foot. Ouch. My dad says one of his suppliers or something-- I think his name's Miki-- told him to take off his shoe, and then Miki took a piece of wood and started whacking my dad's foot right where the nail had cut it. He says he put his shoe back on a didn't feel a thing.
No university, no painkiller. Just a bit of helpful random knowledge. So there.
Why do I feel like people assume that you can't really know something unless you study it for years?
Here's a funny story: Not herbs, exactly, but whatever. My dad was working at his jobsite a few weeks ago, when he stepped on a nail. It went right through his shoe into his foot. Ouch. My dad says one of his suppliers or something-- I think his name's Miki-- told him to take off his shoe, and then Miki took a piece of wood and started whacking my dad's foot right where the nail had cut it. He says he put his shoe back on a didn't feel a thing.
No university, no painkiller. Just a bit of helpful random knowledge. So there.
posted by Leenie ;-) at 5:36 pm
3 Comments:
HAHA..thats pretty cool...but dont under estimate the values of some medicines (Should I remind you what it is that my dad does?!?!) lol...JK
not to be sarcastic, but is it possible he just numbed the foot out by whacking it? which can be achieved with pills- except with less pain involved...
Actually, that's probably exactly what he did, but it turnes out that pills are not the only way.
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