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Skriven 2012-02-04 12:20:23 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 20483 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: health 132
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 26 Jan 12  23:52:00 <=-

 ML> When people started paying attention to acupuncture, a lot
 ML> of weird truths came out, one of which was that the body maps
 ML> that the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners
 ML> use aren't total bullcrap. It's true that the nerves may not
 ML> go directly the way the maps show them, but that's because
 ML> they're more practical than anatomic. A stimulus one place
 ML> might produce an effect another place, the way a disruption
 ML> on 390 might cause a slowdown on 490.

There was a lot of pooh-poohing.. until it was noticed that it worked. 
Now one sees pressure point diagrams on the walls of primary care
doctors... including the ones that work on symptoms elsewhere...

 NB>> where my massage therapist has to work it out to have more storage
 NB>> space for the next week...

 ML> That's funny, or at least would be if it weren't painful.

It's both.  :)  I have to keep a sense of humor about it all, or it
would be totally unbearable... ;0

 NB>> Then the body does its compensating thing... and all sorts of
 NB>> places can hurt that shouldn't have been... ;0

 ML> For me those places tend to be the neck and shoulders.

Mine can be just about anywhere...
 
 ML>> Ratafia de raisin - grape cordial
 ML>> 6 kg sugar [M's note - this appears to be several times too much]
 NB>> Maybe it's to make it super-sweet...?

 ML> If one tried to dissolve that amount of sugar in the
 ML> whole mess of eau-de-vie, grape juice, and water, one
 ML> might barely succeed. But the recipe suggests that
 ML> you can dissolve 6 liters of sugar in 1/2 liter of
 ML> water, which I believe would be an impossibility at
 ML> any temperature.

I guess I read it as trying to dissolve it in the whole mess... which as
you say is bad enough... ;0  I got turned off of sugar in coffee (back
before I discovered the allergy to coffee itself) by a friend that
always put so much sugar in his coffee that it hadn't a chance of
dissolving...  There was always this thick layer of coffee-ish-colored
sludge in the bottom of the cup afterwards...  What only made it worse
was that we were using those snap-the-cone-shaped-cup-in-the-holder
Solo cups...

ttyl        neb

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