Crystal healing & alternative medicines

[wifey6]

Just wondering if any one else is interested in & uses crystal healing & alternative medicines? I have had mixed opinions when I have shared my interest before. Was hoping for like-minded people to talk with.

I've found that acetylsalicylic crystals are excellent at treating headaches.

Snorbs- those are the crystals you actually have to swallow to tap into their energy, aren't they?

Yes, but I've no idea why. Maybe they need to be close to your manipura chakra for maximum effect.

Aluminium sulphate crystals are really good for getting small cuts to heal, too. You can get them in a kind of wand thing to make them easier to handle. You just rub it gently over the cut and it stops the bleeding almost immediately!

I wear healing crystals but have found I can't get on with the hematite stone
Anyone else wear the crystals?

I use crystals and I do reiki too wifey . I wear hematite when I need grounding. In what way don't you get on with it? What are you using it for?

It makes me very negative...although I know it should have the reverse affect. I'm using crystals & alternative medicine to help with DUB, anxiety (which affects my speech) & over all balance.

Carbon makes lovely big sparkly crystals that make most people very happy.......

Does anyone know what lapis lazuli is used for please?

I can't wear hematite either, it makes me feel very anxious.

How strange plastic...as it should have the opposite affect. My DM can't either.

I'm interested in hearing an explanation of how you think this is supposed to work. Not the stuff you swallow, I swear by that too, but the kind you wear.

Can you please point me towards a peer reviewed study that has shown that this sort of stuff is beneficial or explain the biochemical processes that take place during this treatment (without making reference to loan words from physics that actually means something else).

I do not feel I need to explain of justify my beliefs. I will not go in to why I use these as that's very personal but it was a terrible health issue & I have been using alternative & crystal therapy & combined has made a massive improvement to my health. I tried huge amounts of prescription medicines without any success for nearly a year....so I don't really look for logic behind it...just that it works for me & my health issue is now under control.

I'm sure it does work very nicely for you, but don't forget to check an actual doctor occasionally.

ateallthepurpleones.....can you tell me more about reiki please?

whols....yes I do....just to check everything is ok. The doctors at my surgery are very pro- alternative meds. One doctor even agreed as we had tried all medication available for my condition...alternative may be an option & it's the thing that's worked the most. I also see a herbalist who advises me.

I have used alternative medicine - aromatherapy, massage, acupuncture, etc. and definitely believe that they have helped speed healing when used in conjunction with modern medicine. For instance I was told I would need 6 weeks off work after a back operation, the first 4 to be in bed - I was up and about the day after as soon as the HCPs would let me off the bed, and back at work within 2 weeks. I could have gone back earlier but the GP wanted to play it safe and wouldn't sign me back on. My mother also used alternative medicine, again in conjunction with modern medicine, when she had breast cancer. She saw a fully medically qualified herbalist (NCMH) - they have several years intensive training and are aware of contraindications, etc. It certainly gave her a psychological boost and was also able to lessen some of the more unpleasant side effects of chemotherapy - a few drops of tincture of myrrh in a glass of water, used as a mouth wash, is an alternative and effective treatment for thrush.

Reiki I believe is the pyramid selling of the New Age world, though now most people will 'attune' for free. In the early days it was a case of "Pay £6,000 to get your Reiki III Master and then you can charge other people £6,000 each to get theirs". I do believe there is something there with Reiki, but it's not something I've ever been comfortable with.

I am even more cynical about crystals. How can something that has been blasted from the ground (possibly in life-threatening conditions for those finding them), polished in a commercial setting and then flogged for many times its value in a hippy shop, have any healing properties? I treat them as pretty rocks which are pleasing to look at.

So I think my answer is that some alternative therapies can be very effective, some are probably working on the placebo effect. I'd be interested if any of the sceptics who have joined the thread have ever come across any papers on the placebo effect. Why is it that sometimes the body can literally seem to 'fix itself' just because of a thought process? Have any scientists ever investigated quite how this happens? I'd love to read more on that.

I agree with the psychological boost. But I also believe that some people are more sensitive & accepting to some forms of medicine & treatment than others. Everyone is different...as is their beliefs.