I remember catching up with an old high school girl who was one of the group I started TM with.
And I was telling her how I would suffer through occasional headaches for many years during my MIU days. Finally, I told her I capitulated and started taking aspirin, and it was like a miracle drug. It still is. I have a bottle on the kitchen counter, and one in my car. And sometimes I might take ibuprofen. But, those two would be the only two medications I take, on occasion. Oh, and I have a small half used, 1 oz. tin of AWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Colloidal Silver But, I haven't had to use that in about a year. (-: ---In [email protected], <anartaxius@...> wrote : Originally salicyclic acid was used but it was so corrosive to the stomach that it was sometimes worse than the cure. Aspirin was first created in 1853, but its medical use came later on. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/BayerHeroin.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/BayerHeroin.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/BayerHeroin.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Bayer... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/BayerHeroin.png View on upload.wikimedia.org http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/BayerHeroin.png Preview by Yahoo ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : My aspirin story from the TM days is pretty funny, in retrospect. I was attending an ATR course at Cobb Mountain and managed to get sick the last day there. I was so sick -- body aches, low fever, classic flu symptoms -- that I couldn't even drive back to Southern California, so I checked into a motel in the Bay Area and just laid low, hoping that the symptoms and the aches would pass so that I could drive the rest of the way back home. After a couple of days moaning and feeling awful, I was on a food run to the local 7-11 store and noticed that they had aspirin for sale. At that point I had bought into enough of the TM "don't have anything to do with Western medicine" stuff so that I hadn't taken an aspirin in years, but I was desperate so I bought a bottle and took a couple of them. Voila...like magic, the pains all went away and I felt good enough to drive home. I realized at that point that my previous three days of feeling like crap were all because I was too stupid to take an aspirin. Haven't made that mistake since. I was fortunate enough to bail from the TM trip long before the ayurveda crap arrived and people went completely bonkers over diet trips. Back in my day they served chicken at all the residence courses and ATR courses, and that suited me just fine. I spent a few years trying to be a vegetarian, but it never really "fit" my disposition very well, so I gave up on it and *all* diet trips and have just eaten what I felt like eating ever since. My last checkup seems to indicate that this "eat what feels good" philosophy has served me well and kept me pretty healthy, as opposed to many vegans and vegetarians I know who are sick all the time. I haven't even had a cold in a couple of years. From: ultrarishi <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 8:35 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Orthorexics of the world, unite! (and feel guilty about your lunch) Interesting article. My wife and I hang around a bunch of yoga folks who do not do TM. They are all all-over-the-map as it were when it comes to diet. Most of what I hear is bullshit and unscientific and most of them have problems with weight control. We got vegans, vegetarians, paleos and omnivores. My wife after successfully battling colon cancer a few years back decided to become vegan. I shared the video Forks Over Knives to give her some hope and she took to it much to my chagrin. She's a hard core vegan now while I'm still a regular old omnivore. She looks great and I think being vegan gives her a feeling (right or wrong) that she has some control over her life and that this might prevent a recurrence of the cancer or something new popping up. However, she is also harder to live with because of the "conversion". She's constantly indoctrinating herself with the vegan gospel ala Drs. Gerber, Bernard, and McDougal. She is very unforgiving and critical of fat people who eat poorly and doesn't trust anything in main stream medicine or media. I get where she is coming from and I can see the food and health connections and I am totally behind the crap big media feeds us about big pharma, big medicine, big agra, and big oil. But, I see vegans walking away from money on the table when it comes to common sense. Since I hit 55 I've doing the daily low dose aspirin regimen. It's cheap and slightly tilt the odds in my favor against a whole host of maladies. My wife, however, will not par take. She wants to believe the vegan diet will be enough, even though a study published in Lancet showed her cancer showed a 25% less chance of recurrence if a low dose aspirin was taken daily. I don't believe there is another drug for love or money that will give you that much of a hedge. ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : My aspirin story from the TM days is pretty funny, in retrospect. I was attending an ATR course at Cobb Mountain and managed to get sick the last day there. I was so sick -- body aches, low fever, classic flu symptoms -- that I couldn't even drive back to Southern California, so I checked into a motel in the Bay Area and just laid low, hoping that the symptoms and the aches would pass so that I could drive the rest of the way back home. After a couple of days moaning and feeling awful, I was on a food run to the local 7-11 store and noticed that they had aspirin for sale. At that point I had bought into enough of the TM "don't have anything to do with Western medicine" stuff so that I hadn't taken an aspirin in years, but I was desperate so I bought a bottle and took a couple of them. Voila...like magic, the pains all went away and I felt good enough to drive home. I realized at that point that my previous three days of feeling like crap were all because I was too stupid to take an aspirin. Haven't made that mistake since. I was fortunate enough to bail from the TM trip long before the ayurveda crap arrived and people went completely bonkers over diet trips. Back in my day they served chicken at all the residence courses and ATR courses, and that suited me just fine. I spent a few years trying to be a vegetarian, but it never really "fit" my disposition very well, so I gave up on it and *all* diet trips and have just eaten what I felt like eating ever since. My last checkup seems to indicate that this "eat what feels good" philosophy has served me well and kept me pretty healthy, as opposed to many vegans and vegetarians I know who are sick all the time. I haven't even had a cold in a couple of years. From: ultrarishi <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 8:35 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Orthorexics of the world, unite! (and feel guilty about your lunch) Interesting article. My wife and I hang around a bunch of yoga folks who do not do TM. They are all all-over-the-map as it were when it comes to diet. Most of what I hear is bullshit and unscientific and most of them have problems with weight control. We got vegans, vegetarians, paleos and omnivores. My wife after successfully battling colon cancer a few years back decided to become vegan. I shared the video Forks Over Knives to give her some hope and she took to it much to my chagrin. She's a hard core vegan now while I'm still a regular old omnivore. She looks great and I think being vegan gives her a feeling (right or wrong) that she has some control over her life and that this might prevent a recurrence of the cancer or something new popping up. However, she is also harder to live with because of the "conversion". She's constantly indoctrinating herself with the vegan gospel ala Drs. Gerber, Bernard, and McDougal. She is very unforgiving and critical of fat people who eat poorly and doesn't trust anything in main stream medicine or media. I get where she is coming from and I can see the food and health connections and I am totally behind the crap big media feeds us about big pharma, big medicine, big agra, and big oil. But, I see vegans walking away from money on the table when it comes to common sense. Since I hit 55 I've doing the daily low dose aspirin regimen. It's cheap and slightly tilt the odds in my favor against a whole host of maladies. My wife, however, will not par take. She wants to believe the vegan diet will be enough, even though a study published in Lancet showed her cancer showed a 25% less chance of recurrence if a low dose aspirin was taken daily. I don't believe there is another drug for love or money that will give you that much of a hedge.
