yoga helps.....( not an expert ) but...........it makes the blood flow better .......right down to your toes and finger tips....fill your lungs full of fresh air and hold it for as long as you can..( .you can feel it doing you good )...THEN LET IT OUT SLOWLY.
In Chinese Medicine and Chinese Martial Arts this stuff is known as Chi Kong (Qi Gong), you knew that right? And it does work!!! Energy follows attention and it is ultimately, the energy flow in the meridians that determines the health and structural integrity of the tissues. Sort of like standing waves in water holding particles of dust, sand, organic debris, in some set pattern, the Qi pattern hold the physical body. Also, vis versa of course which is why a good whack on a part will distort the Qi flow and if it gets stuck, you then may need treatment or at least some time for things to sort themselves out back to normal.
But heck ya, esp as get older, doing mind/body integration exercises, breathing exercises, Yoga, all that, will really give you long term benefit for health and keeping vital as you get really really old…creeeeeeeeeeekkkkkk…
yup kayu, that yoga technique is somewhat ‘standard’ both in karate & aikido– weird but with buddhism crossing over to china from india centuries ago, seems like all that shaolin temple kung fu stuff never crossed over to the other side. the indian yoginis probably thought, why fight when you can levitate & walk through walls hehe
cheers,
which reminds me, how long have you been into chinese medicine doc? what convinced you to learn all that stuff?
heck with chinese acupuncture alone, the pinprick positions & combinations you gotta mind both front & backside is staggering. been wanting to try bringing down my uric acid levels via that route but the risk of getting the wrong nerve hit by an ‘expert’ keeps me from going through with it
Well, long story short, interested since wee small, maybe 4th grade and reading dusty books in back of bookstore no one else looked at about martial arts and yoga. Always wanted to be the old guy w/ the long white hair and beard who would come down out of the mtns and heal the sick and raise the dead etc. Side tracked by cultural programming, then deprogrammed w/ guru chasing and well, LSD etc and ended up in Chinese Medicine school in my late 30’s. Graduated in 1988. Along the way, Aikido, Kung-fu, lotsa meditation, weird dietary experiments…
Really, those pins are VERY safe. Hypodermic needles are much thicker and designed to cut tissue and put something thru the hole it makes. Acu needles are very thin and flexible. If something in the way, they tend to bend and go around it and also, since so thin, w/ only low grade skills you can easily feel the resistance and so you STOP and regroup. I would avoid MD’s and Chiropractors who have only taken a weekend course or a month long training and hung out an acupuncture shingle as they are really the one’s likely to harm you if anyone though even there, pretty darn safe. Of course, insist on disposable needles out of new, sterile pkg every time! That is the standard since about 1987 w/ AIDS and Hep-C awareness and all.
All that said, acupuncture is best for acute problems, energy stuck, pain, bruising, sprains, broken bones, swelling etc. For prevention, and more chronic stuff herbs much more likely to help as you want a more prolonged, steady push on your energy system to shift you more permanently to a new, improved position or style of functioning.
hehe my kind of doc! " )
a lil’ bit of curiosity helps as long as it doesn’t harm ya, i always say-- hmmm anything you can share about salvia divinorum?
not to hijack this supposedly medical thread but i’ve never ever ever ever had the curiosity to try psychotropic substances whether illegal or legal to see how they work, but salvia ! hehe for once i’d like to try surfing the cosmos and be back in one piece AND lucid to boot " )
TWO ASPIRINS AND ONE COFFE helps a lot to concentrate!
Antidepressiv´s are ok for stoping the shaking heads (they´re forbiden on Olympic´s archery by some reason!!)
get a doctor!! propably you are tired or to much nervous....bot things are normal to happen at the same time! (ME!)
oye luis,
dr. strange probably has interesting things to say about taking aspirin with coffee hehe folks with some salvia divinorum experience, time to speak up! " )
cheers,
Is salvia still legal? I am quite sure it will not provide any gateways to ultimate truth LOL! I am pretty into “spiritual cultivation” which is just a long, slow, do the work, type of project. Herbal (and even chemical) “helpers” can, if used w/ proper focus and intent, give someone some insight or motivation and then, I think it was Alan Watts said, “Once ;you get the message, hang up the phone.” I think salvia is likely pretty safe if used w/ proper intent and in a very safe space but definitely NOT a recreational substance. It seems to be used as the latter quite a bit and I think that way lies much more danger.
This is off the point a bit but a good friend of mine, well, he’s a very busy sander, when he needs a pick me up/pain relief. He takes a 3 Panadeen or Nurofene (with codene) and a big red bull. “No pain and, yeww max energy”… can’t be to good for you. ha ha.
I’m not sure whether to believe that, caffeine is supposed to constrict blood vessels. Or maybe its more a case of I don’t want to believe it.
I’ve never tried red bull but its supposed to have heaps of caffeine in it.
about a month ago I mildy tweaked my back surfing, but didn’t notice any discomfort the next morning and went out for an ollie popping session on my skateboard. At the end of my flat-ground skate session I realised that the combination of injury and ollies (an explosive move) had done something nasty to my back 
So I went on the internet to find a safe anti-inflammatory and discovered that aspirin and caffeine is a common combination that is meant to be more effective than aspirin alone for pain. So I swallowed some Aspirin and followed it up with a Long Black. I think it helped but its hard to know how much. My back is alright now.
I’ve had a number of minor injuries over the years and have come to realise that an essential part of the cure is rest from the activity that caused it. Rest is a frustrating solution but there seems to be no subsitute. Not overdoing things seems to be the best prevention. I’m being quite careful not to overdo things at the moment because being well into middle age has made me more fragile. However its hard to know exactly how far I am pushing the boundaries so I expect I will hurt myself again at some point in the future.
some of the flew pills manufacturers put aspirin with coffee sot the metabolism go up...
don´t worry of that if you don´t have hart problems..
This is just to jack you up so you don’t notice how sick you are and will still go to work (oops and spread it around) instead of doing what your body really wants and needs to do which is rest. Oh well, live fast, maybe still live a long time, but be really miserable and not so great looking when you are old…
heya yorky, codeine with red bull ?
hmm i wonder what that combo does to the body, but i’m not that curious to try it hehe " )
one time i went surfing amped on my own ‘brew’-- orange juice blended with gatorade, spiked with a couple of sachets of energy drink powder-- but while waiting for the sets to roll in, i got so edgy i felt like i needed to whack some people in the lineup ! dropped energy drinks from my grocery list right after that " )
not as you think....
I´v been around for.... 50 years.... and twice a year full check-up, ecocardiogram, etc, etc...
until now still works fine (with a lot of pains, but controllated!!)
PREVENTION is the best medicine ! not tacking care when you´re hill
One meal by day is totally complet full diet!
the rest of the day, is the normal trying not to make excesses and keep some training over the week;
i’ve always been curious about ritual substances used by shamans & ‘mediums’ in the line of duty-- peyote, psychotropic mushrooms et al-- but salvia seems the ‘safest’ to try (not being a shaman myself hehe).
compared to fever-induced hallucinations that don’t make sense at all (they just tell you you’re sick and need to rest it off, which is the only thing that makes sense), from what i’ve read of salvia it seems to offer a range of out-of-this-world experiences that are also ‘meaningful’, however in symbolic terms. kinda like what surfing brings me " )
cheers,
hehe when that time comes mr J, who you gonna call? " )
With all due respect to the responders here, does anybody really think that an online surfboard design forum is a good way to diagnose/treat potentially serious medical problems? I am always amazed at the variety of home brewed remedies that are brought up when no one has even so much as laid eyes on the 'patient.'
It could easily be a simple case of overuse but it could be a case of something more serious. Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease come to mind. I'm not saying you have either one, just that tremors are commonly seen in both. Green Tea, acupuncture, Salvia, Red Bull, or whatever isn't likely to help in either case.
Michael J Fox is an example of a young person having Parkinson's so it isn't just an 'old people' disease.
I am repeating myself as I've said it before when medical issues are brought up here......
See a doctor.
Excellent! Also though, to make a side point on a pet peeve, Fox was first diagnosed w/ Lyme disease and treated w/ a most likely inadequate course of antibiotics (too short, not high enough dosage) and pronounced cured. Often, when that is done, the symptoms remit awhile then come back as chronic “mystery disease” that can mimic many and varied others. One of those is Parkinson’s! No one want to hear about this esp since the conventional treatment for chronic lyme is crazy expensive and long term, also not terribly effective and fraught w/ side effects. There are also a lot of alt.treatments some all of which work for some people, none of which work for everyone, but their main virtue is minimal side effects.
It seemed to me from post that Surfiber has seen a doctor and kind of reached a dead end there?