Titan
20th November 2004, 02:33 PM
OK, I thought I'd share some of my meeting with a homepath and afterwards. It's originally something I'd probably not do. I'd be wondering too much on how and why it works and I'm still in disbelief.
About 2 years ago, a friend that I train some on the mat with out of the blue said I should go see this homeopath. No real reason for him saying it as I had no problems. I thought it sounded interesting. He said he'd gotten rid of an allergy he had after it. I'm thinking that's cool, but I also know some vertebraes can cause allergies and be released by chiropractors (I've had that done.)
About two months ago, my chiropractor who is a very serious guy with medical education said out of the blue he was going to see that homeopath. No real reason for him saying it either, so I'm thinking "alright, alright, I'll go there." I call to set an appointment, and I get a time about 2 months from the phonecall. Obviously a lot of people that go see him, and I've heard of some waiting over 6 months to get a time.
I get there and meet an ordinary looking guy with a pleasant office. No crystals, magical stones, or other things in the office. An old book about homeopathy together with the medical index on his desk. We sit down and he asks me a lot of questions to see what he can help me with and I'm telling him what's up. That my problem is since 4 years back, I feel kinda burned out and I don't really care about things and have no motivation, and I get tensions in my body that causes stress and headaches. It's all from working too hard. I give some background about what I do, like working, fighting, and so on. He asks stuff like "do you like to eat, what food do you like?" and my answer is simply that I just eat to get nutrition and don't really care about taste and enjoying the food. He asks about training and competing, and I just say I'm not motivated at all to be doing it, but I make my way down there to stay in it. I don't compete anymore, I tell him, and he asks why. Actually asked a lot about that. Then he says "ok, what I see is your chi is really low and I'll put some stuff together for you to increase it. You take it for one month, and then you take this other brew for another month. First will get your chi up, and second will release your tensions." I'm not sure why he used the word "chi". Could be because I fight and he wanted to relate, or could be because he's into that himself. So I'm sitting there and he goes away to mix something. Comes back with some small bottles and says "take 30 drops of this bottle each morning, should last a month, then take 30 drops of the second bottle."
Alright, so I know all about he placebo effect and things, but the first night I took it and went to bed ... when I closed my eyes, I was dramatically calm. My mind in particular was concentrated and could concentrate simply on falling asleep. It was very pleasant, but I'd preferred a bit more than a 7 hour sleep. Nothing more that day. Day after I sit at my desk in the evening and start feeling some really weird like energy buzz going through the body. It's especially focused in my left knee, creating like a vibrational buzz in it. Really difficult to explain. I've had problems with my knees all throughout the kicking and stuff, varying from locking up to hyperextending to just being a complete mess. I'm not in pain in the knees anything, but when something messes up there, it takes time to heal. I had a little problem with the knee since last Sunday when I blocked a kick kinda lousily with it, but never thought about it more. Not sure whether it's related or not.
The third day, I wake up and my left eye is killing me from tension. I had that happen to me before this summer. It gets extremely sore and sensitive. Getting light on it hurts and the whole eye is red just like Sapp's was after Cro Cop. Like Sapp, I've been sporting a pirate patch on the eye when it happens to keep the light out. It keeps getting worse and hurts like crazy. I saw the doctor the last time it happened and they had no idea what had caused it. This time, I'm just letting it be. Regardless of this problem, I go down to do a bit of sparring. I was thinking about going light, so I wore no shinguards. My opponent picked up the pace so I threw a heavy rear leg lowkick. And it connected with his knee that really sunk in on the shin and muscle by the shin towards the inside of my leg. He just looks at me and asks "are you wearing shinguards?" and I go "no, and it hurt like hell." I've got a history of being unable to stand on my leg after throwing kicks like that, and normally I'm out for weeks. Last time I had to rest 4 weeks just to be able to go back and spar with shinguards on. I looked down on my leg and it had two shallow cuts on the shin and a fist-sized blue bruise. So, little me thinks it figures and I won't be doing any sparring on Sunday. The real weird thing is when our session is through and I pull up my pantleg for us to look at the leg, and there's no bruise there. There's swelling, but no bruise at all. Not blue, yellow, or even faded yellow. Just some swelling.
I get home, hit the sacks on this Friday night, and I get an amazing 12 hours of sleep. At ordinary, I wake up early on Saturdays and curse myself for not getting more sleep. I take some of that mystic brew and I go downtown. I feel great. There is not A SINGLE BRUISE on my shin. The swelling has gotten hard and I can push my hand against the shin, press down, and stroke hard without feeling pain. I press down on the swelling and it doesn't bother me. It's a hard swelling and not really painful. I can feel that I kicked into something hard when I punch on the shin (had to test) but other than that, it's flawless. This is something that normally would put me 4 weeks at least out of the game. No sparring and no nothing. Can walk straight at best. This time I'm ready to spar again this weekend. I'm not sure whether I just hit the leg at the exact right spot for efficient healing and minimum damage, but it didn't feel that way. It's just weird. Could be I hit it "just right" or could be that the stuff I'm taking is actually working.
This is the fourth day I'm taking that stuff. 30 drops each morning. The main ingredient is "Humulus" and it has 30% alcohol in the mix. Humulus is supposed to have a relaxing effect. This first bottle is LM2-strength. I had my friend research it, and seems like it means it has as little Humulus in it as possible, and the belief is that it'll have an opposite effect because of that. I.e. increasing your energy instead of relaxing you. The second bottle contains more Humulus, and I'm assuming that'd have a relaxing effect. And I got a third bottle for the last month that contains a bit more Humulus. For some people, it takes months for this to have any effect, and I've been like "right, that's the placebo effect you start feeling by then." But I'm actually seeing some things happen from day 1. It's hard for me to believe, but it looks like something is happening. The homeopath guaranteed effects, and I respect him for that. Some would say "it may or may not work, it depends on you", but he said "oh, you'll feel it." I've not been desperate to believe, and I just did this with a very skeptical mind, kinda vice versa mind over matter. I want matter to show me some evidence of it working. I feel good right now, and have slept like I haven't in a long time, and experiencing these physical sensations I mentioned. Not sure what to think ... right now, it looks like it's proving itself to me. I'll keep on taking it and see what happens.
This first meeting, we just talked and put together this mix to help me out. We're meeting again in February next year, and he's expecting me to be better by then cause we'd look at some other things, like the eye-analysis they do and other things. He also has a medical education and has spent a ton of his own money to educate himself in the field of medicine and later homeopathy. A very serious guy, not somebody that went a weekend course somewhere and got a diploma and license to practice homeopathy. I'm saying that because I know like with everything else, finding the really good ones can be difficult. I'll definitely keep you guys updated on if and when more weird things happen.
Is there anybody else out there that's gone to see a homeopath and/or have any opinions on the subject?
About 2 years ago, a friend that I train some on the mat with out of the blue said I should go see this homeopath. No real reason for him saying it as I had no problems. I thought it sounded interesting. He said he'd gotten rid of an allergy he had after it. I'm thinking that's cool, but I also know some vertebraes can cause allergies and be released by chiropractors (I've had that done.)
About two months ago, my chiropractor who is a very serious guy with medical education said out of the blue he was going to see that homeopath. No real reason for him saying it either, so I'm thinking "alright, alright, I'll go there." I call to set an appointment, and I get a time about 2 months from the phonecall. Obviously a lot of people that go see him, and I've heard of some waiting over 6 months to get a time.
I get there and meet an ordinary looking guy with a pleasant office. No crystals, magical stones, or other things in the office. An old book about homeopathy together with the medical index on his desk. We sit down and he asks me a lot of questions to see what he can help me with and I'm telling him what's up. That my problem is since 4 years back, I feel kinda burned out and I don't really care about things and have no motivation, and I get tensions in my body that causes stress and headaches. It's all from working too hard. I give some background about what I do, like working, fighting, and so on. He asks stuff like "do you like to eat, what food do you like?" and my answer is simply that I just eat to get nutrition and don't really care about taste and enjoying the food. He asks about training and competing, and I just say I'm not motivated at all to be doing it, but I make my way down there to stay in it. I don't compete anymore, I tell him, and he asks why. Actually asked a lot about that. Then he says "ok, what I see is your chi is really low and I'll put some stuff together for you to increase it. You take it for one month, and then you take this other brew for another month. First will get your chi up, and second will release your tensions." I'm not sure why he used the word "chi". Could be because I fight and he wanted to relate, or could be because he's into that himself. So I'm sitting there and he goes away to mix something. Comes back with some small bottles and says "take 30 drops of this bottle each morning, should last a month, then take 30 drops of the second bottle."
Alright, so I know all about he placebo effect and things, but the first night I took it and went to bed ... when I closed my eyes, I was dramatically calm. My mind in particular was concentrated and could concentrate simply on falling asleep. It was very pleasant, but I'd preferred a bit more than a 7 hour sleep. Nothing more that day. Day after I sit at my desk in the evening and start feeling some really weird like energy buzz going through the body. It's especially focused in my left knee, creating like a vibrational buzz in it. Really difficult to explain. I've had problems with my knees all throughout the kicking and stuff, varying from locking up to hyperextending to just being a complete mess. I'm not in pain in the knees anything, but when something messes up there, it takes time to heal. I had a little problem with the knee since last Sunday when I blocked a kick kinda lousily with it, but never thought about it more. Not sure whether it's related or not.
The third day, I wake up and my left eye is killing me from tension. I had that happen to me before this summer. It gets extremely sore and sensitive. Getting light on it hurts and the whole eye is red just like Sapp's was after Cro Cop. Like Sapp, I've been sporting a pirate patch on the eye when it happens to keep the light out. It keeps getting worse and hurts like crazy. I saw the doctor the last time it happened and they had no idea what had caused it. This time, I'm just letting it be. Regardless of this problem, I go down to do a bit of sparring. I was thinking about going light, so I wore no shinguards. My opponent picked up the pace so I threw a heavy rear leg lowkick. And it connected with his knee that really sunk in on the shin and muscle by the shin towards the inside of my leg. He just looks at me and asks "are you wearing shinguards?" and I go "no, and it hurt like hell." I've got a history of being unable to stand on my leg after throwing kicks like that, and normally I'm out for weeks. Last time I had to rest 4 weeks just to be able to go back and spar with shinguards on. I looked down on my leg and it had two shallow cuts on the shin and a fist-sized blue bruise. So, little me thinks it figures and I won't be doing any sparring on Sunday. The real weird thing is when our session is through and I pull up my pantleg for us to look at the leg, and there's no bruise there. There's swelling, but no bruise at all. Not blue, yellow, or even faded yellow. Just some swelling.
I get home, hit the sacks on this Friday night, and I get an amazing 12 hours of sleep. At ordinary, I wake up early on Saturdays and curse myself for not getting more sleep. I take some of that mystic brew and I go downtown. I feel great. There is not A SINGLE BRUISE on my shin. The swelling has gotten hard and I can push my hand against the shin, press down, and stroke hard without feeling pain. I press down on the swelling and it doesn't bother me. It's a hard swelling and not really painful. I can feel that I kicked into something hard when I punch on the shin (had to test) but other than that, it's flawless. This is something that normally would put me 4 weeks at least out of the game. No sparring and no nothing. Can walk straight at best. This time I'm ready to spar again this weekend. I'm not sure whether I just hit the leg at the exact right spot for efficient healing and minimum damage, but it didn't feel that way. It's just weird. Could be I hit it "just right" or could be that the stuff I'm taking is actually working.
This is the fourth day I'm taking that stuff. 30 drops each morning. The main ingredient is "Humulus" and it has 30% alcohol in the mix. Humulus is supposed to have a relaxing effect. This first bottle is LM2-strength. I had my friend research it, and seems like it means it has as little Humulus in it as possible, and the belief is that it'll have an opposite effect because of that. I.e. increasing your energy instead of relaxing you. The second bottle contains more Humulus, and I'm assuming that'd have a relaxing effect. And I got a third bottle for the last month that contains a bit more Humulus. For some people, it takes months for this to have any effect, and I've been like "right, that's the placebo effect you start feeling by then." But I'm actually seeing some things happen from day 1. It's hard for me to believe, but it looks like something is happening. The homeopath guaranteed effects, and I respect him for that. Some would say "it may or may not work, it depends on you", but he said "oh, you'll feel it." I've not been desperate to believe, and I just did this with a very skeptical mind, kinda vice versa mind over matter. I want matter to show me some evidence of it working. I feel good right now, and have slept like I haven't in a long time, and experiencing these physical sensations I mentioned. Not sure what to think ... right now, it looks like it's proving itself to me. I'll keep on taking it and see what happens.
This first meeting, we just talked and put together this mix to help me out. We're meeting again in February next year, and he's expecting me to be better by then cause we'd look at some other things, like the eye-analysis they do and other things. He also has a medical education and has spent a ton of his own money to educate himself in the field of medicine and later homeopathy. A very serious guy, not somebody that went a weekend course somewhere and got a diploma and license to practice homeopathy. I'm saying that because I know like with everything else, finding the really good ones can be difficult. I'll definitely keep you guys updated on if and when more weird things happen.
Is there anybody else out there that's gone to see a homeopath and/or have any opinions on the subject?