Crystal healing for chron's?

[hippie4lyfe]

crystal healing for chron's?

Has anyone tried any complementary alternative practices such as crystal healing with chron's? I use crystals for meditation, and healing and was thinking perhaps I should try using them for Chron's. Anyone into crystal healing or can recommend a particular crystal?

 

[jed]

i have a really good doctor, been my family doc for 40 years (dont know where we'll go when he retires soon) and he's really open to any thing that can help his patients get better.

when i asked him about natural therapies for crohns, colitus and arthritus, he said

"if it makes you happy to do those things, then the happiness may bring a little release for you, but if any of those things really worked it would be worldwide knowledge"

i kinda agree with him.

but at the same time, i wont dismiss or look down on people who try these things, to each their own

 

[hippie4lyfe]

its an interesting point but i dont know if it would necessarily be worldwide knowledge.

we know a vegetarian diet is a great preventative diet against cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, blood pressure, and obesity but people still eat animal proteins.

we know smoking causes lung cancer but people still do it.

so i guess just because something is good or works doesnt mean people will do it or believe it.

 

[Colt]

But people recognize that smoking causes cancer. They just accept that they will probably get cancer.

Nutritionists also know very well the advantage of being vegetarian and most people know it's better. They just really like the taste of meat. It's the same reason people eat greasy potato chips and twinkies even though there's no debate about how unhealthy they are.

No legitimate scientist recognizes that crystals work because they don't. They always fail objective scientific experimentation which is the only test of truth there is. Even the practitioners know it's not real because it requires that they do certain social engineering tricks to make it seem real to you.

If it was the same thing then people would know that crystals work and just refuse to use them but that's not the case.

 

[hippie4lyfe]

I don't know crystals have been used for thousands of years for healing and are still an integral part of eastern medicine and holistic healing.

Even though much of it might be placebo effect, there are no bad side effects that can come of trying it. I think the mind is powerful so even if I take a penny and put it to my head if I believe its healing me it probably is. Thats just my opinion but I buy into philosophies like the secret and the power of mind and suggestion. To each their own.

 

[hippie4lyfe]

Pen - crystals are gemstones, those pretty little rocks and minerals.

http://healing.about.com/od/crystaltherapy/a/crystaltherapy.htm

 

[BWS1982]

I don't eat meat because it tastes good. You ever eaten plain tuna and chicken breast out of a can twice a day every day indefinitely? A vegetarian diet "on average" I would say is healthier "on average" than the a meat eater's diet, but you can be a "health nut" and eat plenty O meat, like I did/do (can't eat too much food nowadays). I can eat a plethora of meat daily and get around the same nutritional statistics as any vegetarian, because I know what's in what I consume...you can break it down to sat fat levels and all...I can eat to any goal because it's about research. So saying "we know vegetarianism is superior" (yes I've paraphrased) is a bit one-sided.

On the topic of crystals....regardless of clinical results (which I suspect aren't that great), if it provides some sort of psychosomatic relief or even physical relief, do what pleases you. To each their own.

 

[Colt]

The problem with the traditionalist fallacy is that we have things like mercury (A.K.A. Colloidal Silver) which people have eaten for thousands of years as a cure for intestinal illnesses and has been consistently proven to do nothing but kill thousands of people every year. It doesn't matter how many people die, people won't stop drinking poison because some health food store clerk or book writing guru said to do it.