Pressure Points of the body

[Chicky]

Fair enough Dan, you seem to know what you're talking about. I knew someone who mainly suffered when it came to sleeping strangely enough, which is why i was skeptical about meditation.

Marijuana is a painkiller FYI, not just stress relieving.

[Danman]

Well I know what you talking about with marijuana cause well where I live marijuana is like a cigarette ( Not that i smoke). Most people I know who smoke it say it helps with stress and relaxing.

Meditation is just the best way for most people cause not everyone thinks I have a migraine let me smoke some ganja. if you know what I mean.

anyway all i am saying is that is what worked for me.

[Calin Leafshade]

Chicky are you aware that weed is a controlled substance in the United Kingdom?

I shall be keeping my eye on you and will report you to the necessary authorities if needed.

IT'S FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY!

[/joking]

[Atelier]

LOL

[ddq]

No matter how many times I see this thread, I always read the topic as "Pleasure Points of the body."

[Domino]

Every time I see this thread I miss-read it as 'Pleasure Points of the body'.

So does Layabout.

[RetroJay]

There ya go.
I changed the subject.
Ok so I spelled 'Pressure' wrong.

[ddq]

Haha, what are the odds of that?

[auriond]

Just so that direct questions to me don't go unanswered:

I am a proponent of science and mainstream medicine. I have said three times, but I don't mind saying again, that if I fell ill I would see a DOCTOR, and not a sinseh. I have the highest respect for scientists and doctors.

However, that does not mean I would put my whole faith in science and science alone. If it makes anyone feel better, I have an even deeper mistrust of alternative medicine than I have of science. As I've said upthread, I've never had reflexology or acupuncture myself. Clarityne has kept my sinus problems at bay, not reflexology. But if Clarityne had failed, I would likely have gone on to seek other methods, so long as it's fairly safe. It's a perfectly acceptable recourse where I live.

So IF Jay's question had been different, I would have given him a much different answer.

edit: With Jay's permission, I'm back in the fray! Hooray for intellectual debate!

Snarky: Very good point indeed, but it's not exactly what I was getting at with the leech example. My point was that it took science this long to figure out what leeches were really good for. Why did it take them this long? I don't know for sure, but I could suggest a few reasons: Could be because technology was simply not available for us to figure out the real benefits of using leeches. Or, could be that for decades, the very fact that science pronounced leeches useless discouraged people from conducting further investigation as to what else leeches might be used for. Still, science has done no harm, right? But for those few decades, people who could have benefited from leeches, didn't, because science had turned away from them. Except, of course, for those who might have kept an open mind and tried leeches for various purposes despite popular (at that time) medical opinion that it was an old, useless method of "treatment".

In short, yes, I'm skeptical of science, but I'm also skeptical of alternative medicine. It's simply a matter of degree of skepticism - I am MORE skeptical of traditional medicine than I am of science. At the same time, I see no harm in trying one where the other has failed. Still, I would propose mainstream science before alternative medicine.

[Calin Leafshade]

Being skeptical of science is the *only* way to be. You should always examine the evidence and never accept things at face value.

However, you can apply the scientific method to all walks of life, including alternative medicine. Saying that science can't deal with alternative medicine posits the idea that alternative medicine is somehow 'out there' or 'on another plane' or something.

If you are a materialist then you believe that alternative medicine must work by chemical processes and thus they can be observed scientifically. They ARE science in that sense.

If however you believe in some flavour of dualism then the mechanics of alternative medicine might be otherworldly in some sense but the *effects* will still be statistically recordable and therefore science can still comment on their effectiveness.. which thus far has been zilcho.

[Layabout]

You would could mix it up a bit and talk about the pleasure points of the body. I am quite fond of the fun slide. You know the bit that goes from your pelvis to your...

[Andail]

But has the fun slide been scientifically proven?

[Babar]

Talking about pleasure points in the body .
"The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it."

(I get all my information from xkcd )

[auriond]

And how... exactly... did they hunt for it?

[Calin Leafshade]

with a wetsuit and a divers helmet.

[auriond]

Thank goodness. I was half afraid someone would say with a pickaxe and helmet.

[Layabout]

How do scientists know? Everyone knows scientists can't get laid.

[Stupot]

Danman, i think you are getting migraines confused with headaches. It's a common mistake but migraines are in fact not just a really bloody bad headache but full blown reflex vomiting, loss of sight and weeks without sleep.

This was my point in my earlier post.  I wasn't really disputing the existence of the migraine, just pointing out that probably 90% of people who say they have a migraine are just being hyperchondriacs.  Ive had bad headaches... I've sometimes had a bit of nausea alongside them, but a Mars Bar and a glass of water usually does wonders... I wouldn't diagnose myself with a migraine until it knocked me out of bed screaming.

[Layabout]

Hey man, this thread has moved on. It's now about Pleasure points of the body, not migraines. Get with the roaring 10's.

[Haddas]

The pleasure points on the body should be something like this:




That is if my memory serves me right. It's been a while since I've had biology