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Not related to beans, but I had serious issues with bloating, gas and bad smell comparable to sewage. It went on for years until I had a short massage to adjust
by dsego 6mo ago
Not related to beans, but I had serious issues with bloating, gas and bad smell comparable to sewage. It went on for years until I had a short massage to adjust my stomach, the lady was pushing and shifting things around. This was a few months ago. Ever since I haven't had that type of gas, and I burp now which I haven't for years. I didn't change my diet at all.
- TurdF3rguson 6mo agoAre you a Batman villain by any chance?
- thisislife2 6mo agoWas this a normal body massage, where they also worked on your stomach or specifically a massage for the stomach promising a cure for your specific issues?
- xeromal 6mo agoSounds like the massage moved his intestines around
- thisislife2 6mo agoI understood that. Just wanted to know if the masseuse specifically pitched the idea to OP, after hearing his complaint or whether it was just a happy co-incidence.
- dsego 6mo agoIt's a specific alternative therapy, a traditional practice associated with adjusting or repositioning the stomach in folk healing. The woman who performed this on me is a physiotherapist.
- thisislife2 5mo agoThanks for clarifying it - does this alternative therapy have a name?
- dsego 5mo agoHonestly, I don't know, translated it would be stomach alignment, it was popularized by a traditional healer and herbalist nun who lived in Bosnia.
- ikesau 6mo agoYears of digestive issues resolved by a single massage? I've never heard of an outcome like that before. Could you explain more about how it worked and what this lady's approach purported to do? Who was she? Genuinely curious!
- dsego 6mo agoSounded like alternative medicine, but it was supposedly centering my stomach or adjusting the intestines to be in their optimal place, e.g. some people have organ displacement, the stomach is too low or too high, and somehow that affects digestion and health.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 6mo agoDid the massage trigger a giant fart? I would be terrified of somebody massaging my stomach, lol
- dsego 6mo agoIt felt uncomfortable and I needed to pass gas but managed to hold it.
- ButlerianJihad 6mo agoThere are yoga poses that can be done solo, that have the effect of massaging internal organs. This can also be helpful for the lymphatic system, in which lymph circulates passively, encouraged by movement of the relevant body parts.
- aziaziazi 6mo agoDo you know the name of those poses by chance?
- jamwil 6mo agoPlease say more; this is breaking my brain.
- MrDresden 6mo agoNot my field, but I wonder if this could have been a case of a bezoar of some kind, perhaps Phytobezoar[0], that got loosened by the massage? After seeing reports[1] a few years back about the use of Coke as a non invasive way to clean these out, I now drink the stuff when my stomach is upset. With n=1 I can report it has a real effect on me. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytobezoar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytobezoar [1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3292399/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3292399/