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My wife is big into essential oils. She initially bought into the hype. Interestingly the company she started to buy from, has soured her due to their business
by Trisell 12y ago
My wife is big into essential oils. She initially bought into the hype. Interestingly the company she started to buy from, has soured her due to their business practices. Among other things selling "pure" oils, that really are not as pure as the claim.
I will say this when she first started with them, I thought it was all voodoo and witchcraft, but after using various oils, I find that certain ones do give relief of certain symptoms. Like we have a blend that "aides" digestion. And when I have heartburn, I rub it on my stomach and within 15 minutes feel better. Is it magic, I have no idea, but it seems to work.
But I also still believe in traditional medicine. If I have an ear infection I'm not going to pour oil in my ear, I'm going to go see a Dr and get a prescription to fix it. I think that there is a group of people out there who are so turned off by the western medical system, that they are looking for anything that they can hook on too, to hopefully provide them with a means to not have to participate in the system.
- codyb 12y agoThat's a pragmatic approach drawing information from the sources available and not drawing a hard line anywhere. I've never been able to understand people's tendency to insist on extremes. If you're Republican, everything Democrat is bad, and vice versa. If you are an advocate for Eastern medicine all doctors are quacks. Yadda yadda yadda. These may be extreme and a bit simplified but the tendency seems to run strong in some point. Although, to put it in another frame, perhaps the people more likely to espouse their views are also the ones more likely to take a strong stance which means as a result I tend not to hear from the more pragmatic among us.