Wortcunning

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA my fingers are freezing and I can see my breath in the air! Why is the bedroom so cold...
Cos our boiler is broken. Let it snow some more!! I LOVE WINTER!!!

Yesterday I went to an introduction to Homeopathy at Sneinton Hermitage Centre cos I've been thinking about plants and herbal medicine and all this kind of stuff lately. I had a talk with Little Bob about it the other night and he told me all about the Peruvian bark and how it causes malaria-like symptoms and is what is used as a cure for malaria... I never really knew about it before. The woman yesterday, Anne Barker, who is a practicing homeopath, told us all about the laws of similars in treatment, about how remedies are made and about the general principles of approaching 'dis-ease' in a holistic way by looking at the person's whole physiology and temperament. I guess this is all well-known but I'm finding it all more and more interesting. The most amazing bit was about the doctrine of signatures, where you can look for things in the world that have a form representing the thing they can have healing properties for. Like conkers, shiny and round, which apparently are a good treatment for piles n haemorrhoids... and hypericum, a plant whose dark-green leaves at certain times of the year become full of tiny blood-red spots (which secrete the essential oils) - this plant is useful for puncture wounds especially in areas rich in nerve-endings. Mad stuff. And she said the substances being used in remedies in homeopathy are constantly being added to as they want to create treatments that respond more to life nowadays... so there has been a remedy made from plutonium (apparently the bottles of tincture made from this started exploding in the lab).

I like it!! I go looking for herbs...

And hurrah the boilerman is here. WooWOO!

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