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OK, this is about a subject that, according to my Doctor, almost everyone involved will not talk about. So if the diea of talking about Hemorrhoids brings a 'Ewwww' reaction, perhaps go elsewhere?

I've had a growing problem with these for probably about 5 years now. I tried the pharmacy ointments etc and I was lucky in that I didn't have much pain at all. But they kept getting worse, in bursts you might say. Finally I spoke to the Doc about it and got told it is creams, suppositories or, in extreme cases, surgery.

So I turned to Google.

After some time I found a curious reference and went deeper. It was so off-the-wall I figured I would try it. 6 days later, marked improvement in size and decrease in discomfort. I then left the treatment for a week and things stayed good, so I took it up again.

(the break was to check on placebo effect - if I was somehow 'willing' improvement that week should have seen things regress, and it didn't)

I mentioned it to the Doc when i was there for another reason and he was a bit stunned and said, 'I can't tell my patients to do that' and I thought, 'why the hell not? If it works and you have nothing else to help, why not pass it along?' but I kept it to myself until I have a complete fix.

The treatment? Each morning, before I have anything else, I steam a whole banana till it is soft, then eat it. Skin included. I cut off the tough bits at the ends, and then I cut it up into bite size pieces and wait a bit for it to cool and eat the lot. Steaming takes about 10 - 15 minutes, depending on how high the heat is - when the skin splits it is just past done.

I do not know what it is in there that is so effective and I had to Google to make sure banana skin isn't poisonous in some way, but it works and does so quite rapidly. There are $70 - $120 bottles of 'special' pills out there that are supposed to work but you have to buy like 3 months worth. My bananas cost me about $4 for 6.

So for those who suffer, or if you know someone who has dared to let you know they have them, pass it along.

I got a bit worried when I read 'banana' I must admit. Thought things were about to get weird...
I don't have the affliction but will tell anyone brave enough to share their similar dilemma with me about your experiences. :-)
Bravo brave sir!

That's why I left the mention of banana till AFTER I had described the success...

Nice thread name.
great thread.

Do you eat it or is it a supository?

Well, if I had put hemorrhoids as the title it wouldn't ahve got many views. And it's one of those things people don't talk about and suffer in silence so finding what so far looks very much like a easy, quick and natural cure might help some folk.

Just to add to this (:D and bump it up a bit)... the reason I posted is because often in my life I have met people who have had bits of knowledge (the punny side of 'piles of information') that work. Things I have never seen published or heard of before but when I tried them, they fixed 'whatever.'

Medical issues particularly should be talked about - it is clear to even a casual observation that Medicine has no interest in anything like a cure. From Dr Hamer in Europe to Dr Hulda Clark in America, those claiming cures are chased from their jobs and often from their country.

Dr Hulda Clark wrote a book called 'The Cure For All Disease' in which she publishes technical info on a machine to kill the various infestations of viruses, amoeba, bacteria, and flukes that we gather from our lifestyle. Never mind she had several thousand people swearing by her invention, she was hounded out of the States with little to no unbiased testing of her claims. The 'evidence' against her was from people who, rather than using Science to see what was going on, set out to prove she couldn't have been doing what she did.

Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer had many thousands of cure histories to back his claim that all cancer comes from trauma; he documented specifics for each kind of cancer linking to various different traumas. For his painstaking work and documentation of successes he was stripped of his medical status and barred from working in Germany (with never the slightest hint he actually harmed anyone) and then had the same thing in France.

The forces that mobilise against anyone claiming to 'cure' anything are impressive in size and ferocity. Evidence against smoking dangers was suppressed for decades until it became politically correct to ban it. (& so drive up the taxes from the addicted) Evidence that 2nd hand smoking is NOT harmful got a severe reprimand and threat of dismissal and ostracism for the Editor in Chief of the British Medical Journal.

I think unless we spread the word of things we have tried and found to work, those methods, practices and treatments will disappear as our kids grow ever-more subservient to the mass media programming.

So I figure to make this a repository of those tidbits of data we pick up along the way.

Cancer: There are at least half a dozen cures for cancer I have heard of and/or seen evidence for. One that proves God has a vast sense of humour to match her ego is that nicotine kills cancers. Fast. Fully. Just get the nicotine to the cancer and the tumour dies. The problem is getting it to the cancer, but if you have a skin cancer, a bandage with nicotine can be applied.

Similarly is a much easier to get ingredient - baking soda kills cancers. Again the issue is getting it to the cancer, but it works.

We all have heard of 'Spontaneous Remission' cases in terminal illness. The one thing that seems a common factor I have seen is to change your mind. It isn't specific, nor am I promoting a particular way to think or believe, but all of the cases I have read involve the person finding a new way to view life and themselves. Sometimes it is to get religion and others it is to reject religion. Many seem to involve finding a path to a more spiritual (as distinct from religious) life. Some abandon their high-pressure lives in inductry or finance and take up new pursuits.

I haven't heard of anyone finding remission by taking up a high pressure life though.

So, how about joining in the thread and posting anything you have tried, or even seen evidence for, that alleviates or cures the little things that bug us all. AP would seem an ideal environment to be able to grow things needed, or remove pollutants from what we consume, or even to provide an hospitable place to go sit in the sun and meditate in the surrounds of gurgling water.

Here's another that can be very useful. I have used this for many years and it works.

For cuts, scrapes and wounds, even burns, clean the skin, take a bandaid or bandage and smear some antiseptic ointment on it, then sprinkle it with sugar. Cover the moist area and pat the sugar gently to get most of it to stick. Turn the bandage upside down to let the loose sugar drop off and then place it (sugar side down obviously) on the wound. Leave it at least a day the first time.

This heals the cut much faster, leaves MUCH less scarring (usually none) and draws the dead flesh out before it can affect the area. (you will see a black outling of the wound on the bandage when you take it off.

I had a glass shower screen drop into the bath as I was showering, slicing down the backs of my legs. It was the W/E and I could easily get to a hospital so I did the above. By the time I saw the Doctor on Monday, the scrapes were grwoing new skin and looked clean and the worst cut, where you could see the sheath of the ligament of the heel, was doing so well the Doc didn't even bother with stitches.
(he pointed out the white sheath to me and explained even a millimetre deeper and I would have limped for life, but the sides of the cut were regrowing and he just advised me to keep doing whatever it was I was doing)

You can use honey instead - honey has antiseptic properties - but I found it too messy to spread on the bandage.

As near as I can work out, it works by putting the building blocks for cells on site. Normally the cells get the sugars they burn from the blood, which means anything upstream or clamouring for support (e.g. muscles) gets priority. This method places easily obtainable ingredients right at where they are needed to repair things.

Colloidal Silver. Very easy to make. very cheap to make. Very effective, too. Kills over 750 bad bacteria, including viruses. Been making my own and using for years ...... and I'm not turning blue.

I've seen it mentioned a number of times over the years (colloidal silver) and noted it got the 'it ain't from Big Pharma so it must be evil' reaction. Whenever Today tonight or ACA go out of their way to condemn something it is worth taking a closer look.

How do you make your own? All I ever saw was the MLM campaigns by some rather suss people in PO Box addresses in the States.

Have you heard of Ormus? (or ORME)

What does banana skin taste like ?

I heard colloidal silver is starting to get used too often and may lead to immunities in bacteria, etc. in the same way as using antibiotics does.

Thinking about it I would be very worried about what the bananas have been sprayed with

Steaming would tend to be a very effective means of washing the skin. Think of boiling water condensing on the skin and washing back to be reboiled.

Banana skin doesn't seem to have much of a taste, or at least not one that can be tasted above (or below) the taste of the banana itself. More a texture thing.

@yavimaya - I've never seen a single reference I can recall to colloidal silver having an immunity effect on bacteria - what little I know of it suggests it isn't something to be immunised against because it it's more like a reagent that prevents oxygen uptake by bacteria and viruses.

If you have links showing otherwise I would like to have a read.

The only negative of which I have heard is that blue guy they like parade around on the MSM every time the subject comes up - and even he says he's been taking massive doses for years. They don't bother with petty details from the other side such as:

Interesting read, answer to Mantis, It tastes like chicken

Well the answer to why no one hears of these cures if indeed there is a cure: Medical companies are big business, they really don't want people to get too healthy. NO MONEY IN THAT. Thats the same reason we are driving gas guzzlers.

My doctor is a little different than most i.e. I had bad danderuf, I bought the best hair shampoos and conditioners.

My doctor said Pete, you buy shampoo to take the oils out of your hair right? Yes I said. THEN you buy the best conditioners money can buy to put some oils back in? Yes again. He said can you see the pattern the chemical companies sell both products, they are smiling.

His remedy to try was, just wash your hair with only warm water for one month. WHAT I can't do that.

Anyway I did try it, I have not had dander for the last 5-6 years. It took some getting used to but after a while my body stopped trying to replace it's natural oils so much. No flakey scalp, no itchy head.

So in effect it is not a cure, it is a lack of medicated shampoos and conditioners.

interesting huh

p.s. very old shampoos and conditioners for sale going cheep