homeypizzle

Been a while since I've written here, huh?

Though at first I had to get out my giggles at the bad-joke-potential brand name of the homeopathic supplement my sweet girlfriend had gotten me ("Wood"), I've been having a lot of fun researching the ingredients. The first few, such as Belladonna, are interesting plants in that if consumed in too large a quantity, they are toxic in downright horrific ways, and yet if consumed in a proper, miniscule quantity, they act as antidotes or medecines. In another sense, I learned about everything from medieval cosmetics to ancient abortion methods. And then there are some minerals (oddly used to make soaps and such) which I eventually figured out just have poeticized names in the homeopathic world, which I guess has a psychological school attached to it? Interesting!

What's really interesting to me, though, is the idea of taking the subtle essences of these things, and then - with some drops of what basically amounts to water beneath the tongue - affecting one's subtle body with it (ie, the bioenergetic, cakra level, closer to the soul, as it were). There's something almost poetic in the delicacy of it, and only compounded by the idea that, say, a flu vaccine is essentially a homeopathic remedy in that essence-sense. It's fun to look at modern medicine on a subtle (in the yogic sense) level.

--sidenote: the top ingredient in the "Fire" supplement is basically "honeybee"
---and another ingredient is essence of venomous pit viper?!

Does this seem a random association to anyone else? Well, I guess one could make a Silk Road reference.

"An Australian abalone diver miraculously escaped a Great White Shark attack in January after the shark half-swallowed him head first.
The diver's lead weight vest saved his life by stopping the shark's teeth from biting him in half and the shark then released the diver."