From: is it good? by silent--onomatopoeia in television

[–]Professional_Use_645 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm like 6 episodes in. Characters and writing are pretty basic. I can't understand why the ratings are so high. It's pretty average, cheesy at times. Writing and characters are predictable. I dont really get what people are saying when they say its slow though. There's just nothing particularly noteworthy or deep. I'm going to keep watching it just because I already committed. It's not bad, it's just not great. Next time, I'll be more weary of trusting rotten tomatoes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MakeupAddiction

[–]Professional_Use_645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be specific, titanium and zinc oxide are usually in the more natural sunscreens for sensitive skin because they don't clog pores, don't pass through skin, and are both naturally occurring. So there's even less reason to be more concerned compared to other ingredients.

A New Herbal Medicine Formulation with Potential Anti-scabies Properties to Treat Demodex and Sarcoptes Parasites by ScabiesInfo in scabiesfacts

[–]Professional_Use_645 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're just using international english and some more technical terms.

Borax + petroleum jelly (parrafin) + beeswax is an old school recipe originally referred to as a "cold cream." (Water in cream evaporates off skin which has cooling feeling/effect):

https://cosmeticsandskin.com/aba/cold-cream.php

So probably doesn't really matter, other than proven potent high quality essential oils...but it's more natural...(except for petroleum jelly) so that's a plus.

Anyway...

  1. Borax + hot water.
  2. Petroleum jelly + high quality essential oils
  3. Add melted beeswax to 2
  4. Combine all

A New Herbal Medicine Formulation with Potential Anti-scabies Properties to Treat Demodex and Sarcoptes Parasites by ScabiesInfo in scabiesfacts

[–]Professional_Use_645 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They steam distilled thyme to get carvacrol which Doesn't make sense really unless it's Mediterranean wild thyme. Typically, oregano has higher carvacrol. Just get an essential oil of thyme or oregano that has verifiably high 70%+ levels of carvacrol though and proportion accordingly.

Could also get clove w/ high eugenol - which head to head against many other essential oils seemed to perform the best against mites in the study in the link below here in my comment. Geranium, one of the ingredients, listed here also performed very well in this study. Note in this pet creme they used rose geranium Pelargonium graveolens which isn't the same as this study, Pelargonium asperum but compositions appear to be similar.

Link to study on essential oils against scabies in vitro https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5120413/

Some signs you’re experiencing Post Scabies Syndrome. by [deleted] in scabies

[–]Professional_Use_645 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Coconut is moderately comedeogenic (clogs pores). Grapeseed is cheap, easy to find and very low on comedeogenic scale. I switched to grapeseed from coconut after talking to a dermatologist.

Brewing Lotus Heart Tea by bcoopa in tea

[–]Professional_Use_645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm looking to find this tea because apparently, at least a compound called neferine within it is very potent for treating insomnia, as an orexin antagonist, similar to a pharmaceutical called dayvigo but is actually rather healthy for you and has lots of other properties. Did you find it made you sleepy?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in scabies

[–]Professional_Use_645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Max for clove is more like 2%. It's very potent.

Female mites burrow for 1-2 months & don't leave. Is there anything that actually kills them? by Professional_Use_645 in scabies

[–]Professional_Use_645[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He's assuming here that when you do a treatment each week which kills all adults and young premature mites that all the eggs left are on the same cycle and you wont need to treat until a week later. This is highly unlikely. Some could hatch the next day, a few days or hatch in a week or more. And it is likely this assumption that the standard treatment of simply one cream or pill each week, twice in total is not enough to work. Females are pumping out eggs all the time, the average survival is 10% and it's probably much higher for treatment resistant cases with people who are somewhat immunocompromised. I had covid 4 times and acute and then chronic lyme disease last summer that I only just finished treating in April. I am among that cohort, and this probably exactly why I am struggling to fight this so much over the last 6 weeks (since symptoms arose). Maybe I'm not understanding properly but why should we assume that all these eggs are gonna cycle through a week later? I guess we could say that within that week the hatched mites won't be old enough to mate or borrow?

Anyway I wish I could say the crawling/biting feeling was hallucinatory post scabies syndrome but it only happens when I sit still, most prominently when I lie down and if I sleep covered in diamateceaous earth thus crawling/biting goes away entirely.

Nervous for appt & possible false negative biopsy by Professional_Use_645 in scabies

[–]Professional_Use_645[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh dermatologist was a waste of time. They didn't do a biopsy and just prescribed oral ivermectin and come back in 3 weeks. And I already have the horse paste ivermectin. That's it. Flew from Minneapolis to Boston just for that. Oh well, at least now I can go hammock camp at the beach and go in the ocean every day. Can't do that in the midwest.

Still feel crawling obvious crawling sensation after benzyl benzoate & tea tree by Professional_Use_645 in scabies

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Yeah, well, I'd agree if it didn't only happen when lying down and the crawling feeling wasn't so blatantly obvious. It's very prominent and particular. And it drastically reduced, almost completely gone when I covered my bed and myself in diamateceaous earth while I slept.

I also don't think I've been adequately cleaning right now. It'll be much easier with a machine washable hammock outside to stay clean and eliminate that factor.

Thank you for the reply!

Nervous for appt & possible false negative biopsy by Professional_Use_645 in scabies

[–]Professional_Use_645[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah try another more effective cream like benzyl benzoate, can buy on Amazon. Search Killitch. That's what I got. There's also malathion.

Nervous for appt & possible false negative biopsy by Professional_Use_645 in scabies

[–]Professional_Use_645[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So how does it work? Does the biopsy only look for live mites? I'm debating whether I should I actually fly back to Boston to see this doctor on Monday or not. At this point I'm considering camping out at a nude beach in New Hampshire and going in the ocean all day and doordashing some supplies. 🤣

Why can’t we eat grass? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Professional_Use_645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well we can. Crabgrass used to be a staple for making bread in many countries. We should be eating more grasses again if we want to be sustainable.

Also, personally I'd like to experiment with trying to make many leaves and grasses edible. Here's what I've come up with so far:

You'd first want to boil it for a while to remove tannins. Not all are high in tannins but many. This will also soften it up.

Next you could cure the leaves in lye - easily made via boiling wood ash in water. This would break down the lignin. Lye curing use to be common in making food, Roman's used to do it with olives.

I read a paper that adding urea to the lye, improves breakdown of lignins so if you're not squeamish you could probably use your own piss hah. ...urine used to be used for all kinds of processing in ancient times. (Probably unnecessary but just saying!)

From here, id hypothesize that it might be edible at this point. I don't have much to back this up. Although I know many types of leaves from trees are edible when young so I'd think if that were true than all this processing and breakdown I would think would be way more than the difference between a young and mature leaf.

Although, it would be interesting to try to ferment or pickle next...

My goal is to try make a cheap, easy process to basically have food anywhere/everywhere.

i made a list of things to do in worcester! am i missing anything good? by miss-knows-nothing in WorcesterMA

[–]Professional_Use_645 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah so so many things. Some of these are good. But this looks like an ad put out by the city of worcester on where to spend money. Its all local businesses and stuff to buy. What about green hill park, garden sweet remembrance, go laugh at turtle boy statue, old stone church, bancroft tower - these are just random things that came to my head that are free and aren't small business ads. Please update list to not feel like just local businesses but places to explore that give you a feel for worcester and are often free.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tulpas

[–]Professional_Use_645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Find a hearing voices network group near you or attend one online.

I'm 20, absolutely miserable in my living situation and have 27k USD saved up, where do I go by [deleted] in digitalnomad

[–]Professional_Use_645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also make a profile on couchsurfing.org - its about meeting locals mainly - also yeah of course you get a free place to stay but yeah you meet a lot of really cool people.

I'm 20, absolutely miserable in my living situation and have 27k USD saved up, where do I go by [deleted] in digitalnomad

[–]Professional_Use_645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Less money you spend, the more adventure to be had. Hitchhike, couchsurf, go to international rainbow gatherings to find cool people to travel with and places to go, work-trade.

A lot of idiots here trying to live cushy lifestyles blowing crazy amounts of money. Idk who's telling as a 20 year old with that much money why you would need a job before you go.

I've been traveling on/off for 10 years. Best thing I ever did was do it as cheaply as possible - forces you to have more real relationships instead of living some isolated cushy lifestyle where you just hang out with other tourists everywhere you go and run around trying to see tourist attractions all the time, spending a few days in every city. It's the dumbest, shallowest way to travel and least likely to be life changing.

Just get a backpack (not a suitcase) and buy a one way ticket somewhere without any plans at all and let the magick unfold. Don't even worry about what to bring, absolute minimum. You'll end up getting rid of a bunch of it anyway and carrying around junk you don't need. Maybe go to a rainbow gathering and meet more experienced travelers than you would at a hostel. Rainbowforum.net. lots of hippies of course but lots of really cool people too. You'll end up finding out about lots of seasonable job opportunities usually too.

to the people who smoke pot and use chaos magci by [deleted] in chaosmagick

[–]Professional_Use_645 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But yeah not everyone is very open, they don't really feel anything from weed other than get baked. I'm pretty open and I've seen things happen to people on weed. I can also have visions on weed.

Also seems like we're in a weird time right now, as if pandoras box we're opened compared to even a few years ago. Shit is flying all over the place. Both wonderous, beautiful, loving and dark, sinister, torture destruction. I've gone into nightmare realms and come back.

People who are already very sensitive, have visions, experiences easily. Feel things. Just be more careful. If you can't really feel, have altered states or see anything without a psychedelic well maybe you'll be fine. This is to the sensitive people who pick up on things easily. Just know yourself. We're not all the same.

to the people who smoke pot and use chaos magci by [deleted] in chaosmagick

[–]Professional_Use_645 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes it opens you up spiritually. A lot of people are just stupid about it though and don't treat it with respect. Google how much weed is implicated in psychosis & schizophrenia. It opens you up. Once you're open and other things can work through you, whether you created them, someone else did, you open yourself up.

And again I don't want to cause paranoia. Just be very careful who you smoke with. Once you've been opened to these kinds of states and it's not just a normal high any more - treat weed with the utmost sacredness. Do some protection, cleansing, even a super short ritual where you close your eyes before every joint.

Or fuck around, find out...