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Offline Grumpmeister

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« on: March 26, 2008, 06:19:20 PM »
Hang on, if I read this article correctly that means that I could ressurect any old folk remedy and take it to hollywood claiming its an all new all singing all dancing alternative treatment and these daft buggers will pay a fortune?  rubschin:

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Actress Demi Moore has confessed to indulging in an unusual alternative therapy - blood-sucking leeches.
The 45-year-old told US talk show host David Letterman she tried the treatment in Austria as part of a detox plan.

She said: "You watch it swell up on your blood... then when it's super drunk it just kind of rolls over like it is stumbling out of the bar."

Leeches have been used in medicine for centuries and are often used today in reconstructive surgery.

The anticoagulant secreted by the creatures fights blood clots and helps restore blood flow to inflamed body parts.

'Bite down'

But Moore said the leeches were allowed to bite her to release a "detox enzyme".

"It detoxifies your blood... generally you bleed for quite a bit and your health is optimised, and I'm feeling very detoxified right now!

"I did it in some woman's house lying on her bed. We did a little sampler first, which is in the belly button.

"It crawls in and you feel it bite down on you... Then you relax and work on your Lamaze breathing just to kind of relax."

She joked: "These aren't just swamp leeches though - we are talking about highly trained medical leeches."

The actress, who was previously married to Die Hard star Bruce Willis, says she is convinced the treatment worked and plans more.

"I only got four leeches and I felt a bit cheated," she added.

But Mr Andrew Wilmshurst, consultant plastic surgeon at Ninewells Hospital, near Dundee, said he was doubtful leeches would have a "detoxifying" effect on the body.

"Leeches are used as standard treatment in plastic surgery units around the UK, but only in two very specific areas," he said.

"Alternative therapies are not based on scientific fact... and it sounds like a load of mumbo jumbo to me."
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Re: Sucker.
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2008, 06:22:00 PM »
Mad as a March Hare  ::)


So yes ~ she'd be a good first call I'd think.
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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2008, 06:28:59 PM »
Hmmm so I need something that seems to be new and not heard of previously and is as bizzare as possible....

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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2008, 06:33:04 PM »
Black Treacle .... they use to make great use of that I am told and my mum always used to make us stand and inhale the fumes when they were putting tar on the roads ... to "clear our chests"
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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2008, 06:35:11 PM »
I'm trying to remember the one Hagman keeps mentioning in the Sharpe stories. Paraffin oil and brown paper or something along those lines.

Problem with the black treacle one is that LA has the Labrea Tar Pits. Cant really charge for something they can wander down there and inhale.
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« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2008, 06:36:48 PM »
The Black Treacle was to make them sh*t.

The Tar fumes to clear bronchial chests.

You'll be onto Vinegar and Brown Paper for hurt heads next.
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« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2008, 07:26:24 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on March 26, 2008, 06:36:48 PM
You'll be onto Vinegar and Brown Paper for hurt heads next.

Nah, something tells me that not even Americans are that gullible
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Re: Sucker.
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2008, 07:36:43 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on March 26, 2008, 06:33:04 PM
Black Treacle .... they use to make great use of that I am told and my mum always used to make us stand and inhale the fumes when they were putting tar on the roads ... to "clear our chests"

As a kid I literally spent half of my first 12 years in hospital with chronic asthma. One memory was a number of us being pushed from the hosital in wheelchairs to the nearby A6 to sit by the road while they resurfaced it in asphalt. I can't see H and S allowing that these days
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Re: Sucker.
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2008, 08:40:22 AM »
She joked: "These aren't just swamp leeches though - we are talking about highly trained medical leeches

Too much 'other' plastic surgery has addled her brain for sure  ::)
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« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2008, 12:11:04 PM »
Quote from: Landlady on March 27, 2008, 08:40:22 AM
She joked: "These aren't just swamp leeches though - we are talking about highly trained medical leeches

Too much 'other' plastic surgery has addled her brain for sure  ::)

Aaarrgh, thats just set of a Marks and Spenceresque spoof running through my mind.
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Re: Sucker.
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2008, 01:34:53 PM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on March 28, 2008, 12:11:04 PM
Quote from: Landlady on March 27, 2008, 08:40:22 AM
She joked: "These aren't just swamp leeches though - we are talking about highly trained medical leeches

Too much 'other' plastic surgery has addled her brain for sure  ::)

Aaarrgh, thats just set of a Marks and Spenceresque spoof running through my mind.
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Re: Sucker.
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2008, 03:01:18 PM »
"These aren't regular leeches, these are hand reared columbian leeches......"
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