epilepsy

[Guest guest]

I am motivated to write immediately after subscribing, because after I read

the list's files, I was gladly surprised to see that you believe that

psychiatry and psychology are pseudo-sciences. I have epilepsy, was a

chemistry pre-med student (I am from Chile, living in Venezuela since the

september 11, 1973 coup, and ran out of $$), and today I help people with

epilepsy, and am often forced to teach doctors that psychiatry is just cheap

neurology, and that psychology was invented by someone with the same kind of

epielpsy I have (temporal lobe). This made him very good as seeing

consequences, and results, very empathic, but his explanations are not

necessarily scientifically correct.

 

Well, I am here because i am researching ancient medicine, especially for

neurological troubles, and I am an activist for the legalization of all

illegal drugs so they can be researched completely. here where I live, I

work with the native americans who live between here and Colombia (I am in

maracaibo, venezuela, near the border), and who have used marihuana as

medicine for centuries. For example, they have taught me to make a mixture

of oil and marihuana, which is applied to the joints that are hurting from

arthritis, and which is an excellent medicine. As a teenager, I learned to

control my seizures by smoking pot. I hate smoking, however, and Marion (the

pharmaceurical created from THC, pot's active ingredient) has not been very

effective for those who have tried it. Why? Because things work better in

the state God created them in!!

 

I also have a very large warehouse, where I'm setting up a community center

and a place for street children (I am a tutor of street kids, and a social

entrepreneur). I want to grow herbs there (NOT pot!), to teach these kids we

are rescuing how to work. I had been thinking of doping hydroponics for a

while, but hadn't decided what to grow. I believe nothing would be as

perfect as medicinal herbs! We might even be able to sell some and raise

more funds for our projects? I was a chemistry lab teacher in a US college

by age 17: I can handle chemicals. And my grandmother was a dedicated

gardener in Chile: from her I learned how to handle plants.

 

So you might say I am a beginner researcher in natural medicine.

 

Vanessa Di Domenico

Proyectos La Esperanza

Venezuela