It's 6:30 AM and you feel a tightness in your chest. Antacids don't help. Your jaw is tightly set and your arm feels numb. Heart attack? Or is it an unreasonable response to a new zit? Either way, aspirin can help.
From heart attacks to zits, in the garden and the laundry room, aspirin has a ton of uses beyond relieving pain. Some of these I've tried, others I should try but haven't, and a few I hope to never try. You, the reader, are left to judge which is which.
From heart attacks to zits, in the garden and the laundry room, aspirin has a ton of uses beyond relieving pain. Some of these I've tried, others I should try but haven't, and a few I hope to never try. You, the reader, are left to judge which is which.
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If you're feeling a bit of a heart attack coming on, pop some aspirin and dial 911. (Or your local emergency number.)
The aspirin has an anti-clotting effect that inhibits platelets from doing their little plateletty jobs. You know, hanging out together in large groups, getting rowdy, and creating thromboses. This is perfect for those occasions when you're on the verge of death due to an unplanned cardiac episode.
According to the American Journal of Cardiology, chewing the aspirin has a more immediate effect than washing the pills down with a cool glass of water. So that's good to know. Especially if you're a man over 50 with less plaque on your teeth than in your arteries.
The aspirin has an anti-clotting effect that inhibits platelets from doing their little plateletty jobs. You know, hanging out together in large groups, getting rowdy, and creating thromboses. This is perfect for those occasions when you're on the verge of death due to an unplanned cardiac episode.
According to the American Journal of Cardiology, chewing the aspirin has a more immediate effect than washing the pills down with a cool glass of water. So that's good to know. Especially if you're a man over 50 with less plaque on your teeth than in your arteries.
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For those that use this method: It's a great treatment, but DON'T use it too often if you want to keep using it. Your skin can build up a tolerance to the aspirin, and make the treatment cease to be effective. This is good to help calm skin in emergencies, but not on a regular basis.
ALSO, Salicylic Acid (asprin) makes your skin more susceptible to sunburns. if you are going to use this treatment, use sunscreen as well.
For face masks like dollgrownup suggested, you can dissolve one or two (depending on the size) uncoated aspirin in some aloe or honey . Aloe moisturizes and soothes skin, where honey has natural antibacterial properties. Combined with the aspirin, which has anti-inflammatory properties (duh), and exfoliating properties, it makes a great mask to help sooth skin and fight acne. Just remember to use sunscreen when being out in the sun after using this treatment.
I have also read rumors about "aspirin burns" due to aspirin used on the skin. It is always a good idea to test whatever you are using on a small area of skin to make sure you do not react.
Aspirin is used in a lot of store bought face washes and whatnot, but there are certain risks involved in making your own mask that you might want to look up if you are in the least bit concerned.
I learned a bit and had some good laughs while reading your 'ibles.
Thanks!
just thought id share...:)
1) gastritis : irritation with possible bleeding in the stomach
2) make a disease-based or drug-induced 'anti-coagulant' state into a serious problem.
3) make worse a cerebral bleed type of stroke
4) cause gout (as it competes with uric acid for the kidney's method of ridding your body of uric acid (urate). So, the urate increases and in some individuals gout can onset.
I'm not aware of anything ingested that can't have any negative side-effects ... yes, including food and water!
The best cure for hangover is not going overboard with your drinking, if you must get trashed, drink quality liquor instead of the cheap $10 bottle of vodka... The reason you have hangovers is due to the way the liquor was distilled, lower quality liquor is usually only distilled once, so there's still methanol left in the final product after the distillation process, which is what causes hangovers... Higher quality liquors are distilled multiple times (usually 4-5 times, but some have been known to be distilled up to a dozen times) to further reduce the amount of methanol left after the distillation process, and therefore the higher quality liquor is less prone to cause hangovers...
If you must drink cheap booze, drinking lots of water throughout the night and eating a couple slices of bread before you go to bed helps avoid or reduce the intensity of your hangover in the morning as well
As a lifelong migraine sufferer (albeit, slightly different than a hangover...) I've use weed as a pain reliever, and as a preventative. It's been found to have so many medical benefits - right down to relief of irritable bowel syndrome...so whose really to say that it might not work for hangovers? Until unbiased medical studies are done, no one can attest to that.
That being said, If you have the 'spins' at all, weed will just make you spin more and eventually throw up.
At least this is what I've found to be true.
Smoke weed everyday.
-friendly dermatologist.
It is a great double whammy of anti-inflammatory and keratolytic action.
But even 0,1% of female engineers in the world amount to more than 50 !!!…
Otherwise we would have so little of the whole type that we won't have to bother with Tchernobyls, BPs, CO2, and our regular leisures would still be reading, and chopping wood for the winter instead of fixing our Macs or surfing on the web !…
OK I'm joking. Many engineers (male or female) are very efficient people and work to ease our life, not poison it.
Still as I know at least 20 women engineer in my own city I'm sure that even in the USA, which is not the most prone towards equality between genders, you'll find more than 50 engineer women who do not need to be as sexy and beautiful as the latest Hollywood star to get a job in their field and be goddam as efficient as men !!!…
This was my "equality between sexes" deed of the day :-)
Have a nice week end !…
Greetings !
negative points, though, if you forget that it's a battery you're peeing on and shock yourself.
and it was mainly a joke, but I feel like it's a point that could potentially be defended.
actually, it'll probably just remain unknown - nobody's going to do that.
Besides... wouldn't it be more likely that someone would pee in a container first, then pour it on? One would have to have a 60" inseam, or climb up over the engine...
This is such a dumb subthread....
LOL
I'm studying materials engineering (and a girl!)...and I just spent weeks on my courseworks...you're telling me I could've just washed my hair in aspirin and it would've been easy? I shall try that one day...
The only other use of aspirin that I know of is for spots / zits.
Crush an aspirin into you hand, and mix with a drop of eyedrops then apply =)
It works great- very cheap too!
Isaac said there's a small valve at the base of the skull that controls the balance of cerebral fluid between the spinal column and the brain pan. Depletion of B12 causes that valve to malfunction, causing pressure to build up in the skull, causing that jackhammer eyeball-squishing headache. I take 1000 micrograms of B12 before going out to party, or if I didn't plan well at least take it before bed. The water helps with dehydration, which is another side effect of alcohol. 1000 micrograms sounds like a lot but it's just one B12 pill.
If you've waited too long and your stomach is already sick then it's too late, you've already reached walking hangover stage and probably can't keep the B12 down anyway. Plan better next time.
I've yet to meet someone this didn't work for. If it fails you let me know, I'd be interested.
1000 micrograms sounds like a lot because you used micrograms. 1 milligram doesnt sound like very much at all. BUT OMG one million nanograms! Hah.
I'm curious... what do they cut the tablets with to make them human-finger-grasp-manageable?
Thanks.
Ingesting water after alcohol enhances elimination of alcoholic derivatives/metabolites.
Dissolved aspirin has been used to control mosquitoes in India, as it messes up their pheromone transmission/reception.
Taking aspirin for pain after childbirth increases the likelihood of physical child abuse. Taking anything for pain after childbirth generally increases the likelihood of physical child abuse by a few percentage points.
"Moreover, plant allomones like aspirin, cinnamon, quinidine, and dozens of others have similar beneficial cardiac effects that must be based, at least in part, upon their natural anti-herbivory semiochemical function. (Indeed, common antibiotics are naturally allomones, it is often how they were discovered in the first place.)" Nicholson B. 2011 Of Love textbook of medical science: exocrinology.
Robson and Kumar27 found that during labor, doses of more than 125 mg. of meperidine, (or Demerol) a powerful analgesic, delayed the onset of bonding. Hollenbeck and his coworkers75 found that among other factors observed during feeding in the first month, higher doses of all types of medication, including aspirin, received by mothers during the first four postpartum days were associated with mothers kissing their infants less often.
cancer is inherent in white mice!
;)
On the other hand, bossing a new mother around too much about whether she's really in pain after childbirth can not only raise the chances of child abuse, it can raise the chances of her knocking you silly while she's at it. ;P
Deaths from the drug 'Ecstasy' are mostly due to hyponatremia : the electrolyte dilution consequence of too much water in your blood system ..
but you should definately avoid paracetomol like the plague- people have died from mixing alcohol and paracetomol due to the increased liver toxoicity.
If you wake up feeling really yeurgh due to your overindulgence the night before I can recommend ( :-) snigger) dropping two fizzy soluble aspirin in a glass and chugging it back- you will instantly be sick thereby removing a large quantity of undigested food and any undigested alcohol from your stomach. This may make you feel a bit better- you will still have all the absorbed alcohol swilling around in your bloodstream tho and a massive hangover, NB if tyou are dumb enough to try this no responsibility is taken for any ensueing consequences - especially the cleaning bills or any medical problems which occur
I suppose if you're in the middle of the desert you may have to resort to such measures...
washing off your terminals with hotwater to clear corrsion is something which should be done regularly - cokes just gonna do it quicker (and you really DRINK that muck????!!)
It is legal to distill for your own use, here in New Zealand, and we are agents for Spirits Unlimited, and can source all of their products.
Cheers,
Dennis.
as far as i know, New Zealand is about the only developed country, where home-distilling is allowed.
We just got our spirit back from a professional distiller, where we brought or 2nd Whisky-mash. There is lots of paperwork involved(the distiller does it) and we have to pay alc. tax.
Around here, (Switzerland) you get in trouble by having a working still in possession. (Except maybe those small 1-3l copper toy-stills)
I brew beer for over 15 years(this is legal) and i could easily reconfigure some of the equipement for distilling ;-)
In Sweden(around 2500km from my place), when you buy large white sugar bags, everyone seems to know, what you use it for. Well, we used it to feed bees. (I was there on vacations, visiting a relative married there)
But then, you can also buy "turbo-yeast", flavourings and activated carbon in the same supermarket. For a beer above 3.5% alc, you need to go to a "Systembolaget"-store, which is the only place to buy "strong" beer, wine or spirits. There are long lines, before major holydays... and home-distilling is strictly forbidden.
But your comment is interesting to read.
(Ironic_on) Maybe you can boost the business, by offering free shipping to Saudi Arabia. (Ironic_off)
By the way, intersting product range on the website.
Try drinking at least one or two glasses of water for every drink you had at the bar and skip the aspirin. Seriously guys, this one works.
If you wake with a hangover, instead of gulping water, it should be sipped over time to rehydrate your little platelet buddies. This takes time, so drinking water while drinking is your overall, best bet.
I have taken aspirin before bed, when I was alert enough to do so. it really does help.
Aspirin doesn't do much for me, for some reason, but I suspect this is a YMMV situation.
I would just add that you do not need to use aspirin, but just any
Acetil-Salicil acid tablets, since they are all the same, you just pay 10x price for the Aspirin name
:D
Take a quart of water. Take two aspirin. consume both by mouth. wait a few minutes for the water and aspirin to start kicking in. now go get that quart of gatorade or other electrolyte sports drink. If you have babies in the house, that bottle of pedialyte works just as well. Drink that down. If it was a really epic binge, or you are on the larger size, more water is called for.
by the time you have finished that second quart, you should be feeling lots better. But you better go use the bathroom now.
hangover is two things. All the toxic breakdown products from the alcohol in your blood are circulating around. Your kidneys and sweat glands are working hard to get rid of them, but both of these need water to work with to flush them out. Add water to your body to give them this flushing water.
The toxic chemicals secreted by your sweat glands are why someone with a hangover usually has noticeably worse body odour. get that water into you, and shower all that nasty off of you about an hour later.
Anyway, nice unstructable!
Hope you understand me :-)
It can also be used to kill fungus growth in gardens as well.