Bitten? the magic penny?
so you all know how I always say things I have inklings about but can never give real proof about. Well I do usually try to remember to look into these things as I say i do in conversations. Tonight I had some extra time and was able to look into "the penny effect". As many of you may have heard before:
put a penny onto a hornet/spider bite, or bee sting to help healing. Put on the bite site right when you are bitten.
So I looked at a handful of articles and many saying "no way its a myth", but alot of people actually having proof of experience.
Well I did not have infinite time but this is what I came up with (disclaimer: science majors please correct me if I'm wrong):
Copper is germicidal, meaning it naturally disinfects and works against bacteria through the oligodynamic effect.
And zinc has also helps speeding up healing after injury. certain types of zinc also reduce inflammatory cytokines.
differing results? (courtesy of wiki):
after 2000 AD: 94% steel, 1.5% nickel, 4.5% copper plated zinc
1999 AD- past: ~ 98.4% zinc, 1.6% copper plating
so yeah that's what I got. so you might as well try it eh? there have been alot of positive experiences with it, and skeptics online seem to usually be those who have never tried it. I have also had a positive experience with this also, ask me about it some time. But of course you should always be careful to get medical attention if it seems necessary.
So I wish I could refer you to a single place to get these answers but i pretty much spent the last hour and a half trying to piece together info.
So take from this what you will.
Cool.
Tunage clips(or future tunage)from journal:
We were hurt,
I built up walls
didn't see the walls were caging us in
I can't seem to hold myself the way I want to for you
they said we'd fit like puzzle pieces, but there's always that awkward little bit
we'll always be growing, we'll always be younger, we'll always be learning, we'll always have hunger...
at least I hope so :)
p.s. some colors were just highlights in my mind, so just ignore them for explicit meaning within the context of its place. or you could just ignore in general if you want... i guess...
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2 comments:
it is hard to say with the penny thing.. the problem with alternative medicine is that positivity is so powerful that often times people's ailments improve simply because they think they are doing something to fix themselves. so in general, individual experiences are not really helpful.
i dunno I also read this other article about how the body uses copper to clean out the body and taking like bad stuff throughout the body and deposit it in the liver for processing... hmmm.. I dunno its seemed pretty legit so far, plus yeah my Dad had the same experience when he got bit by a spider, and he was like wtf? but it worked out like over night.
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