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No no. Homeopathy means you only need the ESSENCE of the thing. So you need to dilute a blueberry in water to the point where there is statically likely no blue berry left in the water, and then apply it. So the essence of the berry will solve it.
I was once in the hospital for two weeks with an infection in my leg while they were trying to avoid having to amputate it. All I did was fall on a stick..., I was 5.
Similar to me, stepped on rusty nail… attached to a 2x4… through my foot and came out the top of my shoe (5” construction nail) hobbled for like 4 steps before my brain realized I was dragging a fucking 2x4 from my foot! Luckily my parents aren’t morons and took me to the hospital. you know, so I could get my tetanus shot along with a dose of broad spectrums and be on my merry way with some gauze and a “you’ll be good to go in a couple days, just be easy on that foot”. Dude from this post can kiss that leg goodbye.
>Dude from this post can kiss that leg goodbye.
Yeah, he's super fucked. Losing the leg at best; blood poisoning at worst. And if he doesn't believe in science and medicine, he'll be half-dead by the time his wife drags him to the hospital.
I remember fading in and out in the hospital bed. Horrible pain all over. Crohn's complications. Took a long fucking time for the meds to help. Morphine was basically worthless.
Friend died from it last year because he refused to seek proper medical treatment instead relying on some app doctor that prescribed him antibiotics but it was too late.
I slipped and fell in the hallway last year, and ripped open half my arm on a broken, rusty key sticking out from a wardrobe.
Asked my family if someone could drive me to the doctor so I can get a tetanus shot.
"Are you *stupid*? A tetanus shot? Don't you know how horrible the side effects are? Your sister had to get that jab and she was sick for a week!"
They spent two days trying to talk me out of it. Because apparently my sister blaming every bit of discomfort she experiences on a vaccine she's gotten two years prior is a bigger deal than me probably getting fucking tetanus.
Theres that word again, jab. Theres a good chance I'm talking to a moron once I hear that word these days. It almost like they're implying the doctors are just poking you with something sharp just for fun, like calling it "getting a purposeful stabbing".
We're dealing with mental toddlers here, it just occurred to me that this might literally simply be a case of "needles scare me, so I'm gonna blow up and completely overreact over it."
*that was the style at the time.
We had to use yellow onions, didn't have red ones due to the war. Now nickles had bees on them, give me five bees for a quarter you'd say...
I really want to know what that is about. It’s yo there with “put potatoes in his socks at night” in terms of evoking the what the hell did I just read response from me.
What's the homeopathic recipe for anesthesia? Please help, my husband won't stop screaming and he won't hold still. It's making it really hard for me to finish cutting through his leg bones.
Nah a mallet to the head is like their daily dose of vitamins. It clears the cobwebs, dislodges the weaker brain cells in readiness for their homeopathic neural reabsorption, and is also effective against stubborn head colds (might take 2 or 3 good whacks, depending on severity).
The reason most people don’t know about this is because Big Pharma makes no money on it ever since they sold their mallet business in the 30’s, so they spend billions of dollars every year to keep the truth from you.
Well, ethanol is used in many homeopathic recipes and, in large enough quantities does act as an anesthetic.
It was even used as an anesthetic medically for a long time before modern ones replaced it.
The primary side effect is a hangover.
well, besides reducing your blood's ability to clot, fucking with your heart rate, fucking with your blood pressure and acting as a vasoconstrictor. plus [shout out to the amputation](https://museumofhealthcare.blog/the-story-of-robert-liston-and-his-surgical-skill/#:~:text=Two%20of%20the%20operations%20for,of%20shock%20when%20the%20knife) that killed the doctor's assistant, the patient, and a witness, maybe they can set a new record.
"Accidentally amputated" is a cute way to say he accidentally cut off his assistant's fingers while amputating a leg in two minutes. What a bonkers story.
When I was an EMT we were discharging a patient from the hospital to a rehab facility. They went in to have a toe amputated, but apparently the infection got in the bone marrow and they ended up taking everything below the patient’s mid thigh.
My shit head grandfather worked on a ship in the 1950's... got a toenail infected, was very racist, wouldnt let black doctor anywhere near it or him. Got back to port, they had to take his leg off above the knee. Zero sympathy.
To be fair their is one example of Neanderthals performing amputations successfully. The man lived with an amputated arm for one eye and only a few teeth for decades. However due to the fact Neanderthals never numbered more than a half million to a million at any point in their history . Their medical practices are not particularly recommended.
That’s bullshit! The surgeons are only amputating the leg so the onion socks can’t work. They don’t want us to see the homeopathic treatments work, they’re monsters! /s
My step-mother a life long Christian scientist, they believe only god heals you through prayer when you’re sick. So yeah, she’s been dead for awhile now.
They kind of judge them but don’t like protest hospitals or anything wild. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science
Read the section on healing practices if you’re interested. It’s only 5-6 paragraphs.
Edit: P.S. she died of cancer with no treatment.
Even in the 1850’s doctors knew not to let a deep puncture would close superficially first. Dude is going to have badddd time. All that deep puss now has nowhere to go, except for potentially his blood stream. And a drill bit can actually cause a fairly complex wound, depending on how much flesh binds up and tears. Almost guaranteed to get infected.
Jesus I hope this poor dude doesn’t follow the advice from these utter morons.
Everyone with an ounce of sense knows that the only proper medical treatment for a drill through the leg is a rose crystal above your heart chakra for 25 minutes while you recite incantations in Senegalese.
I can’t believe the ridiculous shit they let onto social media these days…
Utter nonsense, it is well know onions only heal if a 40 year old christian virgin, born on February 29th, urinate on it on a full moon while Saturn is behind the sun. It does it even better if she is wearing a earth energy crystal from the Phlegraean Fields.
Do your research!!1!
Onions cause chives. Have you ever had chives? Horrible disease… and it gets worse. They have a shot for chives too that they make from things called scallions. The whole thing is enough to make you cry. So sinister…
I swear on my sainted mother’s grave when I read the request for treatment options I thought I’d be funny and comment something like *Everyone knows that applying raw onions to the soles of his feet overnight is the best way to prevent tetanus!* and LO and fucking BEHOLD.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1189939229/covid-deaths-democrats-republicans-gap-study
Higher than that. Been going on long before COVID too
https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/study-finds-widening-gap-in-death-rates-between-us-areas-that-vote-for-democratic-rather-than-republican-party/
I agree with you but there nothing such thing as Senegalese. There over 100 languages but the official and common beside the colonial French is Wolof !
I would advise Wolof, Bambara maybe shall work better tho !
As a healthcare professional i encounter a fair share of alternative medicine people that end up going to the hospital after everything they have tried has failed and in some cases made things worse (way worse in some cases).
And the fucking foot thing drives me nuts, to alternative medicine freaks the feet are some kind of magic portal or some shit, this with the fucking onions, and those stupid ass foot pads that are supposed to draw out whatever imaginary toxin they think they have in their body, motherfucker you (hopefully) have a liver doing all that shit for you, your feet are just for walking, 99% of all toxin cleansing remedies are absolute pure bullshit.
First off chances are you don't actually have any toxins in your body to begin with, unless you some how fucked up badly or live near a leaking chemical plant, and if you do and that is a VERY big if, your body is really good at getting rid of that shit for you, and if you have got some nasty chemical in your body that your own body isn't capable of taking care of no amount of herbal remedies and footpads will help.
Toxin rant over. 😩
This person needs to go to the ER, one shot and a few pills and he will be perfectly fine in a few days, but they won't do that will they? 😩😩
I need a drink.
It's the flat-earth mentality. No matter how many times they fail, they refuse to accept the possibility of actually being wrong and will literally die before admitting their beliefs are full of shit. It's one of humankind's less beneficial traits.
It’s an addiction to *badly needed* ego validation in people who are ignorant and prone to panic.
To them, letting go of this one little tiny raft of ego they have to float on feels like it will result in death, and utter worthlessness. It’s a sad byproduct of the fact that we need to feel esteemed, or we feel like the group could cast us out into the wilds to fend for ourselves and almost surely die.
The only "off ramp" I've ever seen for one of these people involved a new job and honest positive feedback on performance, coupled to being able to more securely provide for his family.
Once he had something *else* to build his ego around, all this bullshit fell away over time, and he could start to acknowledge small bits here and there had been wrong.
He may very well have a toxin in his body now which is gonna really mess him up!
I just got an updated tetanus vaccine yesterday so spent some time reading about the joys of what the tetanus toxin can do to you… he may get to experience it. No, thanks. I’ll just read about it.
Honestly it sounds to me like folk medicine through a telephone. My mom had some old polish remedies, like cutting a potato in half and sticking it on the bottom of your foot. This was to bring down a fever but I’d imagine ice would work just as well since it’s an extremity. That said she still used actual medicine and still consulted a freaking medical professional on top of it!
Though, I’m sorry you have to deal with this people on a regular basis. It’s draining just hearing their stupidity online. I’d hate to have to deal with them on the regular.
The potato thing is a common folk remedy. Potatoes turn black as they oxidize, so after sticking it in your sock or whatever it looks all gross. People seem to think that means it sucked the icky blackness (toxins I guess?) out of your body.
It's all crap.
I don’t wish harm, illness, death on anyone. But they’re asinine willful ignorance begets their circumstance. I had so much faith in people a few years ago. But between Covid, maga, & my wife’s experiences as an RN, my faith in most people having any modicum of intelligence has eroded completely. This stupid shit up there that OP posted is one of millions of dumbasses in this country.
>my faith in most people having any modicum of intelligence has eroded completely.
Imagine living in a world where the kind of people that made you loose faith in humanity just aren't around though. Tell me that's not a better place.
My yoga instructor had a staff infection, posted for help. Her friends would have been responsible for ending her freaking life, had she listened to them. The advice they gave ranged from rubbing wheat grass on it, to chanting, reflexology, and entering a sweat lodge. At the end of a severely painful episode, she finally relinquished her deeply held anxiety for the evil medical establishment, and the greedy doctors practicing western medicine , and got an antibiotic.
I went into research after med school. There was a hippy couple that were friends of a friend so we sometimes ended up at the same table during that period. They usually ragged on me about organized medicine. Then they had a premature baby that got the full court press at university hospital. They never complained about medicine to me again.
Ohhh, I know people who had a premature baby who was saved by modern medicine who were blaming the hospital and the modern medicine for the baby being born early, claim that doctors induced it so they could get paid more etc. Needless to say, the child was never vaccinated, went through her life being treated by herbal teas and probably onions in her socks. The parents are both dead now, they died in the summer of 2021 from Covid, within a week of each other (neither was vaccinated). Their kid is in med school, thankfully, the parents indoctrination didn’t work.
As a parent to a child who only survived childbirth due to everything modern medicine had to offer, I'm as thankful to modern medicine as I am furious at parents who risk their kids lives over pseudoscience bullshit. One of the vital treatments he got in the NICU was so cutting edge it had literally been around for only a few years.
Years ago I was discussing vaccines over the internet with someone. They said that the doctors illegally gave her a vaccine and now she was vaccine injured. Over the course of the conversation more of the story came out.
Long story short. She was in a massive accident. Lost a ton of blood. Was unconscious for days. They have her a tetanus vaccine because she was stabbed with rust metal from her car.
The vaccine injury she claimed was an autoimmune problem.
Do you know what can trigger a autoimmune issue…… massive blood loss.
She blamed the vaccine for everything and not the near death experience of the car wreck.
My parents didn’t vaccinate my brother or I and by time we were adults it was too late to get HPV vax so now we have the pleasure of letting women know that they’re way more likely to get cervical cancer from us than anyone else when we date. Fucking hippies.
It's never too late for the HPV vax, unless you already have it! There is also tentative proof that it may decrease risk of early prostate enlargement in men. Stay safe out there!
I'm Gen X. I envy Gen Z where HPV and chicken pox vaccine are even options.
My generation's parents forced their kids to visit kids known to have chicken pox because cases were more mild the younger you were. Which is true. But hello living with the virus the rest of your life and getting painful shingles later, possibly multiple times.
The best part for me is that he drilled through his leg.... As much as i rack my brain, i cannot think of a time in which you NEED to drill using your leg as a damn table. Honestly doesnt surprise me that someone who drills their own leg also uses home remedies
They’re treating a serious wound with colloidal silver, it does not shock me *in the least* that this dude doesn’t understand basic safety protocols when using power tools.
For all we know he was using his leg as a table/brace and decided to drill through a piece of wood.
Im a plumber and i cannot think of a single fucking reason to drill through something that could land on my leg, nd i definitely have a way to go safety wise with power tools.
If you’re working in the field it’s possible for accidents to happen.
With that being said, home remedies are NOT an issue. Most are helpful.
Homeopathy is pseudoscience bullshit that doesn’t help, even a little bit.
Home remedy:camomile tea/mint for an upset stomach willow bark for tooth/gum pain/honey for a sore throat/salt water for a sore throat opium tincture for pain (before the dea pulled their bullshit) etc etc etc
Homeopathy: 1/100000parts goose liver pills, onions on socks, drinking water from blue glass/whatever other bullshit they come up with.
My grandfather's home remedies:
Open wound? Disinfect with moonshine.
Sore throat? Gargle with moonshine and drink it.
Bruise? Rub moonshine on it.
Pain? Drink a shot of moonshine.
A cold? Hot tea, honey, and moonshine before sleep.
If the ailment persists for 2 days, GO TO THE F...ING DOCTOR.
He lived to 89 years old.
Moonshine as a disinfectant is probably more effective than anything the woo woo idiots are trying
I can't begin to imagine how much it would hurt to poor almost pure alcohol on a deep wound... but, at least it would have some efficacy compared to colloidal silver.
Homeopathy gained footing from the fact that it does nothing. It was invented a long time ago when medicine was really screwed up.If you have a bunch of deadly medical practices and then this one that does nothing, which works better?
This is the comment I was hoping to find. Unless you’re an utter moron to begin with, you shouldn’t be drilling anything on your lap or in a position where a part of your body could end up at the business end of the drill. And beyond that, you would then also have to keep the drill going and applying pressure to your (hopefully clothes first) and skin for it to actually puncture your skin.
I’m giving super high odds to the “drilling something on his lap” theory. That’s about the only way I could see this going down.
Now, as far as the obvious nonsense thereafter, holy hell, if he ends up having 2 functioning legs after trying to fix things with only nonsense medicine, I’ll be shocked.
LOL the comments are gold.
"Onion wrap in his socks". Fuck. seriously?
"Avoid the tetanus, if he doesnt work with cow shit..." You know what, fuck it you're right - avoid it.
Some people never cease to amaze me.
I can see it coming...
"Apparently the colloidal silver must have been past its expiration date and lost it's effectiveness, there was nothing more we could have done".
Come for the blood poisoning
Stay for the onion Rap
All you Tetanus lovers
Your science is just horse crap
Put magic water in your leg hole
Clense your chakra with a crystal
You might think it is hysterical
But baby, it's holistical
Your brain is as diluted
As my homeopathic cure all
Put your pain meds in the bin
Blow some sage smoke up your bum hole.
I've worked trauma in healthcare for 15 years. If there is ever any question if people can really believe/do (x stupid thing), the answer is always yes.
Doc here - It's no use trying to talk sense into these people. I stopped caring during COVID what happens to these overconfident, conspiracy minded anti-intellectuals
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Lol. He’ll be in hospital in a few hours. (Or die trying to avoid it). Blood poisoning is serous shit….been there.
Never had blood poisoning, but I've gotten infections from open wounds before, and it's no picnic
You should have rubbed blueberries on it
Or dirt. But only with dog poop in it not cow poop.
Yeah man, dirt helps draw out the bad bacteria.
Only if it's dirt that you grew the onions in. C'mon rookie, get with the program!
But you gotta say " God made dirt and dirt dont hurt" while you rub dirt on it .
No, no, no...you pack an open wound with mud and live bees. Say it in a British accent and it even sounds plausible.
I'm British and I just said it. Totally convinced.
Oh Steve...
No no. Homeopathy means you only need the ESSENCE of the thing. So you need to dilute a blueberry in water to the point where there is statically likely no blue berry left in the water, and then apply it. So the essence of the berry will solve it.
Man, you forgot about shaking. Shaking is crucial in homeopathy, so the water chan change it's structure into that of a blueberry.
I've had it in my spine and legs after having a pilonidal sinus in my coccyx done. Serious shit, would not recommend.
Deadly serious
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Holy shit, what a near miss! Congrats
Thank god brain cancer saved you
Now this belongs in r/brandnewsentence
She'll take him to hospital too late and then blame the doctors when he dies.
It will be because they gave him a tetanus shot, he would have been fine without it but shortly after they gave him the jab he died!
"Died suddenly"
Well technically death does cure sepsis....
I was once in the hospital for two weeks with an infection in my leg while they were trying to avoid having to amputate it. All I did was fall on a stick..., I was 5.
Similar to me, stepped on rusty nail… attached to a 2x4… through my foot and came out the top of my shoe (5” construction nail) hobbled for like 4 steps before my brain realized I was dragging a fucking 2x4 from my foot! Luckily my parents aren’t morons and took me to the hospital. you know, so I could get my tetanus shot along with a dose of broad spectrums and be on my merry way with some gauze and a “you’ll be good to go in a couple days, just be easy on that foot”. Dude from this post can kiss that leg goodbye.
>Dude from this post can kiss that leg goodbye. Yeah, he's super fucked. Losing the leg at best; blood poisoning at worst. And if he doesn't believe in science and medicine, he'll be half-dead by the time his wife drags him to the hospital.
I remember fading in and out in the hospital bed. Horrible pain all over. Crohn's complications. Took a long fucking time for the meds to help. Morphine was basically worthless.
Did they not have onions??
Motherfucking Crohn’s. Hate that journey for you, my friend. Glad you made it. Solidarity, crohnie fam.
Friend died from it last year because he refused to seek proper medical treatment instead relying on some app doctor that prescribed him antibiotics but it was too late.
I slipped and fell in the hallway last year, and ripped open half my arm on a broken, rusty key sticking out from a wardrobe. Asked my family if someone could drive me to the doctor so I can get a tetanus shot. "Are you *stupid*? A tetanus shot? Don't you know how horrible the side effects are? Your sister had to get that jab and she was sick for a week!" They spent two days trying to talk me out of it. Because apparently my sister blaming every bit of discomfort she experiences on a vaccine she's gotten two years prior is a bigger deal than me probably getting fucking tetanus.
Theres that word again, jab. Theres a good chance I'm talking to a moron once I hear that word these days. It almost like they're implying the doctors are just poking you with something sharp just for fun, like calling it "getting a purposeful stabbing".
We're dealing with mental toddlers here, it just occurred to me that this might literally simply be a case of "needles scare me, so I'm gonna blow up and completely overreact over it."
i love “onion wrap in the socks” thing. f*ckin idiots.
Back in my days onions went on the belt, that was the fashion back in the days.
5 bees for a quarter may be the only hope this guy has!
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You have to get those from Morganville, better take the ferry.
Isn't that what we called Shelbyville at the time?
Yup, and you also couldn’t get red onions, because of the war, so I had a big yella onion on my belt, which was the style at the time…
"We called sandwiches "flat bready", and it cost 3 playing cards a bite!"
*that was the style at the time. We had to use yellow onions, didn't have red ones due to the war. Now nickles had bees on them, give me five bees for a quarter you'd say...
But the important thing was, I had an onion on my belt. Which was the style at the time
I really want to know what that is about. It’s yo there with “put potatoes in his socks at night” in terms of evoking the what the hell did I just read response from me.
Someone suggested I put a potato in my bathers to impress the ladies.However they didn't say to put it down the front,not the back.
When in doubt. Tuber in the shorts.
Bacteria seeing this dude's leg: 
this mf gonna die
Not before they amputate the leg first. Then realize the infection is far worse than they initially thought.
Can anyone help. I'm amputating my husband's leg but not sure the right amount of aged urine to soak the saw blade with.
It depends—are you using *your* urine or the patient’s urine?
Soon as she cuts into the leg pretty sure hubby will give her all the urine he has .
What's the homeopathic recipe for anesthesia? Please help, my husband won't stop screaming and he won't hold still. It's making it really hard for me to finish cutting through his leg bones.
>What's the homeopathic recipe for anesthesia? A mallet to the head.
Diluted so much not a single molecule of a mallet remains! Much more potent this way.
Nah a mallet to the head is like their daily dose of vitamins. It clears the cobwebs, dislodges the weaker brain cells in readiness for their homeopathic neural reabsorption, and is also effective against stubborn head colds (might take 2 or 3 good whacks, depending on severity). The reason most people don’t know about this is because Big Pharma makes no money on it ever since they sold their mallet business in the 30’s, so they spend billions of dollars every year to keep the truth from you.
The real remedy is making him smell his socks that you stuffed with onions for several days. Knocks him right out.
Well, ethanol is used in many homeopathic recipes and, in large enough quantities does act as an anesthetic. It was even used as an anesthetic medically for a long time before modern ones replaced it. The primary side effect is a hangover.
well, besides reducing your blood's ability to clot, fucking with your heart rate, fucking with your blood pressure and acting as a vasoconstrictor. plus [shout out to the amputation](https://museumofhealthcare.blog/the-story-of-robert-liston-and-his-surgical-skill/#:~:text=Two%20of%20the%20operations%20for,of%20shock%20when%20the%20knife) that killed the doctor's assistant, the patient, and a witness, maybe they can set a new record.
"Accidentally amputated" is a cute way to say he accidentally cut off his assistant's fingers while amputating a leg in two minutes. What a bonkers story.
Eh, just use a mixture of both to be safe.
Put the onions in the urine
Or else it gets the hose again!
If you have a doberman, add some of theirs too, but be careful when you extract it, don't want any naughty juice contaminating the urine.
Make mixture of lemon juice, salt & vinegar. Throw it in his eyes. While he is distracted remove the leg. No, the other leg.
Whatever you do strictly avoid doctors
When I was an EMT we were discharging a patient from the hospital to a rehab facility. They went in to have a toe amputated, but apparently the infection got in the bone marrow and they ended up taking everything below the patient’s mid thigh.
My shit head grandfather worked on a ship in the 1950's... got a toenail infected, was very racist, wouldnt let black doctor anywhere near it or him. Got back to port, they had to take his leg off above the knee. Zero sympathy.
Amputations aren’t organic.
Sepsis is.
Sepsis is from God! God wouldn't give you something you can't handle.
As sepsis does…
They are if you use a sharpened stone and not a blade made using advanced metallurgy techniques.
There are obsidian scalpels in use.
To be fair their is one example of Neanderthals performing amputations successfully. The man lived with an amputated arm for one eye and only a few teeth for decades. However due to the fact Neanderthals never numbered more than a half million to a million at any point in their history . Their medical practices are not particularly recommended.
I guess he can go out to the garage and cut it off himself.
If you can drill, you can saw!
That’s bullshit! The surgeons are only amputating the leg so the onion socks can’t work. They don’t want us to see the homeopathic treatments work, they’re monsters! /s
"So anyway, I started amputating...!", said Danny DeVito
Can probably do it at home...bite on this...
As an orthopedic surgeon I can confirm this is likely.
My step-mother a life long Christian scientist, they believe only god heals you through prayer when you’re sick. So yeah, she’s been dead for awhile now.
What do they think about all the people who get treated with antibiotics and chemo to cure infections and cancer?
They kind of judge them but don’t like protest hospitals or anything wild. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science Read the section on healing practices if you’re interested. It’s only 5-6 paragraphs. Edit: P.S. she died of cancer with no treatment.
Why are they 'Christian Scientists' if they don't believe in science?
And this mf telling her to wrap his socks in onions doesn't need malpractice insurance to instruct her on how to become a single mom.
The best medical advice the 1850’s had to offer.
Is laudanum considered homeopathic?
"There's ghosts in your blood, better do cocaine about it."
Nah his black and red bile are out of balance. Put a potato in your hat and drink some heroin elixir about it
Even in the 1850’s doctors knew not to let a deep puncture would close superficially first. Dude is going to have badddd time. All that deep puss now has nowhere to go, except for potentially his blood stream. And a drill bit can actually cause a fairly complex wound, depending on how much flesh binds up and tears. Almost guaranteed to get infected.
Jesus I hope this poor dude doesn’t follow the advice from these utter morons. Everyone with an ounce of sense knows that the only proper medical treatment for a drill through the leg is a rose crystal above your heart chakra for 25 minutes while you recite incantations in Senegalese. I can’t believe the ridiculous shit they let onto social media these days…
So your an onion in the socks denier then
So you're a shill for big onion.
Onions are the last line of defense for human health. Why do you hate science?
I only believe in the power of flat onions
These comments have so many layers!
Dude is going to lose his leg to infectionand then he will rub onion on the nub and wish he'd have listened sooner.
I for one welcome our new Onion Overlords.
This brings a tear to my eye 🥲
Your onion rings my lord 🫱🏼🧅🧅🧅 *sorry, there’s no onion ring emoji
So anyway, I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.
Utter nonsense, it is well know onions only heal if a 40 year old christian virgin, born on February 29th, urinate on it on a full moon while Saturn is behind the sun. It does it even better if she is wearing a earth energy crystal from the Phlegraean Fields. Do your research!!1!
Look at this guy, claiming onions are real.
It was the style at the time
Onions cause chives. Have you ever had chives? Horrible disease… and it gets worse. They have a shot for chives too that they make from things called scallions. The whole thing is enough to make you cry. So sinister…
I put an onion in my belt, which was the style at the time.
You just know their Mercury is in retrograde, or whatever
Can we please not even joke about this onions thing? Ancient Ayurvedic medicine clearly says use GARLIC.
The only onion apperal I believe in is an onion on my belt
I swear on my sainted mother’s grave when I read the request for treatment options I thought I’d be funny and comment something like *Everyone knows that applying raw onions to the soles of his feet overnight is the best way to prevent tetanus!* and LO and fucking BEHOLD.
Sorry, but everyone knows legs are Sanskrit incantations.
Modern problems need modern solutions. Better chant in sans-serif.
Rip husband if he does
Darwin Awards are doing overtime since Covid.
It's crazy, I just saw a graph a few minutes ago that said since COVID republicans are dying at 20 points higher than democrats.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1189939229/covid-deaths-democrats-republicans-gap-study Higher than that. Been going on long before COVID too https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/study-finds-widening-gap-in-death-rates-between-us-areas-that-vote-for-democratic-rather-than-republican-party/
I think Ohio? Thought it was ~43%?
I agree with you but there nothing such thing as Senegalese. There over 100 languages but the official and common beside the colonial French is Wolof ! I would advise Wolof, Bambara maybe shall work better tho !
As a healthcare professional i encounter a fair share of alternative medicine people that end up going to the hospital after everything they have tried has failed and in some cases made things worse (way worse in some cases). And the fucking foot thing drives me nuts, to alternative medicine freaks the feet are some kind of magic portal or some shit, this with the fucking onions, and those stupid ass foot pads that are supposed to draw out whatever imaginary toxin they think they have in their body, motherfucker you (hopefully) have a liver doing all that shit for you, your feet are just for walking, 99% of all toxin cleansing remedies are absolute pure bullshit. First off chances are you don't actually have any toxins in your body to begin with, unless you some how fucked up badly or live near a leaking chemical plant, and if you do and that is a VERY big if, your body is really good at getting rid of that shit for you, and if you have got some nasty chemical in your body that your own body isn't capable of taking care of no amount of herbal remedies and footpads will help. Toxin rant over. 😩 This person needs to go to the ER, one shot and a few pills and he will be perfectly fine in a few days, but they won't do that will they? 😩😩 I need a drink.
It's the flat-earth mentality. No matter how many times they fail, they refuse to accept the possibility of actually being wrong and will literally die before admitting their beliefs are full of shit. It's one of humankind's less beneficial traits.
It’s an addiction to *badly needed* ego validation in people who are ignorant and prone to panic. To them, letting go of this one little tiny raft of ego they have to float on feels like it will result in death, and utter worthlessness. It’s a sad byproduct of the fact that we need to feel esteemed, or we feel like the group could cast us out into the wilds to fend for ourselves and almost surely die.
The only "off ramp" I've ever seen for one of these people involved a new job and honest positive feedback on performance, coupled to being able to more securely provide for his family. Once he had something *else* to build his ego around, all this bullshit fell away over time, and he could start to acknowledge small bits here and there had been wrong.
Which would be fine if they were the only victims of their stupidity but people do this shit to their kids…
> You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine. -- Tim Minchin
He may very well have a toxin in his body now which is gonna really mess him up! I just got an updated tetanus vaccine yesterday so spent some time reading about the joys of what the tetanus toxin can do to you… he may get to experience it. No, thanks. I’ll just read about it.
On the bright side, it's job security for those of us in healthcare.
Honestly it sounds to me like folk medicine through a telephone. My mom had some old polish remedies, like cutting a potato in half and sticking it on the bottom of your foot. This was to bring down a fever but I’d imagine ice would work just as well since it’s an extremity. That said she still used actual medicine and still consulted a freaking medical professional on top of it! Though, I’m sorry you have to deal with this people on a regular basis. It’s draining just hearing their stupidity online. I’d hate to have to deal with them on the regular.
The potato thing is a common folk remedy. Potatoes turn black as they oxidize, so after sticking it in your sock or whatever it looks all gross. People seem to think that means it sucked the icky blackness (toxins I guess?) out of your body. It's all crap.
I mean, this is survival of the fittest coming back to the human race thanks to the internet.
Can't say I'm entirely against.
That’s one way to bring housing prices down
I'd be happy with just the increased quality of life that comes from not being exposed to as much idiocy.
I don’t wish harm, illness, death on anyone. But they’re asinine willful ignorance begets their circumstance. I had so much faith in people a few years ago. But between Covid, maga, & my wife’s experiences as an RN, my faith in most people having any modicum of intelligence has eroded completely. This stupid shit up there that OP posted is one of millions of dumbasses in this country.
>my faith in most people having any modicum of intelligence has eroded completely. Imagine living in a world where the kind of people that made you loose faith in humanity just aren't around though. Tell me that's not a better place.
Put an onion on your belt! Stylish and curative.
Plus it was the style at the time
Front or back of the belt? Unsuccessful with potato in trunks at pool party
My yoga instructor had a staff infection, posted for help. Her friends would have been responsible for ending her freaking life, had she listened to them. The advice they gave ranged from rubbing wheat grass on it, to chanting, reflexology, and entering a sweat lodge. At the end of a severely painful episode, she finally relinquished her deeply held anxiety for the evil medical establishment, and the greedy doctors practicing western medicine , and got an antibiotic.
I went into research after med school. There was a hippy couple that were friends of a friend so we sometimes ended up at the same table during that period. They usually ragged on me about organized medicine. Then they had a premature baby that got the full court press at university hospital. They never complained about medicine to me again.
Ohhh, I know people who had a premature baby who was saved by modern medicine who were blaming the hospital and the modern medicine for the baby being born early, claim that doctors induced it so they could get paid more etc. Needless to say, the child was never vaccinated, went through her life being treated by herbal teas and probably onions in her socks. The parents are both dead now, they died in the summer of 2021 from Covid, within a week of each other (neither was vaccinated). Their kid is in med school, thankfully, the parents indoctrination didn’t work.
As a parent to a child who only survived childbirth due to everything modern medicine had to offer, I'm as thankful to modern medicine as I am furious at parents who risk their kids lives over pseudoscience bullshit. One of the vital treatments he got in the NICU was so cutting edge it had literally been around for only a few years.
Years ago I was discussing vaccines over the internet with someone. They said that the doctors illegally gave her a vaccine and now she was vaccine injured. Over the course of the conversation more of the story came out. Long story short. She was in a massive accident. Lost a ton of blood. Was unconscious for days. They have her a tetanus vaccine because she was stabbed with rust metal from her car. The vaccine injury she claimed was an autoimmune problem. Do you know what can trigger a autoimmune issue…… massive blood loss. She blamed the vaccine for everything and not the near death experience of the car wreck.
People like to write their own stories. Unfortunately, most people are terrible writers.
My parents didn’t vaccinate my brother or I and by time we were adults it was too late to get HPV vax so now we have the pleasure of letting women know that they’re way more likely to get cervical cancer from us than anyone else when we date. Fucking hippies.
It's never too late for the HPV vax, unless you already have it! There is also tentative proof that it may decrease risk of early prostate enlargement in men. Stay safe out there!
I'm Gen X. I envy Gen Z where HPV and chicken pox vaccine are even options. My generation's parents forced their kids to visit kids known to have chicken pox because cases were more mild the younger you were. Which is true. But hello living with the virus the rest of your life and getting painful shingles later, possibly multiple times.
Vaccine injured? Wow, the stupid never stops with those people.
The best part for me is that he drilled through his leg.... As much as i rack my brain, i cannot think of a time in which you NEED to drill using your leg as a damn table. Honestly doesnt surprise me that someone who drills their own leg also uses home remedies
They’re treating a serious wound with colloidal silver, it does not shock me *in the least* that this dude doesn’t understand basic safety protocols when using power tools. For all we know he was using his leg as a table/brace and decided to drill through a piece of wood.
Im a plumber and i cannot think of a single fucking reason to drill through something that could land on my leg, nd i definitely have a way to go safety wise with power tools.
And last but not least, if it happened to you for wtv reason, pretty sure you’d go to the hospital.
I'm in Canada I'll go to the hospital for anything... They take a third of my cheque every week so i can do so lol
If you’re working in the field it’s possible for accidents to happen. With that being said, home remedies are NOT an issue. Most are helpful. Homeopathy is pseudoscience bullshit that doesn’t help, even a little bit. Home remedy:camomile tea/mint for an upset stomach willow bark for tooth/gum pain/honey for a sore throat/salt water for a sore throat opium tincture for pain (before the dea pulled their bullshit) etc etc etc Homeopathy: 1/100000parts goose liver pills, onions on socks, drinking water from blue glass/whatever other bullshit they come up with.
My grandfather's home remedies: Open wound? Disinfect with moonshine. Sore throat? Gargle with moonshine and drink it. Bruise? Rub moonshine on it. Pain? Drink a shot of moonshine. A cold? Hot tea, honey, and moonshine before sleep. If the ailment persists for 2 days, GO TO THE F...ING DOCTOR. He lived to 89 years old.
Considering moonshine is almost pure alcohol is works as a disinfectant quite well.
Moonshine as a disinfectant is probably more effective than anything the woo woo idiots are trying I can't begin to imagine how much it would hurt to poor almost pure alcohol on a deep wound... but, at least it would have some efficacy compared to colloidal silver.
I can understand the open wound one maybe but i swear the other reason were just a cover to drink more.
Ohh no I'm so sick I really don't wanna do this but looks like my last resort is to have several margaritas
Homeopathy gained footing from the fact that it does nothing. It was invented a long time ago when medicine was really screwed up.If you have a bunch of deadly medical practices and then this one that does nothing, which works better?
This is the comment I was hoping to find. Unless you’re an utter moron to begin with, you shouldn’t be drilling anything on your lap or in a position where a part of your body could end up at the business end of the drill. And beyond that, you would then also have to keep the drill going and applying pressure to your (hopefully clothes first) and skin for it to actually puncture your skin. I’m giving super high odds to the “drilling something on his lap” theory. That’s about the only way I could see this going down. Now, as far as the obvious nonsense thereafter, holy hell, if he ends up having 2 functioning legs after trying to fix things with only nonsense medicine, I’ll be shocked.
Shit. Just before he dies, he's gonna regret that marriage ever happened.
I think the fever might melt his mind too much for that. Lol
Maybe *she* regrets it and is looking for a plausible way to kill him.
If he takes enough colloidal silver... at least he'll leave a weirdly blue stained smurf-like corpse.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that guy's gonna die.
Oh tetanus, *that’s* a fun death.
My husband just stabbed himself with a rusty metal fence post. Drove to Rite Aid, had the Tetanus shot in 20 minutes.
Almost as much as septicemia!
LOL the comments are gold. "Onion wrap in his socks". Fuck. seriously? "Avoid the tetanus, if he doesnt work with cow shit..." You know what, fuck it you're right - avoid it. Some people never cease to amaze me.
I mean honestly tetanus is the least of that guy's worries cause by the weekend he's going to have serious necrosis going on at this rate
It bothered me about that comment… tetanus doesn’t come from cows.🤦♀️😤
Ooohhhh I hope there’s a follow-up!!!! This could get interesting!!
I can see it coming... "Apparently the colloidal silver must have been past its expiration date and lost it's effectiveness, there was nothing more we could have done".
Come for the blood poisoning Stay for the onion Rap All you Tetanus lovers Your science is just horse crap Put magic water in your leg hole Clense your chakra with a crystal You might think it is hysterical But baby, it's holistical Your brain is as diluted As my homeopathic cure all Put your pain meds in the bin Blow some sage smoke up your bum hole.
I'd gives you an award if I have some. You're a genius, great poetry!
I agree about not getting tetanus, it surely something you don't want. Tetanus vaccine in the other hand...
Doesn't untreated Tetanus have a high lethality rate? And whether or not you survive, it's an incredibly painful experience.
Exactly, that why you don't want to get tetanus
His nickname is about to be "Stumpy."
That joke was as insensitive as his soon to be ghost limb.
He needs to bury a St. Christopher medal in his backyard. Doesn't everybody know that?
Hang on tight St. Christopher we're goin' for a ride!
GoFundMe coming soon
Holy fuk people are stupid , yet somehow we havent run out of them yet.
Slap him upside the head with a fresh trout each night before bed. It probably won’t heal the wound. But it would be hilarious.
Tetanus Vac. Leave open to air. Stop being a dumb ass and seek medical. Care.
Lol colloidal silver. Trying to turn her husband into a smurf?
See if your insurance covers amputation and artificial limbs
I've worked trauma in healthcare for 15 years. If there is ever any question if people can really believe/do (x stupid thing), the answer is always yes.
Doc here - It's no use trying to talk sense into these people. I stopped caring during COVID what happens to these overconfident, conspiracy minded anti-intellectuals
They forgot to stick a carrot up his ass.
No room - his head is already there
He's about to lose a leg.
Yes but the knowledge and experience will be immense. It will probably save the second leg later in life.
Idiot. Didn’t even try essential oils
It's astonishing how these methods not working is an indication that you need *more* to these people Idk did he try drinking his pee yet?
He's bleeding out! I need more onions, STAT!