Earthing have you tried it?

The OP said "I have been researching extensively all alternative treatments to help me and my specific health problem."

Just bear in mind that if a treatment could be shown to work, it wouldn't be 'alternative' anything... it would just be a part of medicine...

ouch, horrible anno- but I am pretty sure I won't catch THAT in the grass in my garden! I am barefoot now, and have been more or less all Summer when around home and garden- sooo good, and no aliens ;)

A nasty tropical bug called a jigger, which lays eggs in one's feet, had to be cut out of my toe once - luckily we got it before any eggs were laid, but it was horribly itchy!

Yikes, I think I'll keep my shoes on!

I love walking barefoot but we have to beware of ticks from the deer that come in, and on the local beach ,weaver fish.

No I haven't heard of or tried earthing but, like overthehill, I had a persistent cough which nothing got rid of. Finally, one doctor I saw said he thought it was asthma and gave me a steroid spray (brown case) to use twice a day and one to use if I got breathless (blue - that's the colour of the spray, not me). That was over a year ago and my cough disappeared almost immediately and I haven't needed the blue one at all. Maybe your doctor has prescribed this but, if not, could be worth a try. Mind you, if walking barefoot works for you sounds much more fun.

Good for you, overthehill, I am very open minded and I love walking barefoot, I never wear shoes in the house or garden though if it's wet, I do stick something on my feet to go outside.

I feel that it's good to get some air on my feet and I have no problems with arches or corns or cramp or any of those things that so many people seem to suffer from. My worst experience, so far, has been whilst hanging out the washing on the line one morning and having a frog jump on my bare foot, squelch and squeal!

I have used complimentary remedies for years , science does not have all the answers

Just a small warning that there are some really nasty things out there and the wearing of shoes was not just developed to stop sharp thorns sticking in our feet, but also in tropical places nasty bugs burrowing in. Leprosy for example was largely eradicated because people wore shoes.

What is wrong is people using pseudo-science to sell goods and procedures.

If they say "This makes you feel better and seems to make a difference to these problems, but we don't know how" - fair enough. If they say that it works by some arcane and scientific-sounding process that no-one with, say, genuine knowledge of electricity and the electrical impulses that go on in the body, can understand and confirm, then they are using confusing and misleading mumbo-jumbo. Their motto is "Blind 'em with science!"

It is like using an amethyst to ward off inebriation - the contemporary "science" for that was the similarity of the colour of the amethyst to the colour of wine.

I agree Printmiss. Perhaps at some point in the future science will be able to prove how and why some things are beneficial, but they don't yet have the capability to do so.

Thanks, oth.

@PRINTMISS - "It doesn't have to be scientific" - what does that mean? After all, there isn't a special category of "things that are scientific", although there may well be one of "things that hold up under scientific investigation".

Some feel better for injecting themselves with morphine (although not for very long) while others will get a buzz from hotting in a stolen car (ditto) - I don't think there's a good argument for saying 'just do it' without thinking about what 'it' is!

It is surely a case if it makes you feel better, then do it, the same with a great many things, it does not have to be scientific or scorned at for being different. I think if we stopped to think, we would find that some of us do things quite automatically because we feel better for doing them.

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Concrete that has no coating applied is untreated.

Enjoying nature is all it is. Bare feet are not required but if one likes walking around in bare feet that's fine.

What is untreated concrete?
What is treated concrete?

overthehill, I am with you here, and do the same. And I'm with you too Jingl- there will be no money spent on it, no gadgets or mumbo jumbo. But I do feel modern man suffers from losing touch with nature- and walking barefoot admiring all the lovely things around you, be they birds, flowers or, like today here, massive dragonflies- really does help re-connect. So is touching soil when gardening, or letting the sand run through your fingers on the beach- or even walk in the rain and enjoy it running down your face. As said, I do from time to time hug a tree if I come across a wonderful old and venerable one. Not sure what it does- but it feels so good. And it costs absolutely nothing... so?

Whenever I get to a beach- our friends and relatives tuck their trousers in their socks and walk in such a way to ensure no sand gets in. I take my shoes off the second I get there and run in dry or wet sand, in and out of the sea getting soaked - wonderful.

Years ago when I had a cough I was told by a friend who was a bit of an alternative -freak- follower that what I needed to do was make an affirmation every morning. She repeated a long piece which I was supposed to remember and chant every morning. Can't remember all of it (and never could) It began "I love,trust and approve of myself, in ever possible way."
Did it work? Well the cough cleared up but then coughs tend to.

The Skeptic's Dictionary says: "You will search in vain, on their (the Earthing Institute's) site and elsewhere in the work of real scientists, for evidence (a) that going barefoot charges your body with electrons, (b) that there is such a thing as "electron deficiency," or (c) that the body is restored to a "natural electrical state" by going barefoot."

skepdic.com/earthing.html

feetle's considered view: New Age Spheroids...

Haha! Cobblers then like you said, jings.

PS There is not a garden this side of Christendom that is completely free from spring-up-and-bite-you things.

Oh well....... So long as it works for you. just don't spend any money on it

Jinglebell thanks for the link very interesting.

I will not however, be making or buying an earthing device, just sticking to the walking on the grass and again only in my garden which is free from dog poo, thorns etc.

I know it sounds mumbo jumbo but it has made a huge difference. I doubt it is the placebo affect as I have tried loads of other vitamins and techniques off the web but they didn't do anything.

It would be absolutely fine, SO LONG AS you knew which was the earthing pin on the electric plug. And of course, we all know that. Don't we?

Just tried to read your link, jingl! I don't think I'll take on that task.