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peter07
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Location: Gwangmyeong
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 Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:15 pm Post subject: Losing weight through hanyak (Oriental medicine) |
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Anyone try this? I've known a guy who dropped 30 pounds using hanyak and diet.
I've asked a few haneuisa (doctors of Oriental medicine) and they said they don't offer that because it's not ethical. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| He lost the 30lbs from dieting. Hanyak isn't going to help you lose weight. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| optik404 wrote: |
| He lost the 30lbs from dieting. Hanyak isn't going to help you lose weight. |
It's hypothetically possible that it could act as an appetite suppressant, which could help with the dieting. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| I don't know what hanyak is comprised of, but don't they give it to sick people? I would think that last thing a sick person needs is an appetite suppressant. Maybe there are different formulas. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| optik404 wrote: |
| I don't know what hanyak is comprised of, but don't they give it to sick people? I would think that last thing a sick person needs is an appetite suppressant. Maybe there are different formulas. |
There are many kinds of medicine within the scope of the tradition in question, and not all are just for sickness. When my wife was trying to get pregnant she took some for it, and when my kids were still quite young it was recommended that they take a certain variety to help with their growth or some such (I refused out of hand, so I'm not sure exactly what the purported benefits were). I strongly suspect a lot of what these people do is selling snake oil, so if they refused to make him whatever diet medicine this was (maybe it had 마황 in it, which I read was once used in a now-banned appetite suppressant in the West), there must have been some real risks. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:40 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
| optik404 wrote: |
| He lost the 30lbs from dieting. Hanyak isn't going to help you lose weight. |
It's hypothetically possible that it could act as an appetite suppressant, which could help with the dieting. |
Made me wan to vomit when I tried it. 'Suppose that'd work for appetite suppressant. lol |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| Fox wrote: |
| optik404 wrote: |
| He lost the 30lbs from dieting. Hanyak isn't going to help you lose weight. |
It's hypothetically possible that it could act as an appetite suppressant, which could help with the dieting. |
Made me wan to vomit when I tried it. 'Suppose that'd work for appetite suppressant. lol |
Seriously. Sometimes it almost seems like a prank. "Let's mix the most bitter herbs we can find with some blood from a deer's antlers and a few known carcinogens and see if we can get people to drink it." |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
| Captain Corea wrote: |
| Fox wrote: |
| optik404 wrote: |
| He lost the 30lbs from dieting. Hanyak isn't going to help you lose weight. |
It's hypothetically possible that it could act as an appetite suppressant, which could help with the dieting. |
Made me wan to vomit when I tried it. 'Suppose that'd work for appetite suppressant. lol |
Seriously. Sometimes it almost seems like a prank. "Let's mix the most bitter herbs we can find with some blood from a deer's antlers and a few known carcinogens and see if we can get people to drink it." |
Don't forget to make it expensive. That seems to help this little prank along. |
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Drew345
Joined: 24 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| And pick some random ingredient (different for each person?) that you are not supposed to take for a month with the drink. That will make it seem more legitimate. |
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Rutherford
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| Some Hanyak uses mahuang, also known as ephedra. You might recognize the name from diet pills back home. It's a stimulant and appetite suppressant. If you can get it in a cheap, convenient form at the hanyaksa, give it a try. You might be able to just buy the herb cheaper. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| Drew345 wrote: |
| And pick some random ingredient (different for each person?) that you are not supposed to take for a month with the drink. That will make it seem more legitimate. |
Right, right. When my mother in law was last taking some, it was, "I can't eat chicken, because of the medicine." I'm sure the Yin of the chicken would have canceled out the Yang of the deer blood or something. And like Cosmic Hum mentioned, it was not cheap, which is probably why she believed in it. Somehow, though, the stuff failed to make her feel sufficiently better that she stopped going to the doctors every day for a cold shot, whatever the Hell that is. Probably vitamin water with a bit of pain killer or something. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| I tried hanyak to cure my asthma problem. It works. I don't recommend it for the sole purpose of losing weight because oriental medicine primarily deals with reinforcing the functions of the organs in your torso. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:04 am Post subject: |
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| "Eat less, move around more" .... Sam Kinison |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Eat raw raccoon nose. Get salmonella. 2 weeks of no solids. Lose 20 lbs. Traditional Medicine- 100% effective. |
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Rutherford wrote: |
| Some Hanyak uses mahuang, also known as ephedra. You might recognize the name from diet pills back home. It's a stimulant and appetite suppressant. If you can get it in a cheap, convenient form at the hanyaksa, give it a try. You might be able to just buy the herb cheaper. |
If I remember correctly ephedra has been banned by the FDA (US) due to side effects (including fatal ones.)
There were a number of pro football players who died after taking products containing ephdra. |
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