Do Psi bands work?(Acupressure)

R.A.F. said:
Ah, yes...the peer review commonly known as facebook is where I go to get all my questions scientifically evaluated..


Sheesh...
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When did I say I went there for a question? I first heard about them there and decided to look into it.

Ah, yes...the peer review commonly known as randi.org is where I go to get all my questions scientifically evaluated... but usually only get a couple serious responses followed by a bunch of jackasses who don't even read the OP.
 
Loss Leader said:
If the bands are sufficiently tight, it could overwhelm the brain and push out other stimuli. But, I think this only works in the short term. Eventually, your brain compensates.
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Kinda like how shooting a finger off will relieve the pain of a stubbed toe.
 
When I was younger and more gullible, I had been for a visit to a psychiatrist way north. I think it was about 2.5-3 hours drive from home, with terrible, snaking roads. I used to suffer from travel sickness back then.

On the way home, we stopped by the pharmacy to get some anti-nausea meds. An overenthusiastic pharmacist made me buy the bands, and guaranteed that I would absolutely not need any medications - these bands were guaranteed to work.

Well, you can figure out the rest of the story.
 
@ one time my coworkers used to constantly ask to borrow Tylenol. I experimented by saving all the placebos from my birth control pills and putting them in a little medicine bottle. Next time I was asked for Tylenol I said, "Shhh...I've got something *much* better! It's really really strong though, and they tend to give you a little buzz, so I'm only going to give you half. Don't tell anyone!"

Pretty soon I had a handful of people who were cured of their pain by my magic pills.
 
Sledge said:
This is an area I'm ignorant in, but what? Are these Catholic birth control pills?
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The men who invented the contraceptive pill, strangely, got the idea that women actually like having their period, so they designed it with a 7 day break per month. Some types of contraceptive just give you the 3 weeks of pills per month, others give you 7 dummy pills too, so you don't have to remember whether you need to take a pill every day. Many women don't bother having the gap and use the active pill continuously.
 
Looks like a glorified bracelet to me. Don't see how it could do anything a standard bracelet could not. Total scam.
 
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Professor Yaffle said:
The men who invented the contraceptive pill, strangely, got the idea that women actually like having their period, so they designed it with a 7 day break per month. Some types of contraceptive just give you the 3 weeks of pills per month, others give you 7 dummy pills too, so you don't have to remember whether you need to take a pill every day. Many women don't bother having the gap and use the active pill continuously.
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Huh, did not know that. Cheers for the info.
 
Professor Yaffle said:
The men who invented the contraceptive pill, strangely, got the idea that women actually like having their period, so they designed it with a 7 day break per month. Some types of contraceptive just give you the 3 weeks of pills per month, others give you 7 dummy pills too, so you don't have to remember whether you need to take a pill every day. Many women don't bother having the gap and use the active pill continuously.
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Actually my wife was told not to do this by her doctor. Actually two different doctors, one while I was present. OK to do once in a while, but not all the time. It is also more expensive to do this.
 
rjh01 said:
Actually my wife was told not to do this by her doctor. Actually two different doctors, one while I was present. OK to do once in a while, but not all the time. It is also more expensive to do this.
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Yes, most doctors would say this because it is not taking the medicine as designed and there haven't been any studies on possible effects. However:

Is it safe to turn off your cycle for so long? Many doctors say yes. In fact, oral contraceptives were originally designed as a continuous-hormone model, but the "placebo week" was inserted for "purely cultural reasons," says Carolyn Westhoff, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University. "It was thought that women would find it reassuring to get a period every month. The week off was inserted not for biological reasons, but just to make women and doctors more comfortable."
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Personally I only miss the break occasionally, for the convenience of timing, but I do know women who use the pill continuously.
 
That's a little bit disturbing that there haven't been any/many studies. One would figure that forcefully stopping a part of your anatomy from doing what it evolved to do, for a long span of time, could lead to some sort of pathology later in life. Actually, I'm pretty sure I've heard of studies confirming this principle in other parts of the anatomy.
 
TheDaver said:
That's a little bit disturbing that there haven't been any/many studies. One would figure that forcefully stopping a part of your anatomy from doing what it evolved to do, for a long span of time, could lead to some sort of pathology later in life. Actually, I'm pretty sure I've heard of studies confirming this principle in other parts of the anatomy.
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The pill essentially mimics the body's hormonal condition during pregnancy or lactation. For much of human history women have spend much of their fertile years in one or other of these conditions. If we look at it that way, it is the modern situation of having a great many periods over one's lifetime which is aberrent. In short, the female reproductive system evolved to make and nurture babies, not to bleed once a month.
 
My mother got something similiar to these when she was pregnant. No effect whatsoever. How are they supposed to work, anyway?
 
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