Have you ever tried this?

Question

Bang your head on the hatchback. Or hit your thigh on the corner of the dining room table. Drop a dead weight on your toe.

Whatever you do make sure the impact is hard enough to cause bruising.

Then take one amethyst and hold it gently against the point of impact. Leave it there for about 30 seconds and keep an open mind.

This is tried and tested. Especially when my daughter was small enough to warrant a kitchen gate and i kept having uninvited encounters the metal rod that locks it.

Learnt this through the grape vine. And i believe you shouldn't knock something before you try it. Alll that tells me is i am dealing with an inflexible and narrow-minded character.

Last word before i say try it. Use as dark an amethyst as possible. And let it be at least the size of a 20p coin although the larger, the better.

Try it and let me know what happened to your bruise ;-) I'm not gonna tell you what will happen to it. You will have to try for yourself. But i believe now

Answer 1

baloney

Answer 2

One person's open-mindedness is another's gullible.

Answer 3

I don't think so.

Answer 4

If i have a knock i usually scream hold my breath and count to 10 that usually works.

Answer 5

Placebo effect?

This reminds me of a Fast Show sketch... "I think most bruises last about five days". Have to do a few repeated readings before you could draw conclusions. I could probably claim that chewing pens causes my cold to go faster, it's hard to determine when something like that is quite random and doesn't happen that often. Also, people tend to remember the positives, the times it 'worked', and forget the number of times it didn't really make a difference.

I've got an open mind... but I think I'll stick to using ice.

Answer 6

it's interesting your challenge,and the quartz stone involved,i know that amethyst has a healings quality and promotes psychism as well also has been used to guard against drunkenness,so thaks for sharing that information,i will consider it !

Answer 7

Never tried it,but often bruise at work,haven't any amethyst other than a ring belonging to me Mrs,would that work whilst in a ring too! Prob wont get back to you in time and no offence i am not about to hit myself with anything other than accidentally,how about i post a question later on,like how the h**l does this work etc.

Answer 8

Are you sure you haven't banged your own head once too often?

Answer 9

And the prize for silliest question of the week goes to you, congratulations.I can almost hear the cries of pain resounding through the Yahoo world.

Answer 10

What? Self inflicted pain isn't and shouldn't be recommend...

Answer 11

ow!!! u tricked me into dong it! oh.... that was stupid ^^

Answer 12

LOL @ googlyworm, great sense of humour.

I'll remember that peice of advice, if I get a bruise I will try it.  Thanks.

Answer 13

Complete and total c**p.

This is a great example of how a poorly thought out experiment and the power of suggestion totally confuses people. "Tried and tested", indeed.

First, if you work with one bruise at a time, that will tell you nothing. You have no idea how significant the bruise is, whether it is deep or very superficial. You can't predict how fast it will clear up. All that one bruise -- in other words, one test -- is going to give you is fodder for your imagination. You've got nothing to compare it to, and this is the basis for many a deception.

If you want to investigate this with some semblance of reason, you'd need to work with a number of bruises, maybe around 10, all being the same size, shape and severity, all on the same person, all in the same vicinity on the body, and using a double-blind experimental design. Of course, this isn't practical because you don't want to hurt yourself to this extent! Secondly, there's no way you can reproducibly create identical bruises. Without identical bruises, there is no way to detect if the supposed therapy is having any effect without resorting to a very large clinical study.

Crystal therapy has always been and remains pure c**p. Think with your brains, folks.

Edit: And to respond to the asker of the foolish question who referred to me as a "tosser", the fact that you're a parent and you apparently like to treat your children's injuries with woo-woo mumbo-jumbo is a tad disturbing. I hope for your kids' sake that your little exercise in Dark Ages mythology is not representative of your parental responsibility but is instead just a lark. And good luck with that experimental design. It's well known that Sheldrake is a crackpot who couldn't put together a valid experimental design if his life depended on it, which further casts doubt on your knowledge in that regard.

Answer 14

I've used a clear quartz crystal . . and the bruse healed up by the next day instead of several days

Answer 15

I love crystals & use them all the time. I used SODALITE  for panick attacks, & it really helped me. I put the sodalite on my solar plexus where I get them & they're gone in alittle while.

I have a few really good books on crsytals which I would recommened, these are ones I trust but thyere are lots of other good books also.

also, rose quartz which is a heart stone, really helped me with a broken heart once.

Answer 16

There is no magical property to amethyst that will heal bruises any more than putting any smooth stone or a spoon against a bruise. Its pushing the blood back into the body which has built up just under the skin.

Now if you want some real miracle healing, give up the magic practices which only invite demons into your life and turn to God.

Answer 17

Not sure if this would work, might work as a placebo.

This is my view, it is possible that is is effective, we just dont know why?

As more and more folk lore medicine is being tested, with most folklore there is a seed of truth in it, we just have to find that seed.

Maggots are one again being used on open wounds to clean them and Leeches are bing used in limb reattachment procedures. These are still in the testing later testing stages, but are being used.

Both have been dismissed in the past as folklore, but we have discovered the seeds of truth from within

Answer 18

I am clumsy and doing that kind of thing all the time, where do you buy this amethyst from - are you a dealer?

Answer 19

Whats the point here.  You don't have to fix it if it isn't broke.

Answer 20

Interesting - Did you know that if you rub your testicles on a cheese grater then rub a piece of coal on the wounds it magically disappears!

Try it you'll be amazed

Answer 21

ah no thank you please!

if i am unlucky enough to hurt myself is one thing, but to hurt myself on purpose?? no grazzi

Answer 22

Interesting. I used to have a polished amethyst stone in my pocket for years - it was my birthstone. I left it somewhere - people have been talking bollox ever since. Perhaps, it's connected?

Answer 23

What a load of cobblers.

Answer 24

Don't listen to T.R., he's a little closed-minded. Not stupid, but misdirected certainly.

Anyway, I find that strange. Not the concept in general, just... why amethyst? I have heard lots of the propertise of amethyst, but I never heard that it would cure bruising. Headache? Yep. Blocked chakra? sure. But bruising? That's different.

So I find the choice of crystal odd, but I will try it out next time I have a bruise, since if it does work that is valuable info for me. And I know some people who seem to bruise when flys land on them, and maybe this would be helpful.

I have this beautiful piece of an amethyst geode on my desk (just a piece, but it cam from a large geode. It's about the size of a fist) so maybe I will try it with that one.

If I bruise within the week I will write what happened!

Answer 25

I never tried that, but i have read pebbles and rocks have magic healing powers just like magnets.

Thanks for the tip on the magic rock.

Answer 26

Why on earth would I purposely want to hurt myself!! Just to try and heal my wounds!! Sounds a little crazy!!

Answer 27

Ive got an amethyst geode.......weighs about 28 kilos.......will that work if i just drop it on my foot to cause and cure the bruise?

edit

Sorry matey...im just going to take your word for it. Well tonight anyway. If  per chance i bruise a part of my anatomy tomorrow, i will try it, and let you know how I get on.

Oh.....btw.....despite having 3 chronic medical conditions, the only conventional medicine i take is 75mg asprin. So no I wouldnt hurt an animal in the name of science.

edit

Still didnt bruise myself today. Might get a few tomorrow at a demo (oooooeeeerrrrr) will take a small peice with me, and try it out.......

Answer 28

Strange and intriguing, Amethyst is my birthstone.

Crystals and the like, give off a frequency or vibration that our bodies are affected by in different ways.

I do not, although, my wife bruises easily, Next time I ketch her with the pool boy I'll put on my research cap.

JUST KIDDING......  

Be kind and love one another.......

Answer 29

We'll no I would not hurt an animal in the name of science , nor any other living creature.  I have done this experiment in high school. The boy who did won 2nd place in the school. He did a trial of a bruise without using the amethyst, and then with using it. I remember the experiment was of a coarse of a week. (five days)  And the bruise with the amethyst seemed to heal more then the other bruise. But I always questioned the fact that he did the experiment on two different people, so whos to say if one person has a better healing quality etc. Quite intresting question.  If a tree falls in the forrest and no one is around does the tree make a sound. Too many factors to really get a "scientic answer"

Answer 30

Ouch that hurt, k i did it, now what happens?

Answer 31

I'll give it a go...