science

I went to Alaska and purchased a tub of "devils salve". I kept getting these neck rashes that I would treat with diluted potassium hydroxide (because it was available in my photography darkroom). So I tried the devils slave thinking maybe, like salicilic acid, this too had some real undiscovered scientific value. So then it did! After a few weeks, the rash was gone and my skin was healing. This happened several times.

Sometime later it happened again and my usual diy secret treatment didn't fix it. LOL I even posted about it somewhere. As a last ditched effort I cave in and took an intihistamine. The rash was gone the next day.

Now, the devil's salve is probably containing useful substances but its " the process ". Like bearing grease doesn't do anything useful if you don't put it on a bearing. It can do bad things if applied elsewhere, like collecting dust or degrading plastics. Probiotics don't do anything if you don't put them in the gut. ETC. So basically I had an allergy and I wasn't aware. Going to diy medicine should definetly be last resort. My problem is my fear of the inevitable incurable disease that will one day make my insurance impossible to pay and steal everything I ever worked for. That's all.