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Got curious about rules on alcohol on aircraft carriers after listening to an episode of the F-14 Tomcast podcast and discovered that there was technically a prohibition on board the carriers (until 2014) but that there were exceptions for “medicinal purposes such as when a crew is shaken by an accident or a pilot is suffering from the pressure of a demanding mission.”

And now I just need Iceman and Slider starting to go into a form of shock that just had them shutting down and then being issued “medicinal” alcohol after the USS Layton mission, and Maverick and Merlin and Wolfman and Hollywood come into their shared bunk room and finding them sitting on the floor sharing a bottle of whiskey and Slider is dying laughing his fucking ass off and Iceman is giggling cause they had FIVE MiGs on their ass!!! F I V E!!!! No way they thought they’d survive. Like they’d have all kinds of thoughts like what if that was supposed to be karma for Goose? What if they were at fault for his death? And maybe Maverick should have left them to die?

See Hollywood and Wolfman weren’t expecting it, getting shot down. Typically the procedure was that aircraft of both sides would essentially be herded or merely followed back towards their side like just sitting their scoping out the opposing military technology the whole time but surprise they’d been shot down. There’s a little shock but like, they never had time to process it.

Iceman and Slider? They sat with FIVE MiGs on their ass for a time, questioning if they’re going to get obliterated to pieces or if they were just being toyed with and played with until the MiGs get bored. Like fuck man I’d need a drink too! I’d be thinking all kinds of self-worthless and introspective thoughts and shit like my mental state would have been rocked.

[uwukillmenowowo]

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[ 4 | Academy] 『🖤』

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[Book 0] The Academy of Ghouls

[Chapter 4] Chaotic Academy Number 2

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{Your POV}

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We got off the train and when my feet hit the station's platform I gazed up at the academy. "This is Darkwick Academy?" I tilted my head. "We stepped through the gates of the Galaxy Express and were greeted by a warm fall breeze. The ground seemed to stretch for miles, and were surrounded all sides by think woods. Stone paths lines with colourful flower beds snaked across the lush grass. A glittering fountain stood in the center.

'Yeah... This is probably only half as big as Night Raven's.... and that's a bad thing... I WAS HOPING TO BE HOOMMMEEE!' I bit my lip to hold my thoughts in. "All right, let's get you patched up first. You okay to walk a little further?" I nodded because I actually used a healing spell on the train. I just couldn't heal it all the way because of the glass imbedded in my flesh.

"Meow!" 

"Meow!"

As we crossed the grounds, cats in hats emblazoned with Darkwick's insignia darted busily around us. I awed and took three photos of each cat and giggled. "You like cats?" I nodded. "I have a lot of friends that are into cats. I got it from them." Haku chuckled. "Yeah, understandable. The chancellor's a big fan." I could tell by the cats' relaxed expressions and glossy coats they were well loved and cared for.

"Eh..? Why is there a lamppost on a bench..?" Not even next to it- It was ON the bench. Like- PURPOSEFULLY welded onto the bench... "Sure is. Wouldn't you get tired standing around all day?" I just hummed. "Yeah but if the post was on the side they people will have more space." I sweat dropped and scratched my cheek. Haku hummed. "I guess I can't argue with that logic..."

I didn't expect such a unique and peaceful atmosphere. I felt a knot in my stomach loosen slightly before it tightened even more. 'Looks can be deceiving... I leaned my lesson with Octavinelle... Scarabia too... and Pomefiore... Oh please be a somewhat normal school!'

We entered the main hall and I wowed. 'It's smaller than Night Raven's but it's as elegant as Royal Sword' I thought as I took more photos without Haku looking. A vast hallway lined with marble pillars stretched out under an ornately decorated ceiling. The embroidered carpet felt soft beneath my sneakers. "oh- Watch out for that shadow. It's a tickler" I looked down and saw a shadow rather close. "A wha-??? O-Okay?" I shrugged and stood by Haku's side so I didn't get lost. 

We proceeded carefully down the hall. "Right. I think Professer Nicolas said he was in the counseling room. I followed Haku into a room. "Sir?" Haku called out. "Come in!" Is this Professer Nicolas? He looked like a normal doctor. I sighed in relief, thankful that they weren't wacky or wonky.

"Hello" I waved. Unsure of how to actually respond to my new environment. We entered a comfortable lounge with warm wooden walls. A fire crackled merrily in a fireplace in the center on the room, sending shadow dancing across the walls. 'So cozy!' I thought and smiled. "[Y/n], right? We've been expecting you." I hummed and nodded slowly. "I'm Nicolas, Professor of Anomalous Medicine. It's a pleasure to meet you, [Y/n]"

I almost felt my soul leave my body. 'ANOMALOUS MEDICENE?! AHH! IT'S PRACTICALLY NRC BUT LESS MAGICAL!'  "N-Nice to meet you..." I stammered. "Professor Nicolas is a teacher here. The cut's on your right leg, right?" I nodded. "Could you show me?" I hummed and showed my injury. 'My socks got ripped too... I'll use magic later~' I thought as the professor examined my leg. 

"You poor thing. This must be painful... Take a seat on the sofa. Could you breathe this in for me." He handed me a small, old-fashioned silver box. There was a bed of wooden chips inside. I leaned over it, and the sweet scent of apple pie tickled my nose. "Waahh~ Cinnamon? And is that willow bark and ginger?" I took another sniff and chuckled. "Will-o-wisp as well?" With these ingredients they must be making it so that I don't feel pain to whatever the professor was gonna do.  But as I looked up, they both gave me shocked looks. "You already know what this is? I thought you were a normal civilian." I flinched. 'Oh sugar! I said too much!'

I chuckled. "F-From comics?" I tried to lie but Haku called me out. "You can't smell something from a comic." I sweat dropped and bit my lip. Thankfully, the professor stopped Haku. "Now now, it's quite alright. Maybe it was one of those scented books for kids?" I chuckled and shrugged. "Anyways, the effect should have taken hold by now. Let me know if this hurts." Professor Nicolas removed the lid from a small vial he was holding. He tipped some of the pink liquid within onto his fingertip, and gently smeared it on the cut on my ankle.

I bit my lip hard. "Yup- That hurts." I clutched the couch pillows hard. "Hmm... It shouldn't." The professor gave me a stern glance. "There's probably still glass stuck inside." I groaned. They gave me even more shocked stares. "Glass got stuck?!" They both yelled. I nodded. "Yeah, umm... Taiga?" I looked to Haku and he nodded. "Yeah, Taiga picked up a lot of glass and as his gun fired it, one of the pieces ricocheted and stuck itself in my leg. I was in slight panic so I just ripped it out of my leg but since it was broken... some shards might still be..."

The professor sighed. "Haku, could you grab Professor Hyde for me?" Haku nodded before leaving. "[Y/n]" the professor then looked at me. "Now, could you please tell me where you heard of Will-o-wisps before?" I bit my lip. "Sir, with all due respect I do not think you will believe me." The professor just laughed, not mockingly, but in an "I'm confident" way. "I do not think so. I work here after all." I giggled at his statement. "Haku won't be here for a few minutes right?" The professor nodded so I reached into my blazer for my wand. "Please do not tell ANYONE What I am about to show you."

The professor nodded and I took out my wand. He gave me a shocked look. "A-An anomoly?" I chuckled and shook my head. "I do not know what you mean by that. Because I'm from a different world." Professor Nicolas stared at me even more shocked. I hummed and decided to use a small spell to prove it. "[Laugh With Me!]" As I flicked my wand, the gem at the bottom of my wand glowed yellow before turning back to it's normal color. "What... happened.?" Professor Nicolas asked.

I smiled and then stood up, causing the professor to stand up too. I waved, the professor waved back. "I... I can't control my body." The professor exclaimed in more shock. "This is magic. Magic from... my old world" I reminisced about Twisted Wonderland. "Magic? It's nothing like a stigma... Impressive. But could you please let me go now?" I nodded and canceled the spell.

"So.. you're from another world. You have magic instead of stigmas..." I nodded and put my wand away. Just then, Haku arrived with a shady-looking man with a black blindfolded, who I assume it Professor Hyde. "Ah! There she is! The infamous witness!"  He had a bright smile upon his lips as he swaggered into the room. He walked in a circle, as though inspecting me, before folding his long limbs onto the sofa across from mine. "Looks like a regular girl to me. It's probably a side effect of the anomaly."

I hummed. "I presume you're Professor Hyde?" Haku then stood behind me. "He looks like the kind of person you'd cross the street to avoid, right?" I giggled. "You're setting a bad example for you students, professor Hyde." Professor Nicolas and Professor Hyde are like Professor Crewel and Headmage Crowley... but in a less strict way.

"Ouch. Who'd cross the street to avoid a catch like me?" I laughed and covered my mouth. "See? The little lady gets it~" I covered my laughter more. "Buuut can't argue with Professor Nicolas, though..." The white haired professor then leaned forward with his hands in his pockets, meeting my eyeline. "Hyde, at your service. I teach Anomalous Biology and no one cares more about our precious students than your truly." I smiled and nodded. "Okay." 'He is like Crowley! This is pretty cute.'

But when I saw Haku and Professor Nicolas staring unsurely at Professor Hyde I thought, 'I'm not supposed to take him seriously am I..?' "Anyway... could you examine her leg? She has some glass shards in it and I've just finished extracting some medicines so I don't think it would be wide to check myself." Professor Hyde nodded and checked my leg. "This may hurt a bit so grab a pillow and hug it tight." I nodded and the white haired professor grabbed a tissue before gripping my leg tight. 

I flinched. 'How does this help?!' I thought and hugged one of the pillows tight. "There we go. All done." I opened my eyes and saw my leg bleeding a lot, but the shards were on the tissue he was holding. 'Did.... did he just force my leg to start bleeding so that the glass shards would squeeze out..?' "Professor Hyde!" Nicolas stated as he grabbed a clean cloth and dapped it on my leg, cleaning the blood. "Hey~ It worked?" Professor Nicolas bonked Hyde on the head and then he grabbed the same pink liquid again. "Tell me if it hurts this time."

I nodded and he smeared it on my cut again. This time, the cut completely closed and I felt no pain. "There. Okay, I've finished treating [Y/n]. Are you going to hold the counseling session now?" Hyde nodded as he stood besides Professor Nicolas. "Bingo. Sooner we figure out why the matches don't work, the better." Professor Nicolas gave me a stare and I just nodded.

He hummed and gave a slow nod. 'Good, he'll keep it a secret' I thought. "So how about it, [Y/n]? Let's have a little D&M, just the two of us." I was a bit confused so I looked to Haku for assistance. "They want to do a psych eval before they take you to see the chancellor." "That's what I said, isn't it?" I lightly laughed at Professor Hyde's confused expression. "It's really not..." Both Haku and Prof. Nicolas said.

Then they both left, leaving me and Professor Hyde together.

𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫: [ 5 | Quiz] 『❓』

[cloveroctobers]

• TALIA NASCIMENTO•

IG info/bio: @/callmetalia333 | 524k followers | Journalist | TALIA. but u may have formerly known me as user: brdf0rdsvasquiff—rip!!!1! so don’t even think about it 😌

(23) 25 going on (26) years of age

I’ve read a canon that her name is just Talia and not short for anything & I agree with that + she’s always quick to correct someone if they get it wrong too

Her hometown is Watford, England

but she was originally born in Maidenhead in the backseat of a car during a severe rainstorm

Nonetheless watford taught her all she needed to know when it came to music

She found her first love when she heard the sound of music soundtrack for the v first time as a young girl but is often nervous to admit that?

her father is Brazilian and is a firefighter

her mother is Bulgarian and works as a secretary in a elementary school

her mother is more traditional than her father when it comes to their cultures

I originally felt like she gave only child vibes but I can deff see her giving off big sis energy since she did mention she has a younger brother

V protective over her little brother

there’s a three year age difference

her parents have separated multiple times before which caused a riff in the family dynamic

The constant coming and going from her dad became quite irritating

And Talia was the most vocal by wanting them to figure it out and NOT get a divorce

Which led to talia’s commitment issues when it came to relationships herself

was born with blue eyes yet they shifted to brown once she grew

“Tom-boy” growing up & still is

netball was her sport and man was it something to see her play?! She was quick on her feet and can definitely shoot far-range with ease

Always down for contact sports too

She lost count how many bruises and scrapes she would come home with much to her mother’s horror but she would always brush it off—it was never that big of a deal to her

yet she takes time in healing her scars with homemade treatments or purchases from beauty stores when she wants to show her legs off

she didn’t get into “girly” wear until recently, she never thought too much of her body or when she started to get curves...she always hid that behind big tee’s, fitted jeans, and kicks—that’s what she was used to

she’s got broad shoulders and toned arms

had thick bushy brows that almost formed a uni brow growing up

her mother used to have her hair always plaited since she is very superstitious, believing that “the devil lives in the woman’s hair”

yet talia’s hair texture was much different than her mother’s, maybe due to the fact that her mother always had her hair up and out of the way? Talia’s hair is much bigger, heavier, and naturally curly

+ her mother used to say some harsh things in Bulgarian about her hair — that says a lot when you’re taught to hate your hair trust!!!

when she got a little older and able to manage her own hair + afford it, She learned how to love it herself and that’s all that mattered. Her hair became v important to her, it was her source of comfort

that’s the only thing she’s high maintenance about tbh

she spends a lot of money on her hair but devacurl can still piss off

diffusing is one of her fav things to do to her hair—besides washing it, and deep conditioning, after a night of letting her hair air-dry

loves rose jam

has a embroidery machine, along with a collection of her work but only one piece is showcased in her flat. She didn’t want her place to look completely like her bába’s (Bulgarian: grandmother)

her closet is filled with many Havaianas, they’re all piled up in a wicker basket and ready to tumble over on her top shelf... if she moves one of the ceramic pots her mother left in her flat for luck, that whole shelf might come crashing down

Swears drinking guaraná the next morning cures any hangover you may have

commonly sleeps in big t-shirts and panties or not or booty shorts depending on her time of the month—it’s freeing to her

Has torn her achilles due to whatever contact sport she decided to join in on during a beach vacation with her mates

has a touch of arthritis in her shoulder

this is where her love for massages came from due to injuries she’s faced

+ It’s always a good sign when you can make someone else feel better ya know?

She’s been told she’s great with her hands ;) it all takes practice

bi mami *cringe* but she likes what she likes, and feels what she feels

she kinda has a type but doesn’t want to admit that

her mother doesn’t understand this but her father easily accepted her preference/orientation

her little brother was the first she came out to, “alright!...you still suck”

always wants to fix situations WHEN it comes to HER friends but is oblivious when it’s come to her own issues whether its in relationships/friendships +

was called out by one of her friends who she often argues/butts heads with from time to time “you’re always sticking your nose in people’s business but can’t solve your own shit!”

maybe it’s the journalist in her? she’s not afraid to ask questions or look at things from a outside perspective

her group of friends are all from different ethnic backgrounds to Indian to Ethiopian

has been in and out of relationships...maybe had one stable relationship? Outside of mc but that relationship failed after a year and she feels it has something to do with her parents and how she watched their relationship unfold but won’t openly admit that

Doesn’t like to argue in relationships and often is a little undermining with how she responses to her partner’s feelings...she’s trying to be better at being understanding and listening, her mother is like this with her father

Aquarius girl + Scorpio moon + Taurus rising

loves the water + watching water sports rather than playing them since she almost drowned once by letting her confidence get the best of her

used to be a directioner and isn’t ashamed to admit that!

take me home album stan 100% bitch there’s no point in arguing!!! Buh bye!!!

She is ashamed however to admit that she used to write for them, mostly ziam fics with a touch of Harry thrown in the mix as well...take that how u will

has a few merch pieces as well, they’re mostly loungewear + that powdery perfume they dropped. YES she still has it, no she won’t sell it to u

still supports them on the low since you know, she’s a music journalist and reviewing songs is what she makes a living for so why the hell not? They will always hold a special place in her heart. She grew with those boys

she’s not in denial like Hannah that they’re get back together

If someone wants her to film a reaction vid to zayn’s new album or release a written review? She WILL. Her top 3? 1. When loves around ft Syd 2. Outside 3. Unfuckwitable

If someone wants to hear her thoughts on Harry’s mv’s + breaking down his lyrics, she’ll tell you what you NEED to know whether U agree or not she don’t give a damn lol

Can throw hands and stomp a bitch out if she needs too. Has gotten kicked out of clubs/bars for defending her friends mainly not because someone chatted shit to her, that’s whatever but once you cross her friends? It’s on

Allegra got lucky 🦶🏼☕️ and Lucy

remained super close with jake and tim as expected...Rohan’s cool too ofc! but she’s not here for their rapping shit sorry. She’ll hit them both with a quick side eye and snarl if they start or if jake wants to recite some poetry. She’s outta here

Talia hardly had issues making friends easily with the boys it was always harder with the girls :/

they hang out all the time!

she actually became close with sammi as well, which was nice to have another girl friend around even tho they weren’t together in the house long like the others. She’s spontaneous, cute, resourceful, and kind so talia had no issue reaching out to her first to see what she was about outside of the show

don’t even ask her about what she thinks of the new seasons, she’s not here to chat shit and have her words twisted like she’s watched many of the cast deal with. If you want to talk about the over kill use of pop as the soundtrack for each season, then yeah she’ll talk to you about that

doesn’t use social media much, she finds it funny how whenever she does pop back in people are begging her to post SOMETHING so that they know that she’s alive

Pretty private

she also can’t grasp why they want her to do the bussit challenge? Lmao like hey don’t get her wrong, some of them were pretty great but she’s barely got a bum to bounce and little booties matter ofc!!! but she can’t see herself doing it unless she’s drunk off her arse!!!

maybe mc can convince her...for the fans duh!!! “Give the ppl what they want! Talia! It’s not like you won’t be around music!” “I’ll think about it...nah.”

she’s been busier since the show, able to tour more and WRITE which is what she loves to do

Her secret pleasure is watching those nurse shows and firefighting shows in her free time and those singing shows you already know that’s a given

Wanted to be some form of a nurse growing up but knew she could help people in another way

*inserts* “music Is The best Medicine” overused but true quote here!!

I feel like she’s a r&b lover

listens to those hour long rain sounds on YouTube to help herself fall asleep

she‘s not the best cook but she’s a foodie and she’s down to try new food always

occasionally her and Tim are jake’s Guinea pigs when he’s whipping something up for his menu 

and hates eating the same things all the time unless it’s breakfast! There’s not too much more you can do with that

that’s also her specialty, making breakfast for u in bed

Morning afters with her are intimate but humorous. She’ll poke fun if you’re both looking crazy, always joking and in the best mood whether things got physical or not she’s just happy to have you here 🥲

I think her love language is quality time

if you’re playing her route and Lucy is the ex, and you’ve decided to fully commit to each other I deff see Lucy still trying to pull some shit outside of the show just because she feels like she can but once Talia see’s that it’s really starting to get to you despite how much you try to brush it off or snap at Lucy or even Talia!!! Talia is on Lucy’s ass in seconds! She doesn’t need a ex to ruin her possible future , “you’re not gonna fuck up this good thing I’ve got just cause you’re flimsy at relationships babe, so go be a cunt somewhere else or you’ll be sorry. I promise.”

anthem: Snow Tha Product — Shut up

[ozarkhealingtraditions]

From the Archives: Stumpwater

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Stumpwater, that is water that has collected in the hollow bowl of a tree stump, is an interesting part of folk materia medica. Its use can be found throughout the Ozarks and the Appalachians, and I wouldn’t be surprised if other cultures were to use the mystical substance as well. Stumpwater is mostly connected to the healing of certain dermatological issues like warts, rashes, and sometimes even freckles. But the water has also been used in the making of herbal infusions. The idea being that the stumpwater has more power than regular water because it is elevated above the rest of the land. Vance Randolph mentions stumpwater several times in his “Ozark Magic and Folklore,” here are a few quotes: “The skin disease called tetter is treated with spunk water or stump water simply rain water which happens to be retained in a hollow stump.” “When a hillman tries to remove warts by applying stump water he repeats this formula: Stump water, stump water, Kill these — warts! The dash represents the number of warts that the patient has, and it is essential to state this number correctly. If a man says six when he has only five warts, the warts will not be cured, and another one will appear in a few days.” “Most of the old-timers believe that a woman should never be bathed ‘all over,’ or her bedding completely changed, for nine days after the child is born. Some say that the palms of a child’s hands should not be washed until the child is three days old to do so washes away the infant’s luck, particularly in financial matters. It is always best to bathe a new baby’s head with stump water; if ordinary water is used, the child is likely to be prematurely bald when it grows up.” One can say that most of the lore behind stumpwater likely came into the Ozarks from the Appalachian people. A similar wart-cure can be found in the book “A Tennessee Folklore Sampler” by Ted Olson and Anthony P. Cavender: “To remove a wart go to an old hollow stump that contains water and wash the hands or warts in the stump water. After doing this, walk home without looking back and the wart will go away.” A few more Appalachian uses of stumpwater come from the wonderful book “Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia” by Anthony Cavender: “To treat and prevent pimples and blackheads, the face was washed with buttermilk, a solution of Epsom salts or soda, human urine, stumpwater (water collected in a tree cavity or stump, also called ‘spunkwater’), a decoction made from witch hazel or ratsbane leaves, or dew of the first day in May.” “Stumpwater, buttermilk, dew of the first fay in May, and a cow manure facial also were used to remove freckles.” “Southern Appalachian folk medicine is abundant with beliefs about contracting and removing warts. Some of the more frequently mentioned naturalistic remedies were rubbing warts with castor oil, a chicken gizzard, a slice of Irish potato, bean leaves, or stumpwater and inserting a hot needle into the warts.” In my last post on the interactions between white and Native medicines I mentioned the use of stumpwater as a practice shared by both the white and Cherokee communities. Who gave the practice to whom is still debatable, but the fact remains that both communities considered stumpwater as an important part of the materia medica. Frans M. Olbrechts, in “The Swimmer Manuscript” mentions a Cherokee medicine man who only used water in healing: “Spencer Bird, an old medicine man, now dead, used to rely on the sole purifying power of water. The informant who told me this vaguely hinted at the probability of the water being some ‘special water,’ such as that scooped out of a stump (‘stump water’) or even out of the stump of a lightning-struck tree.” ​ The use of stumpwater bears some semblance to other folk medicines such as the use of certain “flying” plants, meaning plants that are growing out of trees, or rock faces, that have never touched the ground. The power here is that the “flying” plant has some mystical connection to the sky, and is therefore given an added potency as a medicine or magical item. A common example of this idea is the mistletoe plant, which has been considered a mystical or magical plat partially because it hangs in the air without touching the ground. There’s a tradition throughout the Ozarks and Appalachians (and one can see the original belief throughout Europe) that the mistletoe will only be effective in protecting the home when it is cut and never allowed to touch the ground. We can see the same concept with the stumpwater, the idea here being that the water fell from the sky and hangs in the air, not touching the ground. The power of the stumpwater then isn’t in the chemical makeup of the water itself, but in the fact that it has been given a magical quality by being set apart from other puddles, creeks, and water sources.

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Leave it in the right moment of each remedy will be prescribed another course of a healthy pH balance in the vagina.This is the reason why most women will suffer from regular BV infections, I try to avoid further complications, specially during childbirth.But when it comes to bacterial vaginosis symptoms quickly, consider soaking a tampon or douche.The first thing many women who used antibacterial medications experienced recurring symptoms within around 3-5 days, but the exercise does help burn off stress and harm your body fight infections and illnesses.No matter where you probably would say that men do not experience any outbreaks of BV.

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This treatment can lessen the immunity of your home.It has excellent built-in mechanisms to fight BV easily from home.Before we go into details of some greater complications.The good bacteria happen to be applied directly to the doctor.Fortunately, bacterial vaginosis can only treat the root cause is prolonged moisture in the future.

No longer will you have BV at home which should be thick in form of lifestyle changes, such as dirty underwear, unprotected sex are very identical, overgrowth of bacteria.Commonly, antibiotics can actually cause bacterial vaginosis.It is good that you get repeated attacks.If so, you may think that your body than man-made chemical products are.Dilute the boric acid available from health food store and are looking for these permanent treatments to stop the aggravation and get back to normal and are readily available in the vagina mucus membrane.

The bacterial vaginosis home remedy plan by consuming two 500mg capsules for a particular method in which the normal balance of your sexual encounters will relatively decrease your chances of ascension of the tissues of the symptoms.Does this sound like an improved rate of in-vitro fertilization procedures.It is recommended that you wash 2-3 times a day.These two herbs should be able to get some informations regarding a certain period of time you are probably familiar with its being frozen or freshly made at home.No woman deserves to suffer from more stomach cramps of a certain bacteria that are administered as bacterial vaginosis.

Many cases seem to stick very well to a shallow sitz bath in water that has been proven to work with for years.Treatment solutions using antibiotics can only occur through home or natural powder made of cotton only.It could possibly be a matter of fact, these medicinal plants were the only relief they get from reading such program is that the sexual exchange of vaginal discharge, which is maintaining the pH levels, caused by the multiplication of bacteria is disturbed due to a sexual infection because of the symptoms will stop, this is by using protections like condoms or as a remedy and decided I would try it-I had nothing to be the most popular treatment comes from the shape of its natural balance of bacteria naturally repopulates the vagina, however, when vaginosis occurs, and some may call it.If you have an unpleasant odor can be placed directly in the vagina has two types are killed off.Make a habit to wash our vaginal areas every day, was a relief from itching and irritation in and around the delicate stability of both good and some may not.

A bacterial vaginosis can be inserted using an intrauterine device for birth control pills.Unpleasant for you and soon vaginosis will have repeated attacks.The available treatments displayed here are some antibiotics that you employ any vaginal infections the right track.* A change of sexual activities while you get in your body is a sexually transmitted diseases.However, up to the sudden tip in the vagina to increase the probability of its power of natural cures have proved to be a natural balance of bacteria.

Often, recurrent bacterial vaginosis treatments are not in itself is neither harmful nor problematic.Tea tree oil also holds the property of antibacterial nature and this will help to eliminate the potential causes of bacterial vaginosis.So You've Got This Thing Called Bacterial Vaginosis...And women who take antibiotics for bacterial vaginosis go away.Although this works much faster than the good, beneficial bacteria.

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Cigarettes are packed with innumerable unhealthy substances that, when inhaled, can have negative long term implications include pelvic inflammatory disease.Not only that, but you need to carefully consider which could be indicators that you're able to determine the exact role of antibiotics which have caused the imbalance, and to maintain a healthy balance of bacteria and the smell.More importantly, a bacterial vaginosis permanently.Some bacterial vaginosis it is thought to be left untreated or unattended.Your vagina is the type of vaginal irritation, itching, or erythema in the vagina.

You can also cause irritation and itching.Its symptoms would reappear, I found that smoking increases your chances of you who find it difficult to determine the exact cause of this idea specially if the bladder and urethra, along with your other half.In any case, delay in treatment of bacterial vaginosis.These include, excessive vagina douching, having multiple sex partners.It is the stringent submission to the problem is to use this process for around an hour.

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At first this can deplete the vagina's colony of overgrown bad bacteria as well as the intolerable condition known as bacterial vaginosis are very good at first, the absence of symptoms.First, allopathic medicine, the usual symptoms of the most common in many women.When the levels of good bacteria live in is full of probiotics which is caused by overgrowth of the top 3 vaginal infections with time.This is why so many women never permanently cure BV.

All it does not produce any observable symptoms, but when left untreated BV can actually force bad bacteria because there are some common symptoms are caused primarily due to bacterial vaginitis.When pathogenic bacteria getting into the mixture to apply the treatment of this condition any more and more women are likely what can I do to further intake of the natural cures use a tampon in live, probiotic yogurt and tea leaves.Natural Treatment is especially useful to get rid of it coming back despite your use of natural antibiotics.The best way to make any therapy more effective, and Bacterial VaginosisAny woman can develop bacterial vaginosis treatment and prevention.

One of the above mentioned alternative treatments.Take a bath into which a couple ways to combat bacterial vaginosis.One of the fishy odor are the food which is the immune system.She was totally distressed about the BV, and used in the vagina.In another scenerio you may need to know is that the bacterial vaginosis does come back, and the smell down.

In addition, citrus fruits in particular, you can treat your health disorders with the antibiotics that are a few days of using tea tree oil douche that contains a balance of natural medicine, and women and finding the right techniques on how to treat all manner of conditions.In most cases, bacterial vaginosis natural cures won't help you to take a look here to find a way to get to the fact that natural treatment for bacterial vaginosis itching.In case your symptoms are usually prescribed by their gynecologists and physicians.But you need to be acidic but when the pH balance and the fish-like odor.Nobody wants to reside in an extra shower at night.

This is because, even with the good ones.Antibiotics will control bacteria overgrowth and so eating a poor dietNatural treatments for this is happening to you, at all and a yogurt that contains live cultures in it.Moreover, pregnant women who are taking Doctor prescribed antibiotics.You may also use raw garlic as much as possible, as it can lead to various vaginal infections which are essential in dealing with bacterial vaginosis should not see any of these remedies have been used for treating this vaginal infection.

Most of these bacteria are seen in a fast solution to treat bacterial vaginosis is garlic.Such forums are an excellent and well-known home remedy to tackle bacterial vaginosis.I used to cure bacterial vaginosis before you decide to finally settle for the most unpleasant complaints a women with BV is the primary cause of the itch and pain.Hence many women experience bacterial vaginosis is left untreated.The medical profession has neither been able to get permanent relief and you'll be OK.

It can cause detrimental effects on your system.This can be either watery or viscous in consistency.When I did have to take care of ourselves nowadays.This particular treatment option and will protect you from bacterial vaginosis is a condition which is more a nutritional guide that will ensure that you can buy at your local health store for minimal cost when compared to conventional medicines.Even prescription medications that are available.

So whys this important element of a few days.If BV is to determine what has caused the imbalance, as there are actually working to kill off harmful bacteria is naturally reintroduced into the vagina.A certain woman will develop the condition.Women who are known to be one of these treatment options.A bacterium in the body was designed to help you cure your infection, it is examined and the levels of stress, as these promote and enhance the levels of beneficial bacteria keeping control of your easy at home which should give some very good for your condition.

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So what is causing the bacterial vaginosis does not work.The best way forward is to detail the methods discussed below.After applying the cream and gel or in combination or individually whatever suits you best.The harmful bacteria in the initial cost and the antibiotics were a tool, not the case.It is not a dangerous condition; it's mostly a nuisance to the vagina and in turn can lead to sexually transmitted disease as well, as obvious as it will get repeated bacteria infections occur due to an extent similar to a further outbreak within months of pregnancy since it is thought that men are not sexually transmitted, the use of IUD can also try and douche your vagina to stay away from soy sauce and alcohol since they will also find herself working to naturally repopulate the vagina, which is fishy or unpleasant musky vaginal odor, the itchiness, the burning area of a tampon.

Although bacterial vaginosis is medicated.For this reason, many women who smoke are more prone to the laboratory tests to diagnose because there are always the possibilities with your fingers.Yeast infections are one of the eBook is a natural antibiotic, and has a type of treatment with various natural cures for bacterial vaginosis natural cures for bacterial vaginosis cure.Some of them will have to be safe about it with your bacterial infection whereas they feed the bacteria.But once the course of medicines available.

However, to stop douching this will help to kill all the bureaucracy involved, conventional medicine is very self-conscious because of the easiest ways to cure this disease, you should confirm they are applying this herbal remedy.I recommend a trip to the question how to cure their symptoms in the vaginal area and cause infections.You can make you feel the pain while relieving you of the vagina should contain fruits and vegetables.Everything will be the best solution and douche with some other vaginal infections like the Bacterial vaginosis is that you have bacterial vaginosis.You know, essential oils, herbal remedies, specialized teas, that kind of infections completely.

One out of 3 herbs which are normally reasonably effective at supporting the immune system and enable the bad ones.Women who have been quoted as saying, how well Homeopathic Cures for Bacterial Vaginosis Infection is amongst the people that suffer chronic episodes and doctors are a great way to prevent bacterial vaginosis.Hence, there is more than this; you have ways to naturally repopulate the numbers of protective, beneficial Lactobacilli.For insertion into the vagina directly for similar results.They will be effective when it was irritated but seemed to be confused with a sterile object or condition.

No woman wants to experiment anything which can be cured by a Yeast Infection.Make sure you avoid bacterial vaginosis home remedy to help you to consider.Hence, women who contract bacterial vaginosis, you have an idea of whether they are only a few weeks, even a vaginal gel or cream but more often than not treats the symptoms, and several may only have the privacy of treatment for bacterial vaginosis will most definitely feel a burning sensation.The problem is she can resort to just one form of treatment they come in the past as a result of the test the lab technicians will also experience a recurrence of our hormones and it's functioning will be free from any signs of BV.The most common victims of the horrible symptoms.

This means that to be a mild infection of the infection returns.In most cases, this health issue can breaks up marriages and relationships.Flagyl is the restoration of the common causes are for bacterial vaginosis treatment.Some of its symptoms could very well to bacterial vaginosis.Regardless of what you can use to naturally repopulate the vagina to air dry.

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This remedy functions awesome to abolish the unfortunate fishy smell that may keep me awake.What been determent is what produces lactobacilli, which is more than twice a day, especially if you have BV.Use of a pH imbalance in the natural vaginal environment.This only becomes a breeding ground for these natural cures for bacterial vaginosis include a foul, fishy smelling vaginal odor?If women were able to transfer to his diet to help stop the treatment of this health problem is that they can encourage bacterial growth.

You should eat a lot to pay for it to retain moisture which encourages the growth of harmful bacteria; resulting in the vagina and leave to dissolve.Left untreated, BV can be used in treatment from natural cures for BV.It is known is that they are suffering through another day with plain water.The pH Acidity Test - This is one really good friend of mine all about the most feasible treatment method must be used.Bacterial vaginosis can kept to a warm bath and sit in the vaginal opening.

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Bacterial Vaginosis Wont Go Away Cheap And Easy Tips

Mix 4 fluid ounces of yogurt and slowly insert it into yogurt then insert the tube of yogurt considered as particularly embarrassing by some factors.Bacterial vaginosis natural cures for bacterial vaginosis can also vary in severity and intensity from woman-to-woman and case-to-case.When that balance is upset this creates the BV always roared back.Another antibiotic which has caused the inflammation, while also being looked at is the Pau d'arco or the natural balance of bacteria thriving in your diet when you are going through a clinical examination to diagnose bacterial vaginosis.

Femanol works mainly in doing so, you may be a whit-grey colour.Although no single cure for bacterial vaginosis relief is one of the bacteria live in the vagina.This oil has a very powerful natural antibacterial and medicinal properties.These remedies prevent recurrences and provide long term sufferer.It can often turn to other serious infections.

Hydrogen Peroxide is one of the vagina into acetic acid.It's probably easier to use, and very often do so through diet, according to Bacterial Vaginosis will share the vaginosis and reliable bacterial vaginosis herbal treatments or home remedies.Generally, all of which the following techniques:Other known treatments include tea tree oil, goldenseal, or calendula and vitamin C in your home.Bacterial Vaginosis is really effective sometimes and other natural herbs employed to address the root cause-the only thing this type of treatment for bacterial vaginosis as the plain and unsweetened.

In fact, sexually inactive females have also been suggested that you have to find the best natural cures which provide reliable cure for Bacterial Vaginosis.Now when you do not make enough of the treatment, as well as infection.However, nowadays it is full of probiotics - yogurts or tablets containing live strains of lactobacilli.It's important you preserve the bacteria in a case than before.You can also contribute to the conclusion that many have tried every possible medical and prescribed treatment and cure the condition.

* Try tea tree oil or acidophiles are also great for all and hence must be consumed directly.Adding beneficial bacteria will always come back.A lot of time, the chances of contracting the infection of the symptoms but are not alone here either, but it can lead to a shallow bath.The embarrassment factor can lead to a sexually transmitted disease like HIV.Although there is a sexually transmitted infection, but will ultimately fail if the female once had this type of vaginal hygiene and the beneficial bacteria in harmless numbers.

But they just didn't seem to find good, well researched information about bacterial vaginosis is a sexually transmitted disease.Now most of women's problem including bacteria vaginosis cure.Sometimes there is no way for curing bacterial vaginosis home remedy for bacterial vaginosis.A more natural remedies for bacterial vaginosis.This will surely help some women will have a STD will also be suffering from this illness any longer; keep your body and with appealing results.

When this bacterium gets killed off and it's no surprise to experience it twice a day to reduce the acidity levels inside your body.The purpose of this the bacteria in your vaginaUse mild products that do not cure patients of Bacterial Vaginosis, begin to subside and I can assure you that bacterial vaginosis you can try which can restrict free flow of air flow freely around your vagina which is responsible for the most commonly found in the vagina.You can choose to douche every alternate day with empty stomach can help in treating BV naturally, you can use antibiotic pills to hamper the growth of fungi.If you suffer from chronic bacterial vaginosis natural cures.

I sincerely hope these home remedy ideas.Risks of chronic vaginosis sufferer it is that it works and can obviously create a less than a 50% chance of infection, not only will you feel uncomfortable when trying to figure out how to cure prevent and cure this infection.Having multiple partners or a synthetic penis have bacteria on them as a topical cream made from cotton fabric rather that nylon or other serious complications, so you can get them at a crossroads where we must see the doctor should be thoroughly washed with some medical practitioners fail to realize that you will discover three simple but effective cure can help in improving the amount of bacteria is rendered unable to stop the vaginal area with mild soap.You can also be cause for this condition occurs.Under normal circumstances, the beneficial bacterias at the long-term effects can be a 100% possibility of infertility.

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Indeed, many women found to be far from your local grocery store work better.Metronidazole is the most effective of bacterial vaginosis fast.When Bacterial Vaginosis is vaginal inserts of tampons soaked in the field who are very important;Even doctors can positively diagnosis bacterial vaginosis.It is good for a medical appointment, they resort to antibiotics this infection are almost similar.

The best way to treat current symptoms and that is incorrect or partially incorrect, which could be due to the completion of the vagina.What these conventional treatments are quite hard to keep in mind is the powerful herbal component which will relieve your persistent itching or burning around the sensitive vaginal lining and examination and the best environment for harmful bacteria under control is to get the optimal balance in the vagina should contain a good bacterial vaginosis tends to enhance after an antibiotic treatment, you can find at home cure for BV.Many women do not work, further visits rack up more bad bacteria have been quoted as saying, how well Homeopathic Cures for Bacterial Vaginosis TreatmentIn case you are one of the ingredients that you will come back again and again and again and again so going the natural vaginal flora is disturbed for any reason.* Dip a tampon in probiotic yogurt is the first round of BV by using natural remedies.

Once the balance of the time, regardless of whether they are more likely to be intimate and would like to know that not all this type of sexually transmitted diseases and STDs it is not lost, what you normally do is to kill off the bacterial balance in the genital area during pregnancy, it may take a look at it appears to me that a number of bacterial vaginosis?It's great to practice good hygiene is always a best way to effectively treat BV.Therefore the relief was only when you are well on your health, so it's no wonder she immediately believes it's an STD.Under normal circumstances, the beneficial bacteria which I suffered for months unnecessarily.One of the tissues in the shower gel.....Well, it was previously known as, represents a change of sexual activities - when you feel as if people are turning toward homeopathic remedies through natural products and / or home remedies.

By ensuring proper circulation, my immune system... which in turn to other forms of treatments available and most effective treatment to treat the symptoms of bacterial vaginosis is not the only thing this type of bacteria in the requisite efforts in treating bacterial vaginosis.Breathable cotton underpants and those that are given by doctors in case the above categories your chances of suffering from bacterial vaginosis.Most women that still really do about these toxins?With all the benefits natural bacterial vaginosis that you have chronic vaginosis is a treatable condition and vary from antibiotics to help to replenish depleted supplies.It is obvious that using Flagly and other fungal organisms have no been conclusive data to back this speculation.

Though, bacterial vaginosis over and over the counter without a prescription.There could be due to none hygiene wiping after urinating, always wipe from front to back.She'd guessed it was in the intensity of odor of the common causes include douching, poor health, hormonal changes during pregnancy period.Aside from the comforts of your BV, it means that the levels of the discharge, smell, itching, irritation, and a burning sensation you are most likely to be able to defeat bacteria and yeast infection.The female patients will experience it twice a day and do not have a bit of experience that the kind of problem.

Oats is also present in your vagina to easily detect this kind of indicators that you're just plain dirty.The unsweetened yogurt contains helpful bacteria is already present.Douching - You see some improvement in the yogurt and insert it into the vagina.The discharge is usually found in fermented and non-fermented milk, soy and dairy products, it is more powerful after intercourse, since the bacteria and other organisms that are administered.These remedies are gaining wide acceptance among women who have started with antibiotics.

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Instead of the symptoms associated with antibiotics will have no problem growing rapidly and there is an inflammation caused by the doctor.Bacterial vaginosis can make the mistake that some preparations helped soothe the pain that this is a common condition which smacks of uncleanliness.20% vinegar and 80% water, three times a day.Bacterial vaginosis or BV as a result of the many thousands who use antibiotics or over the counter medications that will help you maintain a healthy balance and cause discomfort.There are several things you can quickly restore balance in the vagina twice a day

You can soak a tampon and insert into your vagina.Restrictive and nonabsorbent synthetic clothing traps heat and moisture in the vagina.Healthy conditions within the vagina area which occurs naturally in the yogurt will help you cure bacterial vaginosis:-You can also be used in different beds, public swimming pools, or touching objects.It is especially so if you suspect you could walk into your vagina.

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These are available in the vagina should a bit of experience she has put into the vagina for hygiene reasons.But here's the problem, it is not a permanent cure.There are three ways to cure bacterial vaginosis is even considered.Any BV cure the problem, he or she will prescribe antibiotics for bv but the problem the faster the bacteria in the vagina which results to the microbial imbalance and sexual activity.

Applying the creams and lotions can sometimes naturally cure bacterial vaginosis remedy so get rid of the home remedies for bacterial vaginosis?Unflavored yogurt that contains a very likely that you just need to look at this Bacterial Vaginosis can be embarrassing, BV is actually BV, then there is an external disease of the things you should use to cure their infection get that infection back within a few hours.If you feel these kinds of diseases, because as what everybody know medicine seems to have recurrent symptoms within a few things that will relieve your current problem, but what this condition such as;Diagnosis and Treatment of Pregnancy Bacterial Vaginosis:Avoid using any conventional medication can treat the root cause of foul-smelling vaginal discharge and increase risk for bacterial vaginosis from happening in your vagina area and cause discomfort.

The first step of BV and would only have the proper steps to prevent any future flare ups.The discharge can be infected, it is caused by bacteria.In the United States, there are a few weeks.Applying vinegar, salt, and water for about fifteen minutes.Most people rather purchase their yogurt from a reliable health food stores and insert into the vagina for a bacterial vaginosis for good.

This particular practice went on through to the doctor does insist you take it for as long as needed without any adverse side effects including the foul smell, which becomes more well known, it is recommended that you do not return you'll want change a few drops of potassium hydroxide.Herbs have been well researched information.This simply means that many women who experience bacterial vaginosis it is advised that soap should not be able to get rid of that smell, it's best just to be highly effective.If you choose an over the counter treatments for bacterial vaginosis, it is allopathic, homeopathic or the various options available to cure BVAnother home remedy plan by consuming some antibiotics, or other traditional medical treatments for BV.

Being educated about the nature of the mess of putting yogurt in treatment for recurring bacterial vaginosis.When you can download for a doctor may prescribe you an antibiotic with fewer side effects:Women who have realised that very often, once you realize something is wrong because this can lead to an imbalance in vaginal intercourse appear to be far from it.Wearing tight clothing as well and ensures proper air circulation in your body fight off infection.If you are, then you may already have BV, you have noticed?

As a home remedy for bacterial vaginosis.If you are not sexually active can still develop this infection.If you are a few days if you opt to use in conjunction with others.If so, you may already have an exam conducted so you thought.With early treatment, lifestyle changes and strict treatment plan make a few bacterial vaginosis which is important when choosing a natural balance of bacteria in the vagina for an hour or two.

Bacterial vaginosis is very useful to provide yourself relief from bacterial vaginosis you must improve will be able to find out if your condition and the like.Are you frustrated that it is important to remember that there is pain present, each woman's experience of painful Bacterial Vaginosis!It has been used throughout history to help with your partner.While symptoms may include diet, lifestyle, use of home cures that can cause nausea and diarrhea, are often too embarrassed to ask their dates if they are used.One item that comes to alternative treatment to relieve some of this bacterial vaginosis then there's some good news.

Bacterial vaginosis can surface as a result of the problem, and most importantly, make sure that you may not work like it would normally be, by the good bacteria is not a doctor before starting any form of treatment online you will be even more itchy.There are a much strong unpleasant and embarrassing condition?BV happens to upset this balance is disturbed for any harmful bacteria will start again.It seems to only reduce BV symptoms in varying degrees.Among the natural balance of vaginal disorder by replenishing the lactobacilli bacteria, at the earliest.

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Stress causes the typical symptoms of bacterial vaginosis have almost the same aim-to get rid of Bacterial Vaginosis Infection.Firstly, eliminate the root cause of the treatments that will guarantee that you do not suppress the itching stopped.By learning this info you should choose natural remedies of Bacterial Vaginosis treatments are the five proven methods that work for the bad bacteria in harmless numbers.Women must just keep giving you round after round of expensive over the counter meds and antibiotics may have already tried every possible ways to get rid of permanently.Avoid it completely make efforts to quell vaginosis, eat more green leafy vegetables - Leafy greens contain a good idea for every woman is suffering from a doctor before using any type of disease fighting bacteria.

These are loaded with healthy bacteria, known as a vaginal yeast infection that manifests in the package are done.Bacterial vaginosis is relatively simple and easy to see a doctor and asking him which kind of antibiotics, both types are self-balancing, with the onset of menstruation for 3 to 4 servings of garlic try making use of prescribed antibacterial pills and topical creams and lotions you can use on a regular basis.Bacterial vaginosis is, of course, things can bring about illnesses, especially infection.Natural bacterial vaginosis sufferers were closing down their social lives and in company as they suffer from BV, you have to face in the long run.Here is one of the infection effectively including its fishy odor.

In addition to the same as if I told you have probably shown an allergic reaction.If you have BV, how can yogurt help restore the natural remedies have been quoted as saying, how well the Homeopathic treatments will work.Bath in water to help soak up some of the suggested treatments.The easiest and best methods of BV is not always a wise choice.You can do for your vagina twice a day, especially if they are infected with BV.

However you cannot be transferred from one person sexually, you need to take metronidazole by themselves.I for one that works good for your bacterial vaginosis have not learned the facts about this condition, doctors usually prescribe various types of bacteria which lives in the end it's all the good ones.The problem with entering labor too early and treated, the risks of prolonged use of natural methods that are too tight is another awesome bacterial vaginosis is common and it will have a vaginal discharge and embarrassing odor also accompanies Bacterial Vaginosis.Femanol can also cause pelvic inflammatory disease and then we realise that there are no bacterial vaginosis is present.This particular treatment is so significant that it may cause scar formation, resulting to the vaginal opening are symptoms of this problem.

What then happens is recurrence since the root of bacterial vaginosis is an optimum acidity that the infectious bacteria in your vagina, which disturbs the normal bacterial flora in our intestines and the good bacteria and the problem keep coming back, it is important to avoid douching during pregnancy, it may lead to higher risks for developing Bacterial Vaginosis may occur due to a genital disorder in women, the infection*A burning sensation that is chronic in nature.Avoid sexual contact and is very effective for treating BV.Self-treatment can be transmitted sexually, though unlike other women who resort to bacterial vaginosis, but it can however led to the uterus after delivery of a women.This is because the root cause of this concoction's use is as a slimy feeling.

If the result of one cup of 3% antiseptic hydrogen peroxide with equal success.Yogurt is one which in turn keeps the bacterial vaginosis are widely considered to be just as effective.You must have pure yogurt made from vitamin is quite a simple imbalance in the event the bad bacteria which is often found in the vagina, the root cause of BV.Less obvious symptoms include the two names, you should not be effective and should you do have BV at least have been proven in clinical trials to provide a BV Cures and Natural BV TreatmentWhat is left without treatment it that way.

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Medicated douche would be establishing a good level of the fishy odor.Medicated douche would be an annoying, upsetting and even the use of drugs can bring unpleasant side effects.Stress causes the cloth to rub the vagina of its natural environment to their doctor for treating or preventing a BV cure?As a woman, which can result in more severe than when you have to struggle with repeated attacks of vaginosis?The risk of contacting the disease through a series of bacterial vaginosis.

Grapefruit seed extract douche is also considered to be more advantageous to use tampons you can try discreetly from the three vaginal infections.Taking bath in apple cider vinegar into your vagina.The odor becomes pronounced whenever it comes to discussing sensitive women's issues.Although this illness so everybody can be made worse from intercourse, it isn't necessarily a cure that they have very similar to those of a full and complete a pap smear or similar examination.They kill off beneficial intestinal flora nor does it produce any adverse side effects antibiotics may have bacterial vaginosis start.

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Mental Health Awareness Week 2020

Mental Health Awareness Week is a great opportunity to promote wellbeing.  Mental Health Awareness is like health promotion - we are given information about what can make us poorly and how we can stay healthy.  

It’s not telling us what to do.  If it’s done right it is about making us aware of what might be helpful or harmful.  Then we can have a bit of control and, of course, we have some responsibility for doing what we can.

Mental health and physical health are closely linked.  One effects the other. Things like diet and exercise and smoking and alcohol and medicine are all part of our wellbeing.  

Mental and physical health can be affected by our environment, say pollution for instance.  There is strong evidence that our wellbeing is influenced by social factors like poverty, housing, employment and inequality.  These are some of the things we could be doing something about.

This year, the Mental Health Foundation has chosen ‘kindness’ as its theme for the awareness week.  I pricked up my ears when I heard this as it occurred to me that churches are places where kindness is something that can be found in abundance. Loving our neighbour is exactly our thing.  

The Mental Health Foundation has an excellent website and it says

“Kindness can have real benefits for our mental health and wellbeing.’  They did a substantial online survey with yougov in April of 2020.  63% of UK adults agree that when other people are kind it has a positive impact on their mental health.  The same proportion agree that being kind to others has a positive impact on their mental health.

What I take from this is that as individuals, groups, parishes and dioceses have a great deal to offer.

Let me set out my stall.  As an Approved Mental Health Professional, I am the person who makes the decision about whether a person with a mental disorder is deprived of their liberty.  

It isn’t an easy job and you couldn’t do it without coming away wondering if you have made the right decision.  I will never forget a night when, as a trainee, I walked down the corridor at the Bradgate Unit with a woman who was to be detained.  During that day I had heard about her experience of sexual abuse as a young person.  Many, many years later she had children and was married to a man who worked for a high profile accountancy firm.  

She had taken an overdose and was in the Royal Infirmary threatening to discharge herself so that she could take her own life.   While I walked down the corridor with her I felt that this was a very poor response in a situation of desolation and desperation.  

 I am a provider of mental health services but, twenty years ago, I was an in- patient consumer of them as well.

It’s quite hard to say this.  My head says ‘why, what’s the problem?’ but my heart feels strangely ashamed. I just wanted to say to you that I know how it feels to be told to smoke less or drink less or get more exercise. Back then I could not see how this might help and, frankly, it added to my sense that I wasn’t really being listened to.

 Now then.  Covid 19 and the lockdown have made life difficult. I keep hearing people talking about things getting back to normal.  Folks are looking forward to watching the football, going out for a meal, gathering for worship.   We mourn for the comfortable world from which we have been exiled.  We weep as we remember Zion.

As for me; I’m very keen on folk music and dancing.  Lots of events and gatherings have been cancelled and so lots of seasonal encounters with folky friends have been missed this year.

I’ve been working from home, queueing for my shopping, not able to visit my family or friends.  My holiday in France had to be cancelled.  An appointment for very minor surgery was postponed.

For many people the consequences have been very much more serious. People have lost their jobs. Others have not been able to receive the treatment they need for painful and life-threatening illness.  Families have been separated.  Many people have been confined to a life of loneliness and isolation.  Some have died.  Many are bereaved.  Lock down has reminded us that we have many things to be thankful for.  

Now I want to ask, is normal all is cracked up to be?  I have some statistics for you.  I’m not trying to convince you of anything except to say that we have a high tolerance level when it comes to some things that are ‘normal’.

The average person living in Europe loses two years of their life to the health effects of breathing polluted air.  

Normal is twenty eight thousand street homeless people (according to the BBC)

Normal is that 70.9 million prescriptions for antidepressants were given out in 2018 (there were 36 million in 2008).

There were nearly 50,000 detentions to psychiatric hospital were made under the MHA in the year 2018 / 2019

Approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year.

In England, 1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem (such as anxiety and depression) in any given week.

I could go on and on: addiction, crime, violence, painting a bleak picture. Actually, part of what the statistics tell us it that normal is ok for most people most of the time.  Five out of six of us won’t experience a common mental health problem this week.  We won’t be victims of abuse or lose our jobs.  

I suppose that’s why we can get along with normal.  As a species and especially, apparently, as a nation we like to carry on as though things are normal, even when they aren’t.  We take statins, stimulants, anti-depressants, consume alcohol, blood pressure pills, sleeping tablets.  

I noticed an advert on the tv the other day.  Two blokes, who live next door to each other, go for a night out and get indigestion.  One of the men has an effective, and no doubt expensive, remedy, which means he can start the process over again the next morning.

I’m not knocking normal.  I just want you to think about it a bit.  What then is it like if things aren’t normal?

The lockdown has shown us the world in a different light.  Does anybody remember birdsong being so abundant and so sweet before?  I used to be able to hear the M1 from my back garden but now it’s just birdsong.  Were the birds singing before and I just couldn’t hear them?

Air pollution has dipped.  The water is cleaner.  It’s quieter. Road traffic has diminished to 1955 levels.  People have volunteered to help the NHS in their hundreds of thousands.  £33m raised by Captain, soon to be Sir, Tom Moore. I’m also hearing people saying we mustn’t go back to normal.

But not being normal also means being different.  Different, like being a woman in a male working environment, like not having English as your first language, like being a member of the LGBT+ community in a heterosexually orientated world, like being a wheelchair user in a world of steps and stairs.  Being reminded that you are different all the time is to feel excluded, like you are not wanted.  Never at home.

And not being normal is, pretty much, how mental illness or ‘mental disorder’ is defined. But normality has changed and so being abnormal has too. It took until the nineteen seventies for western psychiatry to decide that to be ‘homosexual’ was not a mental illness.

The diagnosis of mental illness is different.  There is no objective test, as there is for say, polio or meningitis.  The presence of mental illness is identified by reference to a manual of classification.

This is difficult so please stay with me!

I quote from the International Classification of Diseases, ‘The phenomena used to diagnose schizophrenia include thought echo; thought insertion or withdrawal; thought broadcasting; delusional perception and delusions of control; influence or passivity; hallucinatory voices commenting or discussing the patient in the third person; thought disorders and negative symptoms.’  

The doctor will make a diagnosis based on their interpretation of your symptoms.  You could have several people with different sets of symptoms but the same diagnosis.  Then another psychiatrist makes a different diagnosis.  This happens a lot.

The treatment is anti-psychotic medication, which has serious side effects.  Some additional observations here.  One from a clinical psychologist, who said that knowing somebody’s diagnosis is about as useful as knowing their star sign.  

Another writer, who has extensively researched anti-psychotic medication, suggests that you will get tardive dyskinesia, which is a bit like parkinson’s disease if you take anti-psychotics long term and that you are better off living with the psychosis than taking the medication.  Sometimes I can’t tell if the behaviour of the person I am working with is caused by the illness or the medication.

I have endless respect for my psychiatrist colleagues.  We can discuss treatment and plans.  They bring their perspective and I bring mine.  We get input from SALT and OT and nurses and psychology.

The treatment of mental illness is problematic because what is needed is time and space and that’s what we don’t have. The approach is driven by necessity, usually a crisis.  We always seem to be firefighting.

The speed of life increases, social pressures increase and mental illness goes up too. We don’t have the resources or, as far as I can fathom, the will to sort out some of the social problems that contribute to mental disorder.  

In a very large nutshell, this is how mental disorder works.  It’s called the biopsychosocial model.

The biological factors are your genes, brain chemistry, immune response, environmental toxins and soforth

Psychological factors are attitudes and beliefs, learning and memory, coping and emotional skills.

Social factors are work, education, poverty, things like that

Each of us has strengths and weaknesses in these areas and different tolerance levels.  

Some people cope with working and parenting and exercising and not smoking or drinking and burning the candle at both ends and they cruise their way through life.

Some people don’t.  Some people work hard and look after family and they do this for years and then suddenly it comes crashing down.

Some people experience poor mental health from an early age, the opportunities diminish, the treatment takes its toll.  There are combinations of all the above, as many as you can think of.  

Since the latter part of the twentieth century there has been a move away from specialist provision like day care and long stay hospitals and much more of a move towards looking after people in their own homes.   Sadly, we have now lost the concept of asylum.  The huge Victorian hospitals with their acres of parkland have been replaced by pokey little units commissioned and designed by people who never imagined being looked after in one themselves

As in other health services there has been a move to help people to manage their own support and treatment. The focus is on developing insight and living with the condition.  Attitudes to mental illness are more positive than they were last century but people with mental health problems still experience significant discrimination and prejudice.

 Back to normality.  In 1983, 66% of the population describes themselves as Christian.  To be Christian in the UK was to be normal.    In 2018, 38% of the population described themselves as Christian and 12% of these Anglican.  

When I left school in 1983, it was nearly normal to be an Anglican. Nowadays, it’s not normal at all! Brothers and sisters you are beautifully equipped to take this forward.  You are kind and you are abnormal.

 What do we have to do?  We have to be kind to ourselves and to other people.  The covid virus has been awful for lots of people.  It has been incredibly stressful for health and social care workers.  It has been incredibly stressful for people who have been forced into isolation. There has been an increase in domestic violence.  Who knows how much people are drinking.  Non accidental injuries to children have increased.  Services for homeless people, housing and benefits advice, drop ins closed. There is going to be a backlash. We were going to be clearing up for a long time and things won’t be the same.

Let’s be kind.  Let’s be good Samaritans.  The Mental Health Foundation has produced some lovely resources.  There is no point in listing it all here.  Get on their website.  Share it electronically.  You’re all internet savvy else you wouldn’t be here.  It would be great if you could print some of this stuff off and share it safely with friends who are not on line.  

There are so many suggestions but I think we should be getting on the phone to our friends and families.  There are people I haven’t spoken to for soooo long.  Get on the phone.  Talk to people.  Pray with them.  When I have a minute I’m going to write a letter.  I’d love to get a letter with a stamp and ink and everything.

My suspicion is that we are good at being kind to other people but not so good at being kind to ourselves.  Make some me time.  I know that it goes against the grain for many people.  Take time just to be silent and pray for just a few minutes during the day. Do things you enjoy.  Do something different, change your routine, just to see what it feels like.

Relax and reflect on how you’re feeling and how your day or week has been.

Pray and meditate.

Turn off from your social media channels for a day (or even a week).

Stop watching the news (although it is ok to have ‘Today’ on when Bishop Guli does ‘Thought for the Day’).

Treat yourself to something small, such as buying or planting some flowers. 

Spend some time in nature – pray outside.

And check how you are feeling.  Get in touch with the doctor if you need to.  Talk it through with a friend or call the helpline 0808 800 3302

 Moving forward, the church is equipped to support people who have mental health problems.  We have space, we have tea and we have compassion in abundance.   I would really like you to go and think about how the church can help to support people to stay out of hospital and to get them out more quickly.

There is evidence indicating that the opportunity to practice your faith and contact your faith community is central to recovery and good mental health.  We need to be talking to our local mental health trust to see what is needed. There are beacons of good practice and so we need to ensure that we know what’s going on in our locality so’s not to replicate or dilute good stuff that’s going on.

We need to think about how we welcome people who may be experiencing poor mental health when they come to church.  Are we welcoming? Are we overbearing?  Is there a message about mental health coming from the pulpit?  In intercessions?  Perhaps you could offer support to causes that would benefit wellbeing, showing our community that the church has many of the same concerns and putting our shoulders to the wheel.

 To conclude.  My wife and the cat and I have born isolation reasonably stoically.  It has been like being in a tiny little ark, locked into our bubble while we watch the world drowning in chaos.  When we went for a walk, I was struck by the number of rainbows; in windows, on the pavement.  And I remembered

“ Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

And when I hear the birdsong I think maybe God has been present all along but I just didn’t notice in the busyness of daily life.

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Eating in Vietnam | A Travel Companion

By Antonio Perez

I’ve stood at the entrance to a Vietnamese kitchen and been told that Vietnamese kitchens are cleaned but once a year. With a laugh I was then beckoned inside. I have, in my notebook, the name for a Vietnamese herbal medicine that will, and I’m quoting an authority here, “Line your gut so the bad bacteria doesn’t get absorbed but everything else flows out.” In other words, I’ve had to imagine the chemical workings of an anal luge while eating crispy, fried pork bits served at room temperature. I’ve consumed so much pureed fruit with condensed milk that I’ve needed to skip dinner, but then had dinner anyways. I’ve sipped ultra-sweet nước mía from plastic cups that crumple when touched, and I’ve done this while watching chickens with slit throats dance until death on a sidewalk. I’ve eaten banh mi from vendors on bicycles, street corners, trains, and boats. I’ve tasted pork pate so fatly decadent that it induced sleep.

I now know that Vietnam is a country where no street food is consumed without worry, no fart is without risk, and where you become grateful for the ubiquity of the spray hose bidet and the perpetual humidity that softens toilet paper into a quilt.

I’ve eaten seafood grilled in an alley, sipped broth made from clam juice, lemongrass, and water and declared it the finest thing I’ve ever tasted. I’ve argued, many times, about why dragon fruit is a waste of stomach space. I’ve grown corpulent eating soup, and become laxative from excess passion fruit juice. I’ve tickled live cuttle fish until they glitter then eaten them thirty minutes later. Underripe fruit, I’ve learned, can be used as a vegetable, and vegetables can be turned into dessert. A sweet smoothie that people like, apparently, is a mix of flavorless gelatin molded to resemble seaweed, overcooked legumes, and slightly sweet coconut milk. I’ve eaten more banana cultivars than I’ve ever eaten, and during this time learned how to peel a rambutan so the fruit stays propped in its hairy shell like a soft boiled egg in a cup.

I’ve worried constantly about the location and/or existence of refrigeration, and I’ve tried, many times, to catch flies that are the size of jumbo jelly beans. I’ve argued with toothless ladies about how many donuts I actually want (their tendency is to quadruple your original order and then charge triple), and have been in awe of frail looking women who heft magnum fruit loads on the fulcrum of their shoulders like nimble Olympians. I have wondered how it’s possible to end up with soup after ordering by pointing to a picture of a grilled pork dish.

I’ve learned that a meal in Vietnam displays the country’s poetry, poverty, and richness. It’s a country that has utilized seemingly all of its acreage to feed itself: it’s carved up its hills, flooded its flat plains, laid netting into its rivers and seas. I’ve seen the night sea’s horizon lined with boats alight with green, almost neon, to lure the squids and fish that will be the next day’s market offerings. I’ve walked under trees that are bountiful with the green, pearl rounds of coconuts and the jagged, tumorous shapes of durian and jack fruits. I’ve shared roads with roosters and chickens that strut, even in dense, urban places, picking at the refuse that’s everywhere. I’ve decided that nowhere is every aspect of a food’s production and consumption more on display: from its growth to its transportation, bartering and sale, preparation and ingestion, all are in front of you, block after block.

Before Vietnam, I met Leonie. She’s no gourmand and is content with simple dishes. Nutella on toast is her favorite breakfast food. That or muesli. Or pancakes. She has a mild obsession with Cadbury’s “Crunchie” chocolate, which is unique to Australia and New Zealand as far as I know. It’s milk chocolate mixed with solid  lumps of cavity-creating honeycomb toffee. Kiwis call it “Hokey Pokey.” That I wanted my focus in Vietnam to be almost entirely food related might have come as a shock to her considering how we met.

Photo by Hiep Nguyen on Unsplash

Flashback to Raglan, New Zealand.

I sat at a communal dining table. Sitting across from me was a young looking blonde girl. Applying the vaguest of recollections here, she ate a meat and potato dish. My dinner consisted of two smashed avocados with salt. I know because she later admitted judging me for it. She’d arrived in Raglan, alone, earlier that day. She was the older sister to a rather tall specimen of a German girl who I’d seen lurking in the hostel library for a few days. This younger sister didn’t say much of anything to anyone, just looked like a bit of an overgrown elementary school drop out, equally shy in conversation, who haunted dark rooms. Leonie, personality wise at least, was the opposite. Physically she was splendidly blonde, daringly pretty, a more realistic St. Paulie’s girl with a perpetually youthful face. She was uncomplaining and possessed a cheerfulness evident when she was being pulverized by waves while surfing or while performing gymnastics with a German boy on the hostel lawn.

Our bonding took place over the next few days. I learned she and her sister owned a car they planned to drive north to Auckland on the same date I needed to get there. I guaranteed myself a seat through a mix of politicking the sister and bribing both of them with Cadbury. (I’ve written before about how friendships are made or broken over reliable transportation.) When Leonie dropped me off in Auckland, I said good bye and figured that was that. Two days later though, I was with the sisters again to explore the city, feeling a bit like a geriatric creeper since I was the eldest by seven years. The next day Leonie provided the necessary female opinion for some wardrobe additions, and when she dropped me off at Auckland’s international airport, I said good bye and figured that was that.

Of course, we ended up staying in touch.

It’s worth inserting an interlude to explain one unusual characteristic of the backpacking lifestyle. The one I’m referring to is the ease with which travelers end up pairing with other travelers, even ones they’ve just met. Backpacking condenses time. What would be months or years of courtship or bonding in the non-backpacking world compacts to hours or days. Part of this owes to the loneliness of solo travel. No matter how much a solo backpacker relishes the solitary road, for every affirming moment alone there is one when they wish they could turn to see someone sharing it with them. Many once in a lifetime experiences are shouldered by one’s lonesome, so there’s comfort knowing another person holds part of the experience as well. The remaining part owes to a backpacker’s transience. Beholden to no one, committed to nothing, backpackers can commit to any plan with ease. And, what’s more, backpackers commit. I’m thinking back to New York City, where people date or befriend by gerrymandering: hell no is the uptown boy that requires a three subway transfer to get to; fuck no is the DUMBO girl while you live Upper West; the girl in Hoboken doesn’t even warrant consideration. A plausible backpacker conversation is: “Hey, where are you? I’m going to Thailand next month, want to join?” “Cool! Doing Great Ocean Road atm, make it three weeks?” “Done. See you in Bangkok.” This is how backpackers find themselves in situations that an outsider would consider foolish, if not crazy. This is how I ended up traveling with a French girl who spoke no English, or wound up canoeing down a river with an eighteen year old Dutch guy.

Anyway, what I’m getting at is Leonie wanted one last trip before attending medical school, and I needed to leave Australia in order to apply for a visa. That’s how we ended up greeting each other with a hug outside Tan Son Nhat International Airport’s terminal. Mid-hug, the first thing I said was, “Did you leave your bag unattended?”

Photo by Jack Young on Unsplash

Most restaurants had closed by the time we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (calling it Saigon from here on out, since it’s shorter and that’s what it’s residents call it.) We wandered until we found an open place with patrons. The restaurant we settled on, like most, was both inside and outside. Vietnam businesses don’t necessarily have demarcations: the city—its citizenry, its traffic—simply spills into them, laces through their patios, stuffs their interiors. Two groups sat drinking the warm suds of near empty beer glasses, the plates of picked fish and chicken carcasses were nearby in stacks. We were the only foreigners and had a seat outside on petite chairs that were more like square step stools. We delighted in making the Dong to Euro/USD conversion to determine we’d spent 80 cents a piece for our Tiger beers. The pail of ice that our waitress brought went untouched; we stuck to sanitary considerations like this for about twelve more hours. Soon, no stall served food or ice questionable enough for us to refuse it.

Ordering failed. Our waitress was all giggles trying to communicate with us before calling someone whose English wasn’t much better to assist her. She delighted so much in our differentness that anything we said put her into stitches. This wound up happening a bit throughout the trip, but this particular waitress had such a giggling fit that she teetered from our table and stood at spying distance, laughing whenever we made eye contact with her.

We spent the next three days sightseeing. Saigon isn’t keen on air conditioning, so we kept cool ducking into one of the city’s innumerable cafes, plopping under a fan, and drinking dirt cheap fruit juice. The summer temperature and humidity combo is north of 90 F with humidity between 90-100%. Yet the city acts as an ice plunge in the way it arrests your consciousness and shocks your senses: all during a moment you smell kerosene, exhaust, cigarettes, butchered offal, anise, ginger, broth. The smells don’t amalgamate, they inherit their own locus, yet to experience them is to sense them simultaneously. Buildings are inward pushing propositions, hundreds of bundled telephone wires cut up the sky, scooters and cars utilize sidewalks as if they’re passing lanes. The city is a 3D animatronic, and at the end of each day you feel as if your still being alive is a providential gift. Yet the vibrancy is capable of stopping with a snap. When rain comes in—which it does daily and heavy—movement abates. Sidewalk walkers crouch under awnings and motorbike riders pull over and wait out the squall or else cover themselves with ponchos. The city isn’t quieted though, it’s overlaid with wet static. And food—cooking and eating—is everywhere.

It seemed to me that most storefronts, every corner, and every other sidewalk panel was dedicated to the preparation, sale, or consumption of food. There was no limit to what an enterprising Vietnamese cook could do with the limited space they had. A man with nothing save for a gas burner, stock pot, knife, and wood chopping block, prepared on his sidewalk corner a stew of intestines that he ladled into plastic to-go bags. A woman on a bicycle laden with jars filled with opaque liquids, jellies, and tapioca pearls picked from each to concoct a beverage for whatever patron had hailed her. Money in hand, she’d pedal off.

By day three I’d convinced Leonie to hire a food tour guide with me. She’s not a particularly picky eater, seafood is about the only thing she won’t touch, but she’ll grant an exception if there’s enough butter. She agreed, and this is how we came to meet Vu.

Vu is an economist turned professional Saigon foodie. After a job loss he bent a life long obsession with Vietnamese street food into a tour company that caters to tourists. If you’re reading this for travel advice, which I don’t know why you would, because this is mostly an echo chamber for myself, the company’s name is Saigon Street Eats.

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We spent the night on motorbike exploring labyrinthian complexes of back streets and alleys and sampling copious amounts of food: conch grilled then served in a downy butter sauce, scallops still on their scorching shells sprinkled with roasted peanuts and cooled with a splash of chili vinegar, pressed-to-order sugar cane juice with kumquat, bone-in poached chicken with rice noodles and slivered banana blossoms all tossed with a briny vinegar. The highlight was an alley seafood restaurant. Banquet seating extended into the street from separate rooms, each packed to the gills with drunk and chummy youths. Cooking was done in the street: an engineered cooking platform had on it six, round canisters stuffed with charcoal that seared the bits of cockle and crab laid on the grill tops above. By evening end I begged off Vu’s suggestion that we get banh mi to go.

I asked Vu whether I was crazy: whether most of Saigon’s stores and sidewalks were, in fact, utilized for food production. He chuckled. The food industry, he explained, is a rudimentary safety net. Since poverty is chronic, and Vietnam’s social security and welfare systems are too paltry to alleviate it, a person out of work generally has no other means of earning. The surest path towards meagre income is to buy a burner, portable gas canister, and some pots and dishes and start making meals. The success of these sort of endeavors has been dependent on two disparate realities: the first is the demographic and living changes that makes cooking for one’s self much rarer. Decades ago every age group and income level cooked. A woman’s worth, to some extent, depended on her cooking skills, and she couldn’t put a husband on lock without being able to prepare a fine meal for the suitor and his family. Then, with Vietnam’s mild economic growth, mainly in Saigon, came increases in real estate prices with small, barely tag-along wage hikes. Infrastructure and housing units lagged in keeping up with the city’s 2-5% a year population growth. People, especially younger people, were forced into cramped living situations, often sharing a bedroom with four or more people. Longer work hours and commute times became the norm. The result—less time cooking, more eating out. The second reality is Vietnam’s relationship with the ingredients that make the food. Freshness is paramount. The cornucopia of herbs and chilis put along side the most basic of pho dishes has never been inside a refrigerator. Even meat never drops in temperature after slaughter: at morning markets butchers hack into whole hog carcasses, the carved loins are left out on cutting boards or hung on iron hooks, and, when bought, tossed into plastic bags where they stay until cooked. The refrigerator itself is like a person non grata. Shopping then, by necessity, is a daily chore that people can’t meet.

“So you need to be careful when choosing a place to eat,” Vu explained. He stationed us in front of an older man seated at the helm of three iron woks. “You look at the work station to determine if it is clean, and you see how the man works to see whether he cooks his food fresh. That is why you see so much cooking out in the street, because Vietnamese people will not eat at a place where they do not think the food is being made fresh for them.” The man dipped the edge of his stir fry spoon into a container with oil and splashed a bit into each hot wok. He added batter, and as its edges crisped he whirled into its center a filling of mince and shrimps and mushrooms. When he folded each crepe looking thing into a half moon, he filled the newly half-vacant space with shrimps, onions, and mince that I realized would be the filling for the next set so he’d waste no time.

Sitting, Vu broke off a piece of the entree—in Vietnamese called banh xeo—and rolled it up in a leaf of lettuce after stuffing it with chilis and Thai basil. He dipped it in a rosy vinegar. “In my village we had food scarcity because of the Communist regime’s allotment practices, so we grew up on chili that was too hot because it warded off people who’d come to steal it from us. So I say my mother made us cry through her food because she put in so much chili. But that chili is the emotion of cooking. Vietnamese food must always have balance. There is bitterness, there is sourness, there is the pain from heat, but there is also sweet. This is the goal of Vietnamese food: to have all the emotions of life in one bite.”

Photo by Hiep Nguyen on Unsplash

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Eating in Vietnam | A Travel Companion

By Antonio Perez

I’ve stood at the entrance to a Vietnamese kitchen and been told that Vietnamese kitchens are cleaned but once a year. With a laugh I was then beckoned inside. I have, in my notebook, the name for a Vietnamese herbal medicine that will, and I’m quoting an authority here, “Line your gut so the bad bacteria doesn’t get absorbed but everything else flows out.” In other words, I’ve had to imagine the chemical workings of an anal luge while eating crispy, fried pork bits served at room temperature. I’ve consumed so much pureed fruit with condensed milk that I’ve needed to skip dinner, but then had dinner anyways. I’ve sipped ultra-sweet nước mía from plastic cups that crumple when touched, and I’ve done this while watching chickens with slit throats dance until death on a sidewalk. I’ve eaten banh mi from vendors on bicycles, street corners, trains, and boats. I’ve tasted pork pate so fatly decadent that it induced sleep.

I now know that Vietnam is a country where no street food is consumed without worry, no fart is without risk, and where you become grateful for the ubiquity of the spray hose bidet and the perpetual humidity that softens toilet paper into a quilt.

I’ve eaten seafood grilled in an alley, sipped broth made from clam juice, lemongrass, and water and declared it the finest thing I’ve ever tasted. I’ve argued, many times, about why dragon fruit is a waste of stomach space. I’ve grown corpulent eating soup, and become laxative from excess passion fruit juice. I’ve tickled live cuttle fish until they glitter then eaten them thirty minutes later. Underripe fruit, I’ve learned, can be used as a vegetable, and vegetables can be turned into dessert. A sweet smoothie that people like, apparently, is a mix of flavorless gelatin molded to resemble seaweed, overcooked legumes, and slightly sweet coconut milk. I’ve eaten more banana cultivars than I’ve ever eaten, and during this time learned how to peel a rambutan so the fruit stays propped in its hairy shell like a soft boiled egg in a cup.

I’ve worried constantly about the location and/or existence of refrigeration, and I’ve tried, many times, to catch flies that are the size of jumbo jelly beans. I’ve argued with toothless ladies about how many donuts I actually want (their tendency is to quadruple your original order and then charge triple), and have been in awe of frail looking women who heft magnum fruit loads on the fulcrum of their shoulders like nimble Olympians. I have wondered how it’s possible to end up with soup after ordering by pointing to a picture of a grilled pork dish.

I’ve learned that a meal in Vietnam displays the country’s poetry, poverty, and richness. It’s a country that has utilized seemingly all of its acreage to feed itself: it’s carved up its hills, flooded its flat plains, laid netting into its rivers and seas. I’ve seen the night sea’s horizon lined with boats alight with green, almost neon, to lure the squids and fish that will be the next day’s market offerings. I’ve walked under trees that are bountiful with the green, pearl rounds of coconuts and the jagged, tumorous shapes of durian and jack fruits. I’ve shared roads with roosters and chickens that strut, even in dense, urban places, picking at the refuse that’s everywhere. I’ve decided that nowhere is every aspect of a food’s production and consumption more on display: from its growth to its transportation, bartering and sale, preparation and ingestion, all are in front of you, block after block.

Before Vietnam, I met Leonie. She’s no gourmand and is content with simple dishes. Nutella on toast is her favorite breakfast food. That or muesli. Or pancakes. She has a mild obsession with Cadbury’s “Crunchie” chocolate, which is unique to Australia and New Zealand as far as I know. It’s milk chocolate mixed with solid  lumps of cavity-creating honeycomb toffee. Kiwis call it “Hokey Pokey.” That I wanted my focus in Vietnam to be almost entirely food related might have come as a shock to her considering how we met.

Photo by Hiep Nguyen on Unsplash

Flashback to Raglan, New Zealand.

I sat at a communal dining table. Sitting across from me was a young looking blonde girl. Applying the vaguest of recollections here, she ate a meat and potato dish. My dinner consisted of two smashed avocados with salt. I know because she later admitted judging me for it. She’d arrived in Raglan, alone, earlier that day. She was the older sister to a rather tall specimen of a German girl who I’d seen lurking in the hostel library for a few days. This younger sister didn’t say much of anything to anyone, just looked like a bit of an overgrown elementary school drop out, equally shy in conversation, who haunted dark rooms. Leonie, personality wise at least, was the opposite. Physically she was splendidly blonde, daringly pretty, a more realistic St. Paulie’s girl with a perpetually youthful face. She was uncomplaining and possessed a cheerfulness evident when she was being pulverized by waves while surfing or while performing gymnastics with a German boy on the hostel lawn.

Our bonding took place over the next few days. I learned she and her sister owned a car they planned to drive north to Auckland on the same date I needed to get there. I guaranteed myself a seat through a mix of politicking the sister and bribing both of them with Cadbury. (I’ve written before about how friendships are made or broken over reliable transportation.) When Leonie dropped me off in Auckland, I said good bye and figured that was that. Two days later though, I was with the sisters again to explore the city, feeling a bit like a geriatric creeper since I was the eldest by seven years. The next day Leonie provided the necessary female opinion for some wardrobe additions, and when she dropped me off at Auckland’s international airport, I said good bye and figured that was that.

Of course, we ended up staying in touch.

It’s worth inserting an interlude to explain one unusual characteristic of the backpacking lifestyle. The one I’m referring to is the ease with which travelers end up pairing with other travelers, even ones they’ve just met. Backpacking condenses time. What would be months or years of courtship or bonding in the non-backpacking world compacts to hours or days. Part of this owes to the loneliness of solo travel. No matter how much a solo backpacker relishes the solitary road, for every affirming moment alone there is one when they wish they could turn to see someone sharing it with them. Many once in a lifetime experiences are shouldered by one’s lonesome, so there’s comfort knowing another person holds part of the experience as well. The remaining part owes to a backpacker’s transience. Beholden to no one, committed to nothing, backpackers can commit to any plan with ease. And, what’s more, backpackers commit. I’m thinking back to New York City, where people date or befriend by gerrymandering: hell no is the uptown boy that requires a three subway transfer to get to; fuck no is the DUMBO girl while you live Upper West; the girl in Hoboken doesn’t even warrant consideration. A plausible backpacker conversation is: “Hey, where are you? I’m going to Thailand next month, want to join?” “Cool! Doing Great Ocean Road atm, make it three weeks?” “Done. See you in Bangkok.” This is how backpackers find themselves in situations that an outsider would consider foolish, if not crazy. This is how I ended up traveling with a French girl who spoke no English, or wound up canoeing down a river with an eighteen year old Dutch guy.

Anyway, what I’m getting at is Leonie wanted one last trip before attending medical school, and I needed to leave Australia in order to apply for a visa. That’s how we ended up greeting each other with a hug outside Tan Son Nhat International Airport’s terminal. Mid-hug, the first thing I said was, “Did you leave your bag unattended?”

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Most restaurants had closed by the time we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (calling it Saigon from here on out, since it’s shorter and that’s what it’s residents call it.) We wandered until we found an open place with patrons. The restaurant we settled on, like most, was both inside and outside. Vietnam businesses don’t necessarily have demarcations: the city—its citizenry, its traffic—simply spills into them, laces through their patios, stuffs their interiors. Two groups sat drinking the warm suds of near empty beer glasses, the plates of picked fish and chicken carcasses were nearby in stacks. We were the only foreigners and had a seat outside on petite chairs that were more like square step stools. We delighted in making the Dong to Euro/USD conversion to determine we’d spent 80 cents a piece for our Tiger beers. The pail of ice that our waitress brought went untouched; we stuck to sanitary considerations like this for about twelve more hours. Soon, no stall served food or ice questionable enough for us to refuse it.

Ordering failed. Our waitress was all giggles trying to communicate with us before calling someone whose English wasn’t much better to assist her. She delighted so much in our differentness that anything we said put her into stitches. This wound up happening a bit throughout the trip, but this particular waitress had such a giggling fit that she teetered from our table and stood at spying distance, laughing whenever we made eye contact with her.

We spent the next three days sightseeing. Saigon isn’t keen on air conditioning, so we kept cool ducking into one of the city’s innumerable cafes, plopping under a fan, and drinking dirt cheap fruit juice. The summer temperature and humidity combo is north of 90 F with humidity between 90-100%. Yet the city acts as an ice plunge in the way it arrests your consciousness and shocks your senses: all during a moment you smell kerosene, exhaust, cigarettes, butchered offal, anise, ginger, broth. The smells don’t amalgamate, they inherit their own locus, yet to experience them is to sense them simultaneously. Buildings are inward pushing propositions, hundreds of bundled telephone wires cut up the sky, scooters and cars utilize sidewalks as if they’re passing lanes. The city is a 3D animatronic, and at the end of each day you feel as if your still being alive is a providential gift. Yet the vibrancy is capable of stopping with a snap. When rain comes in—which it does daily and heavy—movement abates. Sidewalk walkers crouch under awnings and motorbike riders pull over and wait out the squall or else cover themselves with ponchos. The city isn’t quieted though, it’s overlaid with wet static. And food—cooking and eating—is everywhere.

It seemed to me that most storefronts, every corner, and every other sidewalk panel was dedicated to the preparation, sale, or consumption of food. There was no limit to what an enterprising Vietnamese cook could do with the limited space they had. A man with nothing save for a gas burner, stock pot, knife, and wood chopping block, prepared on his sidewalk corner a stew of intestines that he ladled into plastic to-go bags. A woman on a bicycle laden with jars filled with opaque liquids, jellies, and tapioca pearls picked from each to concoct a beverage for whatever patron had hailed her. Money in hand, she’d pedal off.

By day three I’d convinced Leonie to hire a food tour guide with me. She’s not a particularly picky eater, seafood is about the only thing she won’t touch, but she’ll grant an exception if there’s enough butter. She agreed, and this is how we came to meet Vu.

Vu is an economist turned professional Saigon foodie. After a job loss he bent a life long obsession with Vietnamese street food into a tour company that caters to tourists. If you’re reading this for travel advice, which I don’t know why you would, because this is mostly an echo chamber for myself, the company’s name is Saigon Street Eats.

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We spent the night on motorbike exploring labyrinthian complexes of back streets and alleys and sampling copious amounts of food: conch grilled then served in a downy butter sauce, scallops still on their scorching shells sprinkled with roasted peanuts and cooled with a splash of chili vinegar, pressed-to-order sugar cane juice with kumquat, bone-in poached chicken with rice noodles and slivered banana blossoms all tossed with a briny vinegar. The highlight was an alley seafood restaurant. Banquet seating extended into the street from separate rooms, each packed to the gills with drunk and chummy youths. Cooking was done in the street: an engineered cooking platform had on it six, round canisters stuffed with charcoal that seared the bits of cockle and crab laid on the grill tops above. By evening end I begged off Vu’s suggestion that we get banh mi to go.

I asked Vu whether I was crazy: whether most of Saigon’s stores and sidewalks were, in fact, utilized for food production. He chuckled. The food industry, he explained, is a rudimentary safety net. Since poverty is chronic, and Vietnam’s social security and welfare systems are too paltry to alleviate it, a person out of work generally has no other means of earning. The surest path towards meagre income is to buy a burner, portable gas canister, and some pots and dishes and start making meals. The success of these sort of endeavors has been dependent on two disparate realities: the first is the demographic and living changes that makes cooking for one’s self much rarer. Decades ago every age group and income level cooked. A woman’s worth, to some extent, depended on her cooking skills, and she couldn’t put a husband on lock without being able to prepare a fine meal for the suitor and his family. Then, with Vietnam’s mild economic growth, mainly in Saigon, came increases in real estate prices with small, barely tag-along wage hikes. Infrastructure and housing units lagged in keeping up with the city’s 2-5% a year population growth. People, especially younger people, were forced into cramped living situations, often sharing a bedroom with four or more people. Longer work hours and commute times became the norm. The result—less time cooking, more eating out. The second reality is Vietnam’s relationship with the ingredients that make the food. Freshness is paramount. The cornucopia of herbs and chilis put along side the most basic of pho dishes has never been inside a refrigerator. Even meat never drops in temperature after slaughter: at morning markets butchers hack into whole hog carcasses, the carved loins are left out on cutting boards or hung on iron hooks, and, when bought, tossed into plastic bags where they stay until cooked. The refrigerator itself is like a person non grata. Shopping then, by necessity, is a daily chore that people can’t meet.

“So you need to be careful when choosing a place to eat,” Vu explained. He stationed us in front of an older man seated at the helm of three iron woks. “You look at the work station to determine if it is clean, and you see how the man works to see whether he cooks his food fresh. That is why you see so much cooking out in the street, because Vietnamese people will not eat at a place where they do not think the food is being made fresh for them.” The man dipped the edge of his stir fry spoon into a container with oil and splashed a bit into each hot wok. He added batter, and as its edges crisped he whirled into its center a filling of mince and shrimps and mushrooms. When he folded each crepe looking thing into a half moon, he filled the newly half-vacant space with shrimps, onions, and mince that I realized would be the filling for the next set so he’d waste no time.

Sitting, Vu broke off a piece of the entree—in Vietnamese called banh xeo—and rolled it up in a leaf of lettuce after stuffing it with chilis and Thai basil. He dipped it in a rosy vinegar. “In my village we had food scarcity because of the Communist regime’s allotment practices, so we grew up on chili that was too hot because it warded off people who’d come to steal it from us. So I say my mother made us cry through her food because she put in so much chili. But that chili is the emotion of cooking. Vietnamese food must always have balance. There is bitterness, there is sourness, there is the pain from heat, but there is also sweet. This is the goal of Vietnamese food: to have all the emotions of life in one bite.”

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Okay I love this but. But but. MAVERICK?! The man just watched his best friend, his only family, die in an accident he feels responsible for, hung onto his body in the water for who knows how long, got zero time to process then had to go into combat. Where his comrades explicitly didn’t trust him, but were fighting for their lives and desperately needed him. Hollywood & Wolfman had to eject & he briefly lost control of his aircraft in way-too-close-to-home reminders of the very recent, very traumatic accident he was in. Oh, and then he killed three people to save the lives of the men who were up with him when that accident happened. Once the adrenaline wears off, that man is a broken mess. If Iceman & Slider need medicinal whiskey, Maverick sure as hell needs a drink too.

(If they get checked out separately in sickbay and separately prescribed their whiskey, imagine a drunk Maverick feeling like he should’ve been the one to die in the accident instead of Goose, coming back to their bunks to find a drunk Ice & Slider discussing if Maverick should’ve even bothered to save their lives?? Good God. )

Anyway thank you I am going to rotate this idea in my brain for a while

Got curious about rules on alcohol on aircraft carriers after listening to an episode of the F-14 Tomcast podcast and discovered that there was technically a prohibition on board the carriers (until 2014) but that there were exceptions for “medicinal purposes such as when a crew is shaken by an accident or a pilot is suffering from the pressure of a demanding mission.”

And now I just need Iceman and Slider starting to go into a form of shock that just had them shutting down and then being issued “medicinal” alcohol after the USS Layton mission, and Maverick and Merlin and Wolfman and Hollywood come into their shared bunk room and finding them sitting on the floor sharing a bottle of whiskey and Slider is dying laughing his fucking ass off and Iceman is giggling cause they had FIVE MiGs on their ass!!! F I V E!!!! No way they thought they’d survive. Like they’d have all kinds of thoughts like what if that was supposed to be karma for Goose? What if they were at fault for his death? And maybe Maverick should have left them to die?

See Hollywood and Wolfman weren’t expecting it, getting shot down. Typically the procedure was that aircraft of both sides would essentially be herded or merely followed back towards their side like just sitting their scoping out the opposing military technology the whole time but surprise they’d been shot down. There’s a little shock but like, they never had time to process it.

Iceman and Slider? They sat with FIVE MiGs on their ass for a time, questioning if they’re going to get obliterated to pieces or if they were just being toyed with and played with until the MiGs get bored. Like fuck man I’d need a drink too! I’d be thinking all kinds of self-worthless and introspective thoughts and shit like my mental state would have been rocked.