RE: [Hornlist] Ear Problems
Interesting... I assume it's pretty similar in concept to the garlic oil since they are in the same family. I have to admit, I went and tried the garlic oil trick last night. (I'm in dire emergency here - Sunday morning I woke up with a raging ear infection after not having had one for more than 10 years! It turns out, I'm down in Daytona to record the AHQ and I couldn't bear the feeling of headphones on my head with this infection!) The great news is, the garlic oil worked wonderfully! It smells QUITE pungent, but it works. I put a capsules worth in my ear last night before I slept and woke up with a MUCH better feeling! The only problem now is that I woke up with this horrible hankering for Pizza or Baked Ziti! That doesn't make for a good breakfast!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Milton Kicklighter Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:28 AM To: The Horn List Subject: [Hornlist] Ear Problems Hi All, I just thought I would add a little old fashioned remedies to the ear thing. When I was quite young I used to have ear infections all the time. My mother would take the juice of a hot onion strong onion warm it up and put a couple of drops in my ear. I would have almost instant relief. I was wondering if anyone else out there had the same experience, and for some of you scientist types, I was wondering if you had any thought as to why this might have helped. Would it have been the enzymes in the onion juice or some such thing??? And again thanks to all for your encouragement concerning my upcoming surgery. Milton Milton Kicklighter 4th horn Buffalo Phil Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/jeremy%40sublymerecords.c om No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.8/941 - Release Date: 8/7/2007 4:06 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.8/941 - Release Date: 8/7/2007 4:06 PM ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
RE: [Hornlist] Ear Problems
Hi Jeremy, and All at the AHQ I hope all of you are enjoying the AHQ. Please give my regards to my student and friend Amy Early and to the guys in the Quartet. Especially to Heather. She keeps them straight. And everyone, have a little wine for me. Tell her I expect her to begin work on the Strauss 1 when she returns. :) Try the onion juice thing if the ear ache comes back. Get the real thing though. And oh yes, tell Amy and others that might have been or are from Buffalo and all Italian food lovers: Last night I had the most wonderful meal at Franks Little Italy. Amy will explain it to you. :) I will be eating left overs for two days. --- Jeremy Cucco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting... I assume it's pretty similar in concept to the garlic oil since they are in the same family. I have to admit, I went and tried the garlic oil trick last night. (I'm in dire emergency here - Sunday morning I woke up with a raging ear infection after not having had one for more than 10 years! It turns out, I'm down in Daytona to record the AHQ and I couldn't bear the feeling of headphones on my head with this infection!) The great news is, the garlic oil worked wonderfully! It smells QUITE pungent, but it works. I put a capsules worth in my ear last night before I slept and woke up with a MUCH better feeling! The only problem now is that I woke up with this horrible hankering for Pizza or Baked Ziti! That doesn't make for a good breakfast!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Milton Kicklighter Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:28 AM To: The Horn List Subject: [Hornlist] Ear Problems Hi All, I just thought I would add a little old fashioned remedies to the ear thing. When I was quite young I used to have ear infections all the time. My mother would take the juice of a hot onion strong onion warm it up and put a couple of drops in my ear. I would have almost instant relief. I was wondering if anyone else out there had the same experience, and for some of you scientist types, I was wondering if you had any thought as to why this might have helped. Would it have been the enzymes in the onion juice or some such thing??? And again thanks to all for your encouragement concerning my upcoming surgery. Milton Milton Kicklighter 4th horn Buffalo Phil Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/jeremy%40sublymerecords.c om No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.8/941 - Release Date: 8/7/2007 4:06 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.8/941 - Release Date: 8/7/2007 4:06 PM ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/kicklighgter%40yahoo.com Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Hornlist] Ear Problems
On Aug 8, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Milton Kicklighter wrote:
Hi All,
I just thought I would add a little old fashioned remedies to the
ear
thing.
When I was quite young I used to have ear infections all the time. My
mother would take the juice of a hot onion strong onion
warm it up
and put a couple of drops in my ear. I would have almost instant
relief.
I was wondering if anyone else out there had the same experience,
and for
some of you scientist types, I was wondering if you had any thought
as to
why this might have helped. Would it have been the enzymes in the
onion
juice or some such thing???
At the risk of taking this discussion even farther afield from the
horn world, I'll bite. I'm a professional research biologist.
Here are some hypotheses that could be tested:
1. Any warm liquid will provide relief.
2. Any warm oil will provide relief.
3. A warm liquid with the same physical properties of warm onion
juice (pH {acidity}, viscosity {ability to flow}, mixture of oil +
water, osmolarity {salt concentration}, etc.) will provide relief.
4. There is some specific ingredient in onions (or garlic) that
provides relief.
Here's how you do the experiment. When you have an ear infection
(ideally in both ears so that you have a control), have a friend make
two preparations: one of, say warm saline (dissolve about 1/4 tsp
table salt in a half-cup of water, or for our metric friends, about 1
gm salt into 100 ml water), and another of warm onion juice. Without
them telling you which is which (this is important!), have them apply
a different solution to each ear. Which ear feels better? Then you
can ask them which solution went into each ear.
You can do the same with, say, garlic oil and some other control
solution, for example, some other type of oil.
The reason you shouldn't know which solution goes into each of your
ears is due to the placebo effect, which is that if you tell somebody
that a substance will have a specific effect, then for a very large
percentage of the population, that person will experience that effect.
If it turns out that it is all about onions or garlic, then you would
try dividing the solution into it its constituent components to
figure out the active ingredient.
It is all about doing the correct experiment!
Until somebody shows me the data from a proper, controlled
experiments, I view all claims for therapeutic value with great
skepticism, though of course I'm always willing to do the experiment.
Anyway, if anybody wants to continue this discussion, I suggest that
we do so off-list. (I'm happy to, and would be *really* intrigued
if some of you with chronic ear infections were to do some
experiments.)
OK, to bring this back to horn issues: as long as we are talking
about experimental design, I'm delighted to hear about the
experiments where the investigators actually *observed* the throats
of wind players in action. *Very* cool!
Carlisle
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