Originally Posted by aklim

But how do you know it can really work and cure the problem? Is masking the pain a good idea? It is after you know the root cause. Not before you do otherwise you might never find the root cause and it can and will come back to bite you. I can't remember what a good friend of mine took but it was some herbal thingy that cured a very mild rectal bleed. FFW to a year and a half later, it came back and he has lost half his colon and could have died. Might be better off if he had found the root cause of the bleeding instead of just fixing it.

Never met anyone that could and do it consistently. So is it simply that they have a higher threshold? Don't know.