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Interviewer Have you ever used alternative medicine?
Speaker 1 Yes.
InterviewerWhat did you use?
Speaker 1 Acupuncture.
InterviewerAnd did it work?
Speaker 1 Well, it did actually. I had a terrible lime of, 1 lost my sense of taste and smell...
Interviewer Wow!
Speaker 1 ...which started off with a cold and then 1 completely lost my sense of taste and smell for about three or four months, and it was very debilitating, and it was really quite frightening.
Interviewer I'm sure.
Speaker 1 You suddenly realize that there is no point in eating at all because it's just fodder, and all the beauty of life kind of goes, it's an extraordinary thing of not having one of your senses. And somebody recommended to me acupuncture, and 1 went along and I said, 'Do you think you can do anything about it?' and she said, 'Yes, 1 think I can.' She said, 'So, here's a rose', which was in her room.
InterviewerRight...
Speaker 1.. and she said, Put your nose into it and tell me what you can smell.' I put my nose into it and I couldn't smell a thing at all, absolutely nothing at all. And she laid me down and half an hour of needles later, 1 got up and she said, 'I lave a smell of the rose again,' and 1 put my nose into it and there was this faint, faint odour of rose, which was quite the most beautiful thing I've ever smelt in my entire life.
Interviewer It came straight away then?
Speaker 1 No, well, over the course of the next two weeks, very, very slowly it came back. I was walking down Old Compton Street and a woman walked past and I went 'Ooh perfume', and I literally turned and followed her, if she'd seen me she would have thought I was rather weird because I was sort of, had my nose into her hair like that, so, and it all came back.
InterviewerWow!
Speaker 2 Ever since my children were born, well, even before my children were born, which is a very very long time ago now, we've used alternative medicine, or I like lo call it complementary medicine, we use homeopathy. And none of my children ever had an antibiotic when they were growing up, and I think that's quite a good claim, actually. They have used them since they've been adult, for various things because of work and having to get their voices back, but apart from that no antibiotics, and I don't think I've had one in the last thirty-odd years.
Interviewer Kate, have you ever taken alternative medicine?
Speaker 3 Well, the time I remember was when my second child, childbirth of my second, because my first was pretty dramatic experience, so I thought I'd go and find out if 1 could make it easier, so I went to a homeopath who gave me a lot of pills, and said that when contractions started I should take one and then, you know, an hour later take another one, and an hour later take two, but within half an hour, I'd taken all three bottles and was still in agony.
Interviewer No.
Speaker 3 Yeah.
Interviewer Not having not done anything?
Speaker 3 No.
InterviewerSo did you call the person? 'These aren't working!'
Speaker 3 No, 1 never did, but I wouldn't recommend homeopathy for childbirth.
InterviewerNo, good conclusion.
InterviewerSo Adam what's your take on alternative medicine, do you have any experience?
Speaker 4 One, just one. and I was taking a very long flight from London to Vancouver and I don't like flying, but I don't take anything for that, hut when I got there 1 was only there for a very few days and I wanted to enjoy my waking hours, and the jet lag was crazy so I bought some herbal sleeping pills.
Interviewer Oh. right.
Speaker 4 So 1 didn't want to use really heavy, real sleeping pills, I've never used those, so I went to buy some herbal sleeping pills and put them in my bag and then I got there and I look at the package and it says, "lake eight half an hour before bedtime,' so 1 thought that was quite a lot, but that's what it said, so I took eight, but it was a bit like having a lot of grass in my mouth, it was like swallowing a lot of grass before bed and then it made me a little windy, so 1 was like burping up, like a lot of grass and I was burping so I wasn't sleeping, so I wasn't really convinced about them.
InterviewerSo a great night's sleep.
Speaker 4 It was wonderful. A lot of grass.