Hail fellow travelers.  I am new here and was wondering if any one could help
me.  I need information concerning the use and preperation of Rhnocerous horn
in Chinese medicine.  If any one knows of any good books or articles please
respond here or through E-mail
                                        Thanx,
                                          Variable

38 responses total.

Isn't rhino horn illegal?
Or is this just for perssonal edification/research?

Two things I know about rhino horn:

        (1)  It's supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
        (2)  It's very very very very very illegal.

That's about all I need to know.  What would I use an
aphrodisiac for, even a legal one?  >8)

most aphrodisiacs seem to be: physically like the phallus they try to enhance
(ginseng, narwall horn, rhino horn, etc.), mildly psychotropic herbs which
increase sensation/awareness or are relaxing (ganja, damiana, etc.) or FOOD! it
is really amazing what a turn-on it is to know you aren't going to starve that
week... especially if the food is slightly suggestive (oysters, rhubarb, but
where the hell did POTATOs get in here?!).

Yeah, there's one aphrodisiac I definitely want to stay away
from - I'm allergic to ganja.

Hmm, this could be a whole new item...  "People Who Are Allergic
to Aphrodisiacs, on the next Oprah."

the only ones I have any use for  are the food ones, and I'm not hugry enough,
on a general basis, for them to work... Oh well- can't say as I have any
problem in that area, either.

Actually this is not for personal usage (spiritually castrated, don't
you know).  I am just trying to see if anyone might have any idea how 
I might find out just how it is supposed to work or even how
it is to be prepared.  Personal research for a paper.  I rpobably won't
be able to change back unitl MON or Tues.
                                Thanx
                                  Variable

re: #6- "I probably won't be able to change back until MOn. or Tues."?  Explain
please?  Is this in reference to the first line of your reply, or something
else?

Using any product gotten by such ill means can't be good!
There are similar tales about Deer horn in China. This you 
can guy in many food stores. 
As for an aphrodisiac...I allways thought good music, food, and drink
and some good conversation allways works...

nothing more attractive than being appreciated...

actually the line change back should have read check back, sorry about the 
typing.  Anyway the best aphrodesiac is a good seafood dinner, candles
and an all out arguement. (At least that works for some of us)

i have heard a little of the preperation of illegal aphrodisiacs in a 
couple of my natural resource classes.  all i can remember about rhino horn is
that it is powdered first.  i'll see if i can get some more specific info
from my conservation biology prof.  i don't know how sucessful i'll be.

re: #10, line 1- oh, ok, that makes more sense.  I'm still curious, though,
what you meant by "spiritually castrated"- is this a side effect of your magic
in  general, a particular piece of work, something unrelated that happened, or
the season?  If I'm prying, please tell me so and I'll shut right up.  I'm just
very interested in the different ways people's personal magic can manifest. 
For me, the people with whom I'm the most magically compatible are EXTREMELY
attractive, but it is generally unwise to do anything about that unless the
tension becomes unbearable, because it's that tension that makes the
psychic/magical bond work the best.  Gets annoying at times.

um, kami, is it just me, or is that last response a little cut up and
butchered?  I can't make heard nor tail of it.

I think I need to cut off a few of my lines a bit sooner, but it mostly
looks ok to me on second reading.  Sorry if it's confusing. Mostly talking
person who started this item, variable I believe. Want me to try again?

I really didn't understand the firts line or so, but the rest made perfect 
sense to me, kami.  

I got it this time, but last time I logged on, when I made the post, I
tried to read it several times, even had grex reprint it several times,
and it came out with a bunch chopped out of the middle.  Oh well.  I
hereby withdraw that last post, with humblest apologies to kami.  :)

"Spiritually Castrated" referrs to the fact that about a year ago
I had my romantic spirit ripped out of its chrsalis and thrown
into the coldness of what some people referr to reality.  I just never 
bothered to put it back.  I am capable of the physical act but not 
the emotion.

Yes, I had my "romantic spirit" ripped out about a decade or so.
Maybe it's deeply cynical of me, but I tend to think that the
physical and the spiritual are complementary, but are perhaps
best kept separate.  Then perhaps you can be more understanding
of the human animal.  Romance is fine, but if you believe in it too
much, you set yourself up for considerable heartache.  I'm
reminded of a quote (the author escapes me) of "...taking part in
the universal illusion without becoming its dupe."

(Yes, add "cynic" to my list of titles, among which are "devil's
advocate" and some that are totally unprintable.)

oh shut up!  you're shaking my cucoon.  do let me dream in peace as I drift 
blissfully toward the abyss, won't you?  you folks are SO depressing!

Wow!  what a catty reply.  sorry.  I'll probably appologize and try to be of
some actual use here later.

Ditto the first part of 19.  (Actually, sometimes I think I can see the
abyss, but I don't think there is anything to do about it...)

Colours and ducks.... oh definitely.
Surely no mention of a dark ceiling without a star... Nope.  no mention
here of that at all.

If there aren't any stars, I'll bloody well MAKE some!

And kami said, "Let there be stars!"  And there were stars.

You should see my girlfriends ceiling...the last occupant
of the room must have had a fetish for glow-in-the-dark stars!!!

So what are you doing looking at your girlfriend's ceiling?
Hmmmmm?

I'll bet he was...doing sit ups...
Those stars and moons and stuff are the BEST! Good stuff.
It can get annoying though.

actually at the time I was waiting for her to finish her HW and
falling asleep on her bed...'course how I know they glow-in-the-dark
is another matter entirely... <VBEG>

stars, let's paint the ceiling in stars...

/rotfl
I think we need new carpeting,myself.  :-)

Actually, the last time I was in a room with glow-in-the-dark
stars on the ceiling, I went crazy trying to identify constellations,
and bitching about the idiot who'd put them there and how they had no
idea what the night sky reall looked like.

That says a lot about me, really.

and the springs sqeak. :*)'
robh--sigh

this is getting silly.  what was the topic, anyway?

        It started with Rhino horn ( really I don't have any I am just
doing a paper), but while we are on the subject I am gload to know
that there are aother people in the world who do have glow in the dark stars
on their bedroom ceiling.  My niece and I put them up in my room.  I'll
admit I only got one constellation right, the Big Dipper (From Alaska
don'tyaknow)

Anybody see the Fox Trot a week or so back?  Where the two geek kids
(I mean that in the nicest way, since I was a geek too) were painting 
stars on the ceiling according to precise star maps?

Yeah, I'm convinced that Jason Fox is a direct copy of what I was
like at ten years ol.d

Rob...why am I not surprised???!!!!

At one point, before i changed rooms, I had stars on my ceiling light...

Hail again, Variable here to ask for information.
Does anyone know any good books about Zoroastorism?

let me snoop around and I'll get back to ya.

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