I thought I posted this on the gardenweb forum. Now it's houzz? Had to sign up for a new user name. Anyway soo - you can get the Naked Gardener Compost or Debco Premium Potting Mix from Masters (closing soon). Course Perlite is from The Perlite & Vermiculite Factory Myaree (much cheaper than anywhere else). Sand I got from a bulk landscape place (lawn mix) but you can get 10 or 20kg bags of builders sand at Bunnings. Zeochlor is in the pool section at Bunnings. Rock Dust I got from the manufacturer direct somewhere in Bibralake (called Natural PK) but I think but you can now get a similar product from Waldecks (in Myaree at least). Waldecks also sell bentonite clay. I still want to try the gritty mix but getting my hands on all the materials has proved very difficult when I tried last year. I found a Queensland company that makes course DE (for mopping up oil/chemicals) but they didn't have a distributor in Perth. Nobody I could find has pine bark in the right size - and even if they did I'd have to by a cement mixer and modify it with a fine wire to screen it. Honestly, if an agricultural company were to produce the gritty mix and sell it in bags I think they'd make bank - even considering how long it lasts.

I found this forum while searching google for a link between migraines and amalgam fillings. I think carey is right. I am 32 years old and I started suffering from migraines exactly 1 year ago. I have a migraine about once a week and they include a visual aura that completely blinds me for 45 minutes, extreme confusion, memory loss and weakness. Please note that I NEVER had this before and nothing has changed in my life. I eat very healthy and exercise 5 days a week. The only thing that did change exactly one year ago was that I got several amalgam fillings. eric_oh, I feel that you are giving bad advice. It may be expensive but the pain is worth it if I go back to what my life was like before these migraines. Looking at this from a logical standpoint the migraines are either being caused by something physically that changed with my body or from something being introduced from the environment. I have seen a neurologist and have had the MRIs and EEGs which came back negative. I have seen a ENT, everything checks out. My regular doctor thinks I am a hypo. Only thing left are these fillings I got a year ago, exactly at the same time migraines started. I am going to go do something that's medically unjustified and have them removed. I will write back and let you all know if it solves my issues with migraines. Best Regards David

A high proportion of the posts dealing with mainstream medical topics are by people who see this forum as a place to denigrate evidence-based medicine. Then, when others respond to false and misleading claims and set the record straight, they are criticized for not sticking to herbal topics. Similarly, when a particular herbal or other alternative remedy is questioned as ineffective and/or dangerous, there are often gratuitous followup posts attacking mainstream medicine, when the original poster has not recommended or even mentioned mainstream treatment for the problem. So, most of the time it's alt med advocates who bring up the subject of mainstream medicine. There are instances where a poster asks about an herbal treatment for a problem, and is advised to seek an accurate diagnosis first from a physician before pursuing any treatment. This is not meant to rule out herbs or supplements as eventual treatment, but some find it unacceptable and threatening to mention physicians in any context other than a critical one. As for ad hominem/personal attacks, the best strategy is to disregard them and only address health-related remarks and questions. Once trolls realize they can't get a rise out of opponents or spark a flame war, they usually get bored and leave.

you aren't the only one halina, if others want to rely on the for total profit scientific research that is up to them, for me my experiences tell me we rely too heavily on that sector to our detriment, to put it simply there simply isn't enough human trialling done on those medications prior to release into the retail network, and there is precious little or no research done into what may happen when multiple doses of multiple scripts are prescribed. it comes down to the relyance on test tube testing and the use of lab rodents of which us humans are neither. and yes all institute research is paid for through donations and all concerned know who's toes no to stand on when they take the research on. by using natural processes and returning to a more natural diet i have now gone from taking 8 prescribed doses of different applications to taking a low dose of only 2 medications and i now have no more need for diabetese 2 treatment and next to go will be hypertension, not bad for a 60 year old who was told by his medical doc that the rest of life would be run on ever increasing dosages of ever increasing doses. i was very proactive in my treatments once i worked out what was realy happening and why. that one of my medical doc's was also a naturapath helped a lot the others just have no idea or don't want to know. like one stand over doc at a hospital said to me "if it worked we'd prescribe it" yeh as if, there is no profit in it for the chem' boys that is why they don't prescribe. anyhow one of my favourite signature lines is "it works for me it may work for you", get proactive and do your own researching if you can read this then you are already on a pretty good network to find out things that you can make better decisions from. oh and my naturapath doc' doesn't load me up with lots and lots of yes dearer other treatments some i take all the time as routine (well that is what others do with prescribed things isn't it?) others i take for specific result over a specific time frame. len