Smooth rock tripe: cyst (ganglion) info - Dr Andy Weil, Harvard, bottom of the foot * Thanks so much for the general exam yesterday at UPMC Shadyside hospital, and for the "cyst" word in your naming the nodule on the bottom of my left foot. In doing further research, I've learned much, including from this Harvard URL, and from Dr. Andy Weil MD, ad in seeing this picture. As I just text messaged to my Reed College friend Tym Lenderking in DC (from 1979) - "Tym, rereading this - https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/bone-joint/ganglion-cyst/ (from an old hippy:) - found this: " What is the conventional treatment? One traditional “treatment” was to hit them with a heavy book ... " :)" * David, All, Further, do we or might have the beginnings of the virtual World Univ & Sch Medical research group ... with a first "Cyst on the Bottom of the Foot Disappearance with Yoga Asana Pose Disruption" scientific study emerging? Examine the UPMC Shadyside Presbyterian hospital databases for all MD records of patients' electronic medical records, and with cyst on the bottom of their foot, and of all the people in UPMC's hospital databases in all 3 UPMC states - PA, MD, and WV - and ask MDs

New cyst on the bottom of your foot, like a #GanglionCyst? How could we study scientifically the effects of #IyengarYogaAsana as exercise to "disrupt the capsule holding the fluid of the cyst" per #DrAndyWeilMD https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/bone-joint/ganglion-cyst/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/29906785018224531/ @WorldUnivAndSch Med? 

Dear David, All,

Thanks so much for the general exam yesterday at UPMC Shadyside hospital, and for the "cyst" word in your naming the nodule on the bottom of my left foot. In doing further research, I've learned much, including from this Harvard URL, and from Dr. Andy Weil MD, ad in seeing this picture. As I just text messaged to my Reed College friend Tym Lenderking in DC (from 1979) - 

"Tym, rereading this - 

https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/bone-joint/ganglion-cyst/ (from an old hippy:)

 - found this: " What is the conventional treatment?

One traditional “treatment” was to hit them with a heavy book ... " :)" 

So while I haven't tried this yet, and none of the other resources below offer any helpful effective therapies, some questions I have are: how much pressure, how many times a day and even how could we develop & study this scientifically (at OCW.MIT.EDU-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, at Shadyside hospital, etc.) and with your help or thinking too? While I'm going to explore hitting the cyst behind the ball of my left foot with a book soon, and experimentally, thanks to this 'telemedicine,' it might be interesting to explore these questions together at some point in the future.  

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? 

Thank you again so much, David!

Best regards, abolition-ally, Friendly greetings, Scott 

PS

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Harvard URL:

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Photo is relevant - 

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ganglion cyst - Dr Andy Weil 

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https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-patients-and-visitors/find-a-program-or-service/orthopaedics/hand-and-wrist-pain/treating-ganglion-cysts-in-hand-and-wrist#:~:text=Non%2Dsurgical%20Ganglion%20Cyst%20Treatment,can%20be%20removed%20through%20aspiration.

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cyst on bottom of foot why disappear naturally?

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/skin-cyst/#:~:text=A%20skin%20cyst%20is%20a,and%20may%20disappear%20without%20treatment.

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https://www.orthobethesda.com/blog/what-to-do-when-a-ganglion-cyst-ruptures/#:~:text=Ganglion%20cysts%20may%20go%20away,resolve%20themselves%20in%20this%20way.

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DIDN'T find anything helpful YET with the following

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Yoga inverted poses, or other asana, ayurvedic medicine or herbs, or Chinese acupuncture or medicine (except possibly electroacupuncture) or natural remedies or herbs YET (besides the HEAVY BOOK "treatment" above) 

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https://ayurvedapc.blog/2021/11/17/ganglion-cyst-ayurvedic-treatment-diet-exercises-yoga-pranayama/ 

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How can I shrink a ganglion cyst at home?
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Hot compress. Simple heat is the most recommended and effective home measure for draining or shrinking cysts. ...
Tea tree oil. Essential oil from the tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) may help some cysts, albeit in an indirect way. ...
Apple cider vinegar. ...
Aloe vera. ...
Castor oil. ...
Witch hazel. ...
Honey. ...
Turmeric.
https://www.healthline.com/health/home-remedies-for-cysts

PS

After reading this from Dr Nagarkar (and seeing some Youtube video initial cyst hitting pics to), I had second thoughts about hitting the new cyst on my left foot with a heavy book to DISRUPT it - 

per Andy Weil MD's word.

Tweeted:

So I'm going to do some 'disruptive' Iyengar Yoga standing poses in a moment (and more asana than now regularly) to see if I can disrupt this left foot cyst (per Dr. Andy Weil's "disrupt" word), in different ways than with a heavy book. Clinical trials scientifically would be a challenge here - 

- so maybe best instead to extend my daily yoga practice. Thoughts about outcomes?

Thank you again, Scott

Further, do we or might have the beginnings of the  virtual World Univ & Sch Medical research group ... with a first "Cyst on the Bottom of the Foot Disappearance with Yoga Asana Pose Disruption" scientific study emerging? Examine the UPMC Shadyside Presbyterian hospital databases for all MD records of patients' electronic medical records, and with cyst on the bottom of their foot, and of all the people in UPMC's hospital databases in all 3 UPMC states - PA, MD, and WV - and ask MDs in all these hospitals about their possible unreported cysts they've seen, on their patient's foot bottom? Begin to develop studies and hypotheses to test about the possibility of disruption of the bottom of the foot cysts disappearance due to disturbance of the cysts  ... and with Yoga asana too, and which poses and from home, and why? Then begin the studies? Reach out to people in the UPMC databases who would be interested in participating in such studies from home - and with Yoga asana, and other approaches too? World University and School would be interested in exploring these possible scientific research studies further. 

And might we have the beginnings too of the startup World Univ & Sch Medical Doctor for online clinical practice team too, and in 200 online WUaS teaching hospitals https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - and as part of ~200 online WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School?

Cheers, thank you, abolitionally, best regards, 

Scott