Anal Fissures: "The treatment of fissure-in-ano is generally fairly simple. In the vast majority of cases it will go away without any treatment at all. If the fissure doesn't disappear on its own, a change in dietary and hygiene habits can reduce any general irritation to the anal canal that can be the underlying cause of the fissure."



Blow your itch away.

Symptoms, Their Causes & Cures Anal Itching: "Slash your coffee drinking. Coffee beans contain oils that you can't digest. The oils irritate the skin surrounding the anus when they are excreted from the body. Simply limiting yourself to one or two six-ounce cups of coffee daily may be enough to prevent or relieve anal itching, says Scott Goldstein, M.D., a colon and rectal surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia."

Blood and Coffee: "6 November 2002
So. Struggled the past two weeks to get my damn phone back--somewhere between the fact that the lines running through my basement paradise are nearly older than the house itself, and the fact that there apparently was never a phone wire running into the house in the first place to carry a signal...how creepy is that?...I lost phone service for two weeks.

But hey, we're back now, and check out this page dealing with sun sensitivity. First, goggle at the fact presented first--if it's true that I only need ten minutes of sunlight a day, maaaan, am I going to be yelling at doctors from now on! Second, scroll down to the section mentioned for sunscreens and look for the brand name Sun Play. Apparently, they have an SPF 130 on the market. I'm going to do my best to track down an address for these people and ordering instructions. Check back in a week or so. (Profound thanks go to alert reader Kenneth from Singapore. Yeah, international vamp community!)"

Coffee and cigarettes keep me svelte and spry.

Coffee makes me crap. And it makes me work. I cannot tell if it comes from the devil or from heaven. Sometimes it makes me itchy and insane. I have been told that they use it to poison frogs.

Fuck. Crap. Shit. No text to quote, but read this article (even though I didn't) from the Thai Ministry of Health: Coffee Overdose.

Luak coffee is one of those snicker-rich stories beloved of newspaper writers and party raconteurs. This gourmet curiosity consists (ostensibly) of coffee beans that have been excreted by a smallish animal called a luak or palm civet after the luak has consumed (and digested) the coffee fruit that previously enveloped those beans. Apparently villagers in parts of Sumatra both gather the beans from wild luak excrement as well as feed coffee fruit to luaks kept in cages.
Owing to a production method that is clearly limited in volume, Kopi Luak is a rare coffee that demands by far the highest price of any coffee on the world market -- currently around $300 per pound retail roasted.
Note that the luak-assisted method of picking and processing coffee is not so outlandish as it first may sound. Presumably the luak, like any good coffee picker, chooses only ripe coffee cherries to eat. And recall that in the classic wet method of coffee preparation, one step involves allowing natural enzymes and bacteria to literally ferment or digest much of the fruit from the beans.