A Cell Salt Experiment: The First Questionnaire

[ecosophia]

I'm pleased to say that with no small amount of help from well-informed friends, I've prepared a questionnaire for those of my readers who have been taking the Carey cell salt protocol, as described here and further outlined here and here. At this point we can begin gathering a first round of quantitative and qualitative data. All data collected in the survey will of course be confidential -- no names or other identifying data are requested, and the data will be published only in bulk form. 

Ready to contribute to the onward march of mad science?  Click here. 

A couple of comments might be helpful. First, if any of my readers are looking for a free online survey site, do not bother with SurveyMonkey. Their free account only lets you do a 10 question survey, but it's impossible to find this out until you've constructed your survey; then it tells you that you can't post it unless you want to fork over a lot of money. 

Second, several people suggested in the post discussing the questionnaire that I ought to use a fine-grained set of ethnic categories instead of very broad categories such as White/European, Black/African, etc. I understand their logic but I ended up going with the latter, for the simple reason that I don't expect to get enough responses to get statistically significant clusters in the fine-grained categories. My working guess is that this survey will get somewhere in the range of 100-200 responses, and at that level very broad categories are necessary. If the project gets a much larger response I'll look at a more finely divided survey. 

The final point I'd like to make is that this is a preliminary reconnaissance, intended to gather a first general sampling of data. A couple of months from now I'll post another survey, and probably a third one several months further on; those will be refined on the basis of the results of this survey, and also on the basis of further research. These are early days yet. In a month or so, when the data has come in, I'll post a summary here -- and away we go. 

Comments

[hwistle]

I'm a late comer into the mad lab (ordered the salts about a month ago, but only got one set so far...) so won't be filling this questionnaire, but happy to give feedback once I get all the salts and start with the protocol...

Manuel

[ecosophia]

Glad to hear it. Eventually I'll be publishing a book on the protocol, so I'll be pursuing the current research for a while yet.

[(Anonymous)]

That headline picture looks like it came from the alternate universe you once described where Science and Magic's positions are reversed and people keep test tubes lying around to impress dates.

survey

[(Anonymous)]

Filled out =^.^=

[(Anonymous)]

Ah final note.

Not everyone drinks coffee. I don't.
I do drink black/oolong/gree tea and soft drinks and eat chocolate.

Also a bonus question for alcohol - how did it effect you - same as or different.

[ecosophia]

Tea, soft drinks, and chocolate aren't known to interfere with the workings of homeopathic medicines. Coffee is -- thus the specificity of the question. As for your extra question, thanks for this and I'll consider it for a future questionnaire!

survey questions

[(Anonymous)]

Of course this would happen - the day after i complete the survey some additional thoughts come to mind. To late to add as additional thoughts. Grrr.

Re: open-ended survey questions on mental & physical health, perhaps in the introduction certain categories (but not conditions) could be mentioned; for example, attitude, memory, sleep, dreams, digestion, nails/hair, teeth, feet, seasonality/climate, etc. It might be helpful to participants to add a note with an estimated time for completion (i.e. 10 to 20 minutes). Household size and description might be helpful for some context. I'm not sure how that could be asked without making the survey too unwieldy. Perhaps something to consider at the very end of the study with additional notes/thoughts.

Sleep came to mind as something i thought of too late to add the survey comments. Upon waking this morning, i realized that since starting the protocol, I seem to be sleeping better with fewer nights of disturbed sleep or insomnia. My fingernails seem more brittle, but given the time they take to grow, any effects of the protocol will take some time to manifest. One other thing (maybe it's just my imagination), my cataracts don't seem to be bothering me as much. My scheduled (this May) cataract surgery was cancelled because of that-which-shall-not-be-named. Will see what happens when i get back to the doctor.

Re: the above comment about coffee. Timing might be a factor here, as I enjoy drinking a good cup of coffee typically around mid-morning to noon. I've never been a first-thing-in-the-morning-or-I'm-not-human coffee drinker. Coffee too early in the day might be a factor with the effectiveness of the cell salts. At least for some people, and not at all for others.

[hwistle]

Newbie question: I know you're meant to take your Bioplasma first time in the morning before eating anything, and, when due, your moon salts at least 15 mins after that, but, Do you also have to take the moon salts on an empty stomach, or can you take them after breakfast, lunch, etc?

Many thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Just out of curiosity, is it all coffee or just caffeinated coffee that has that effect?

[(Anonymous)]

Filled out the survey, My one piece of feedback is that for the questions around alcohol consumption and sexual activity, I wasn't sure what "frequently" meant, so just went with my own feeling. Maybe that's intentional for a preliminary survey, but I know that frequently might men very different things for different people. Like is once or twice a week frequent for drinking alcohol? For me it is, but someone else might say it's infrequent. Really enjoying being part of this experiment!

Not so alternate anymore

[open_space]

I am guessing anon will not check this post soon. JMG do you remember where you talk about this or around the topic? I would love to check it out.

Just finished my first pass of the lunar salts. I've been two weeks in with the protocol of the bioplasma. I am starting late so I am wondering if I should wait to input my data for next round. I was surprised on the first dose of bioplasma though. I felt an etheric component to it. Similar to what I feel when consecrating water or doing chi balls but in my head. Bad headache when I woke up, salts on the mail. That first dose helped to relieve it. Cool stuff! Do cell salts have an etheric component? Interesting to see too, that one of the cell salts is used for hyperacidity, which I have. Do you know where I can find how to use that specific salt in a more regular basis should that be helpful?

As for using the latest trendy fashion for picking up girls. I'm afraid that is not an alternate reality anymore. I did my pass through school not long ago and people are starting to use scientific buzzwords to delve dates into dorm rooms and shiny laptops with flashing logos for the same effect convertibles used to have. That is how I lost my now ex-girlfriend for good to a guy that dressed up as an electron for Halloween from an ivy league. As a physics student at the moment I made a salty physics joke about that. Of course they didn't get it because it didn't matter so...

Re: Not so alternate anymore

[ecosophia]

Here you go. (It was quite a while ago, but I remembered one of the details and so was able to track it down.)

As for the etheric dimension of cell salts, yes, very much so -- all homeopathy works by way of the etheric plane. You might find this discussion of the subject interesting.

Re: survey

[ecosophia]

Thank you!

Re: survey questions

[ecosophia]

Thank you for this! I'll be harvesting comments from these posts also, of course, and using them to help shape a more detailed questionnaire -- as well as further research directions.

[ecosophia]

That's one of the things I'm trying to figure out. Carey doesn't say.

[ecosophia]

I think it's all coffee -- but I'll have to look that up.

[ecosophia]

At the moment I'm working with very, very broad categories, so that shouldn't be a problem. If there turns out to be a statistically significant difference between the results for people who marked "frequently" and the results for people who marked "no," I can then design a second questionnaire with more specific questions.

Re: Not so alternate anymore

[open_space]

Thank you! I will check those out.