Poop juice

As gross as it may sound, poop juice was a real thing in ancient China.  Weird Chinese culinary taste? Not really. It was a form of treatment for a wide variety of symptoms including gastrointestinal track, nervous system, and many gynecological problems. Now, similar therapy is being used in modern medicine. Poop is collected from people with "healthy gut microbiome",  make into a liquid form, pack in a capsule and make people eat it. Open Biome is a a non-profit stool bank who collect, pack and distribute the capsule.

This is another example illustrating the limit of human knowledge. This is an effective treatment of many patients with severe gastric symptoms and a number of other conditions. There is known link between gut microbiome and several neuronal conditions such as parkinsons disease, certain forms of autism, headache etc.  But we do not know how these are linked.

One proposed model is that of vagus nerve. It is the largest nerve in our body that is the key component of parasympathetic nervous system. It regulate several involuntary activities in our bodies, including hear beats, stomach and intestinal movements etc. This nerve gather information from most parts of our that we do not have conscious control over to the brain. Have you ever thought how certain food cause headache? How our mood and mental functions are linked to food we eat? Vagus nerve might be playing a role there. There research is very rudimentary here.

There is an ancient Indian energy system called Chakras.  I have no idea what it is. I heard people talking about it. These are "systems along our spinal chord" that control various emotional, physical and mental state of humans. In modern medicine there is nothing that corresponds to it. But yoga, kriya and such Indian practices vouch for this. Meditation and yoga can stimulate and bring these system in perfect "alignment" that facilitate human well being. The issue is no body know how it works and there are no instructions that  guarantee a reproducible system to regulate it. So, is "poop therapy". We know that it works, but do not know how it works. 

It is time for scientists to be a bit more open minded and stop discrediting things that we do not understand as "bogus". Of course not all scientists are like that, but there are a lot of us who are closed minded to phenomena that exist in this world. Things that we do not understand are the ones that should make us more curious. That is the mark of a good scientist.