Dispensary Corner 06 Oct 11
October 6, 2011
KLINGON: a new treatment for
dyslexia?
A 50-year old dyslexic sufferer,
Milton Keynes has told the media
that the fictional Star Trek
language of the “Klingon” race,
helped him to identify his
problem and to work with his
condition.
Keynes, a keen Star Trek fan,
became interested in Klingon
after he heard there was a
dictionary for it, and soon after
starting to study the language
discovered he had no trouble
reading it because he “used a
different part of his brain”.
“I realised I’d been trying to
remember the words in the
name part of my brain and
because I can’t remember
names, I can’t remember the
words,” he said.
“With the Klingon language
games used on the CD, I tended
to put words into a different
place and it went into my long
term memory,” he added.
SALT can cure anything, right?
The latest visitor attraction in
Queensland is a special new spa,
offering “Australia’s most
advanced Salt Cave Therapy”.
Located in the Brisbane suburb
of Cleveland, the Salt Sanctuary
invites patients to relax in themed
Salt Rooms listening to soothing
music while “negative ionised
microscopic salt particles reach
the innermost parts of your lungs”.
According to the spa’s website
the salt rooms can help with:
asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, hay
fever, COPD, cough, eczema,
psoriasis and emphysema.
The spa claims its hypertonic
saline aerosol inhalation treatment
has been clinically proven in
European studies to clear mucous
from airways, enhance the
mucociliary clearance mechanism
and to improve lung function.
Salt sessions start at a cool $25,
and if anything, they must leave
patients feeling like they’ve spent
a day by the seaside.
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