Skin is just too dry?
It has been my experience that this indicates that the itch is actually somewhere else. When this happens to me, I just start itching all over the place until I find it.
Like the inner ear itch that gets scratched on the roof of the mouth. That makes perfect sense to me. Cheers.
i think thats allergies, i was shocked to find out some people didnt know what i was talking about.
I get this sometimes, I think it’s because the nerves that are actually triggering the itch are someplace else, kind of like when you get that itch inside your ear that you can somehow relieve by scratching the roof of your mouth with your tongue. I feel itchy now!
Hah. If I wanted to ask a really interesting question I’d ask why would scratching relieve an itch in the first place.
Semi-related, I listened to a podcast the other day that discussed sokushinbutsu where some Buddist monks would try to self-mummify themselves as a ritual to attain enlightenment. One of the steps involved Urushi tea which comes from the bark of the Urushi tree, or also known as the Japanese Varnish Tree, and the sap from this tree contains toxic and abrasive chemicals that can cause a rash similar to poison ivy. They would literally be itching on the inside and had to use mind over matter to ignore the extreme discomfort.
Did any succeed? Or did they just die and decompose like everyone else?
A few did. They are then enshrined in the temple and
worshiped(revered might be a better term?) as a living Buddha.
What a terrible journey to enlightenment. I’ll take psychedelics, thanks.
There are things besides surface objects that cause itchiness. Scratching only stops an itch if there was a surface object that was causing it.
For me personally, putting moisturizer on the spot gets rid of those itches most of the time
