The theory is that by drilling a hole in the cranium, one increases the blood flow to the brain which results in higher consciousness, relief of depression, migraine, chronic fatigue, among many other ailments. Is there any evidence that increased blood flow to the brain has any medical benefits? Could increased blood flow to the brain ever be a bad thing
Don't ever read without thinking: doesn't a hole in the head result in blood
loss?
Drill a hole through a coconut, what happens?
Doctors perform 'trepanations' all the time, primarily to bleed out subcranial hematomas (blood pooled in the brain). In other words, more blood than there should be is
not good.
If anything, a significant increase of blood to the brain can be lethal as it raises intra cranial pressure which damages the cortex.
Look at that sexy increased consciousness:
Secondly, if the premise is that a hole in one's skull leads to higher conciousness as it increases blood flow, then why don't babies and children read Shakepeare and quote Buddha? All infants have not only one, but four, holes in their skull called fontanelles until about the age of 2 or so.
Thirdly, we can see what looks like coffe grounds matted near the bandages
-- this is the gorgeous dark of coagulation.
In other words, the body is desperately trying to scab the hole closed while the woman is desperately trying to keep it open.
And, adding insult to nonsense, how exactly is she increasing 'direct cerabral oxygen' if she is keeping the thing covered with bandages?
Fourthly- define consciousness: an alert cognitive state in which one is aware of onself and location, the abilty to manipulate one's enviroment and define relationships beween objects.
More of this means more awareness.
A child, with more holes in the brain, should have more of this awareness yet any daycare will prove that's not right.
To wit, according to this theory, this guy
...should now be an epistemelog more aware of the universe than he would be the pain of his skull literally bloated with blood.
Fifthly- a hole in the head means blood loss and this means less oxygen. This is presicely what happens to pilots when flying at high altitudes- they become hypoxic and faint, in other words,
lose consciousness, while this little theory claims you'd be gaining some.
And last but not least, this idea was proposed by a man who tried every drug on the street before conceptualizing the genius of supposing a container with a hole in it doesn't leak.
And in what mysteriuos moment of intellectual profundity did this junkie come up with the idea that a hemorrhage increases blood volume?
What led Dr. Huges to believe that trepanation would lead to enlightenment? His first insight came when he was taught that he could get high by standing on his head
Source
Mwaha....
Hughes claims that trepanation increases "brain blood volume" and thereby enhances cerebral metabolism in a manner similar to cerebral vasodilators such as gingko biloba. No published results of clinical trials of trepanation have supported these claims.
