trophy wrote on May 30^th, 2008 at 10:59pm:


Try a brew / tea made from Valerian & Chamomile and Skullcap.
These are common herbs found in most health stores or herbalists.
They produce a calming sedative effect without impairing your senses.

Also try Biral - a trademarked herbal calming tablet.

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I have always been a bit of a skeptic of herbal anything, at least until a double-blind, placebo-controlled test shows that an herb works as claimed.  However, I will say for the sake of argument that these brews work... and...

Will then tell you that it doesn't much matter if the polygrapher or VSA tech wants you to fail.  You could be a corpse and fail if they want it to go down that way (or be a pathological liar and pass).  If it's a "legit" test, one where at least the interrogator doesn't have an agenda, what happens?  You produce a calmer, less extreme baseline.  No interrogator worth his magic act will allow himself to think he can be fooled by a flatter readout, and he'll make a decision anyway... be he biased or not.

If you want to presume that you'll be treated "fairly", meaning your destiny isn't pre-ordained by the interrogator, then it might be worth a try... but know that no result is issued without injecting the judgment of the polyboy or VSAdmin, and only with that judgment... or it's all a setup from the beginning...