Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Herbal Combinations: A Joint Effort


The blood of the alfalfa plant is sometimes used to make liquid chlorophyll, which helps keep your body from losing calcium. A combination of herbs and supplements to help with arthritis symptoms includes bromelain, hydrangea, yucca, horsetail, celery seed, alfalfa, black cohosh, catnip, yarrow, capsicum, valerian, white willow, burdock, slippery elm, and sarsaparilla.
Other supplements that support digestion and that have been helpful to my own arthritic clients have been B6 supplements and food enzymes with hydrochloric acid.
If you have arthritis, consider these complementary treatments as well:
  • Externally, you can apply pure birch essential oil to painful areas to increase blood supply to the area and help ease pain.
  • Sodium-rich foods are helpful when suffering from any type of arthritic or structural problem. Juice and drink daily raw carrots, celery, parsley, and okra—all sodium-rich foods used to help relieve or correct arthritis.
  • Getting and keeping the circulation flowing will help maintain or bring back flexibility in the joints. Reflexology offers great relief for arthritic feet and hands by stimulating circulation and lymphatic movement. Massage also helps all joints and circulation, along with lymphatic flow. Massage and reflexology might be slightly painful at first but will usually bring relief shortly into the treatment.

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