Strange Arthritis Remedies That Work

Vinegar

Vinegar has played a role in relieving aches and pains forever. They gave it to Jesus Christ when he was being crucified.

Perhaps the most successful advocate of vinegar for arthritis however, was Dr. D.C. Jarvis. He learned about home remedies from the farm families he cared for.

The recipe isn’t that different from one reported to have been used by Texas legend Sam Houston. Lore has it that he made apple juice, and one part cider vinegar and drank half a cup a day to relieve the aches and pains of arthritis.

Aspartame

This was not only found by chance, but it was later proven to be effective in a controlled, double blind study.

Allen B. Edmudson, PhD., is an X-ray crystallographer who happens to have osteoarthritis. One day he “consumed a six pack of diet cola (containing approximately 1.1 gm aspartame) while watching a football game. At the end of the game, arthritic pain and stiffness had disappeared from the hip joints, knees, and feet.”

Allen, being a scientist, put 2 and 2 together. He helped organize a rigorous double0blind, placebo controlled aspartame study. Subjects with osteoarthritis were tested fro grip strength, stair climbing ability, and pain after walking. Relief was reported in about one hour and peaked between two and three hours. People were able to walk farther and climb faster, and they noted a 56% reduction in pain.

Dr. Edmundson and his colleague, Dr. Carl Manion, concluded that their research has “broad implications to therapy for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and pain relief in general.

In extensions of the present work, we have noticed clinical benefits of aspartame in such divers applications as postoperative pain, sports injuries, stiffness after daily routines such a gardening, and partial replacement of morphine and NSAIDs in the management of chronic pain in multiple sclerosis.

With the exception of aspirin, aspartame may be the most inexpensive NSAID-like medicine currently available. Moreover, the relative safety and general effectiveness of aspartame seem to rival those of aspirin, without the gastrointestinal distress.”

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