If you suffer from rheumatoid arthritis pain, Chinese herbs are an effective pain reliever. This remedy is particularly beneficial for those patients taking COX-2 inhibitor drugs like Vioxx and Bextra because they can add the use of Chinese herbs into their pain management programs.
Going Oriental
During the time that two of the most well known medications for arthritis (Vioxx and Bextra) were taken off the market because it was linked to heart problems, patients were looking for a safer alternative. Some available arthritis medications do not have enough pain relieving benefits. Patients have to take these medications in higher dosages to feel the effect and most of them have harmful side effects when taken in dangerous dosages like liver failure.
Because of this, arthritis patients are turning to herbal medicine to manage the pain. But physicians from the West are reluctant to accept the Eastern way of medication although nowadays there are naturopathic physicians who practice both the western and eastern ways of medicine.
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One of the most debilitating side effects of chemotherapy is the nausea that it induces. The patient feels miserable and the nausea, more often than not, is quite severe. While it may seem to be a relatively harmless side effect of chemo, it is often not the case. Nausea leads to loss of appetite and that in turn results in severe dehydration which can threaten the general health of the patient.
There are several things that can be done to combat nausea. Changes in diet as well as taking anti nausea medication seem to work well. The simple ginger which we use in cooking considerably reduces the nausea associated with chemo treatments. The American Society of Clinical Oncology revealed the research finding that ginger can dramatically decrease the nausea caused by chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer. This remedy has always been practiced in households, but now the scientific community has also validated it.
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If you suffer from rheumatoid arthritis pain, Chinese herbs are an effective pain reliever. This remedy is particularly beneficial for those patients taking COX-2 inhibitor drugs like Vioxx and Bextra because they can add the use of Chinese herbs into their pain management programs.
Going Oriental
During the time that two of the most well known medications for arthritis (Vioxx and Bextra) were taken off the market because it was linked to heart problems, patients were looking for a safer alternative. Some available arthritis medications do not have enough pain relieving benefits. Patients have to take these medications in higher dosages to feel the effect and most of them have harmful side effects when taken in dangerous dosages like liver failure.
Because of this, arthritis patients are turning to herbal medicine to manage the pain. But physicians from the West are reluctant to accept the Eastern way of medication although nowadays there are naturopathic physicians who practice both the western and eastern ways of medicine.
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By age 3, two-thirds of all children will have suffered from at least one ear infection. Next to the common cold, a childhood ear infection is the most commonly diagnosed condition in the United States. Antibiotics are usually the preferred remedy for healing, but a lot of the time, prescriptions are written without a certainty that an ear infection even exists. This precautionary treatment has raised a growing cause for concern.
Do you know what you are really giving to your child?
Though it may feel natural to relieve your child’s ear infection pain with an antibiotic, you may be giving them something more harmful then helpful. Antibiotic therapy is extremely serious and may be life threatening if an allergic reaction occurs. Blatant misuse of antibiotic prescriptions have allowed for “super-strains” of bacteria to develop. These “super-strains” often times become resilient to antibiotic treatment. The strains are making it more and more difficult for advanced surgical procedures to be performed. If medicine does not have an effective antibiotic, then bacteria will not allow any life-changing surgery to occur. (more…)
One of the most common concerns that we hear in the office are from mothers who are wanting to bring their children in for chiropractic adjustments but are being told by someone else not to have their child adjusted. Many times the mother is trying to solve the puzzle of their child’s health problems and/or excessive medications. They are looking for safe, natural approaches to a growing problem of ADHD, Ear Infection, Autism, Asthma, Allergies and similar ailments.
It is quite understandable how a father would think chiropractic adjustments could not possibly help their child with any of the problems mentioned above. It is a well know fact that only nine percent of Americans actually use chiropractic. Out of that nine percent, there are many that are not even sure how it works and are only there for pain relief or to help with a headache because it has helped them before or someone they know. (more…)
If you have been suffering with headaches then you are not alone. Presently headaches are the #1 rated health complaint in America, surpassing even the common cold. There are an estimated 50 million chronic headache sufferers in the United States this year.
Every year, headaches roughly generate 80 million visits to the doctor’s office, 157 million lost workdays, over 50 billion dollars in medical bills, and over four billion dollars in over-the-counter medications. (more…)
