Arthritis Anhang
Frei nach: Dana Ullman
Joint Inflammation
The word
arthritis means "inflammation of a joint," and there are various ways
in which people experience this. There are dozens of kinds of arthritis:
osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, systemic lupus, and bursitis and
others. It will rarely kill you. The bad news is that the stiffness that
sufferers experience can make them feel as though rigor mortis has set in
early.
Osteoarthritis
is the most common type of arthritis. Sometimes called the "wear and
tear" variety of arthritis, osteoarthritis is thought to be a natural
result of aging. This is just a theory; however, as evidenced by the 93-yr-old
man from
Osteoarthritis Factors
There are
other factors besides aging that precipitate osteoarthritis. Likewise, each
type of arthritis has numerous influences that increase or decrease the chances
of getting it. It is known, for instance, that women experience
most types
of arthritis 2 – 8x as often as men (except gout and ankylosing spondylitis).
Use it, or you lose it
Range-of-motion
exercises are very important in increasing circulation and reducing stiffness.
Although one should avoid exercising a joint that is currently inflamed or
"hot," these joints can be gently moved along their range
of motion.
Swimming is particularly good. Although jogging is not associated with
degenerative joint disease, you might consider walking as an alternative form
of exercise if you experience any joint pain during or after jogging. Don't
overdo any exercise, but don't underdo it either. Try to exercise 15 to 20
minutes a day, 5 days a week.
Avoid arthritis "cooperators"
Some
evidence suggests that certain foods can aggravate an arthritic condition. Although
such foods are not thought to "cause" arthritis, they may
"cooperate" with it and make it worse. Experiment by avoiding foods
from the Solanales (except for potato juice - explained
further on). Tobacco is also a member of the nightshade family that can
aggravate arthritis. Milk, fats, and citrici are possible cooperators. As an
experiment, avoid, or at least significantly reduce, ingesting them.
Apply some herbal heat
Cayenne
pepper is known to contain a painkilling chemical called capsaicin. There are
now some over-the-counter drugs as well as some herbal products that are
primarily composed of capsaicin. Apply it externally directly to and around the
source of pain. Ideally, use a standardized cream with 0.025%-0.075% capsaicin.
Expect your initial applications to produce a burning sensation.
Glucosamine what?
Glucosamine
is a natural substance found in high concentration in the body's cartilage and
joints. Although it doesn't exhibit significant anti-inflammatory or analgesic
properties, it provides structural support to the joints and helps relieve the
pain and discomfort in many people suffering from arthritis. Consider taking
500 mg 3x daily (on an empty stomach) -- but if irritation occurs, take it with
food. Most of the best research on people with arthritis has been with
glucosamine sulfate; consider using this type of glucosamine first. By the way,
some sources suggest that people with a heart condition should avoid taking this
supplement.
Water yourself
Stimulate
circulation in the affected areas by taking a hot shower or bath, and then turn
on the cold water. Repeat the hot cycle, and then return to the cold. If your
hands, knees, or feet are the primary sources of pain, you can simply place
them in a tub or sink of hot and then cold water. Alternative is to place a hot
pack on a specific area # a cold pack. Try at least 2x daily.
Cast castor oil on the pain
Make a
castor oil pack and place it on a joint where there is pain,
but not when there's acute inflammation. Castor oil pack can be saved for
future use by rolling up the cloth and placing it in a Ziploc bag.
Become a juice potato
An old folk
remedy for arthritis is to drink raw potato juice. To make it, wash a potato
(don't peel it), cut it into thin slices, place it in a glass of cold water,
and leave it out overnight. Drink this water in the morning on an empty
stomach. The lowly potato is known to have antiviral inhibitors and is rich in
chlorogenic acid, which helps prevent cell mutations that lead to cancer.
Whatever it is in potatoes that helps arthritic sufferers is yet to be found,
but personal experience suggests that it can be helpful.
Fish oil can lubricate you
Research
has recently shown that fish oil supplements have anti-inflammatory effects
that may be helpful to arthritis sufferers. One important study showed
beneficial effects when people took 15 capsules a day, although most people
will probably experience benefits by taking 4 - 8 capsules daily.
Perna canaliculus = Grünlippmuschel.
Recent
research has also suggested that extracts from the
Bejewel
yourself in copper
People
suffering from arthritis have been known to experience relief when they wear a
copper bracelet. Although skeptics point to this treatment as a classic example
of quackery, or simply the placebo effect, it is known that some people with
arthritis have difficulty assimilating copper from the food they eat. Perhaps
wearing a copper bracelet provides them with a subtle but biologically active
source of this mineral. Lending further support to the use of copper,
homeopathic physicians commonly prescribe microdoses of copper (Cuprum
metalicum) to those people with arthritis who experience cramping pains in the
joints and jerking or twitching of muscles.
Bee stings for arthritis?
It is a
well-known bit of folklore that beekeepers have a low incidence of arthritis.
It is also known that one folk remedy for treating arthritis is getting stung
by a bee. An easier way to try this remedy is to get a homeopathic dose of bee
venom in Apis C 6 or 30 (Apisin?). This medicine is primarily helpful if you
have arthritic pain that is similar to the type of pain that bee venom causes:
burning pain, < heat, > cold/cool applications.
Are you too resistant to change?
Is the
stiffness in your character creating stiffness in your body? There's the story
of two caterpillars who look up and notice a butterfly. One caterpillar says to
the other: "You'll never get me up in one of those." Are you
resisting any inevitable changes in your life? Loosen up. Say to yourself:
"I expect change, and I will bend with it."
Dear, Dear Diary
Keep a
diary of your symptoms. Look for patterns of what might aggravate the pain that
you experience. Finding a pattern might not "cure" you, but it may
help you avoid those things that trigger your pain syndrome. Also, recent
research has found that simply writing about your experiences with arthritis
has a therapeutic benefit. Write on!
Puls. and
coffee for rheumatic pains in the limbs [Constantine Hering, M. D.]
Yam-ha = Totes meer
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
[Nimish
Mehta]
Abrot:
Inability to move. Marasmus of lower extremities only. Soreness and lameness,
worse mornings. Gout in wrists and ankles. Inflammatory rheumatism before
swelling begins. Marasmus of children with marked
emaciation,
especially of leg, the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds. Constipation #
diarrhoea = lienteria. Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially
of legs; the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds.
Acon:
Arthritic and rheumatic drawing and tearing pains (limbs). Acute and violent
pulling in the joints and the bones, mitigated by the heat of a bed.
Contraction of the tendons, and stiffness in the flexor
muscles of
the limbs. Cramp-like contraction of several limbs. Aconite is generally
indicated in acute or recent cases occurring in young persons, especially girls
of a full, plethoric habit who lead a sedentary life; persons
easily
affected by atmospheric changes; dark hair and eyes, rigid muscular fibre.
Apis:
Oedematous. Synovitis. Felon in beginning. Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive,
sore, with stinging pain. Feet swollen and stiff. Feel too large. Rheumatic
pain in back and limbs. Tired, bruised feeling. Numbness of hands
and tips of
fingers. Hives with intolerable itching. Oedematous swellings. Adapted to the
strumous constitution; glands enlarged, indurated; scirrhous or open cancer.
Women, especially widows; children and girls who,
though
generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them.
Ars: Acute
drawing pains in the arms and in the hands. Swelling of the arms, with blackish
pustules of a putrid smell. Acute drawing pains in the night, beginning from
the elbow and ext. armpits acute pulling and shooting in
the wrists.
Cramps in the fingers. At night, sensation of fullness and swelling in the
palms of the hands. Excoriation between fingers. Hard swelling of the fingers,
with pain in the finger-bones. Cramp in the legs.
Acute
drawing pains in the hips, extending to the groins, the thighs, and sometimes even
to the ankle-bones, with uneasiness, which obliges one to move the limb
constantly. Tearing and stinging in the hips, legs, and loins.
Tearing in
the tibia. Rheumatic pain in the legs, and especially in the tibia. Paralytic weakness
of the thigh. Pain, as from a bruise in the joint of the knee. Affections of
the shin-bones. Fatigue in the legs and in the feet.
Pains in
the fleshy part of the toes “As if galled by walking”. Great Prostration, with
rapid sinking of the vital forces; fainting.
a. Depression, melancholy, despairing,
indifferent.
b. Anxious, fearful, restless, full of anguish.
c. Irritable, sensitive, peevish, easily vexed.
The greater
the suffering the greater the anguish, restlessness and fear of death. Mentally
restless, but physically too weak to move.
Bell: Pains
in the joints and bones. Rheumatic pains (in the joints) flying from one place
to another. The pains < chiefly at night, and in the afternoon towards three
or four o’clock. < least touch/sometimes also the slightest movement. Some
of the symptoms < or start after sleep. Jerking in the limbs, muscular
palpitations and shocks of the tendons. St.Vitus dance. Sensation in the
muscles, as if a mouse were running over them. Cramp, spasms,
and
convulsive movements, with violent contortion of the limbs, convulsive fits,
with cries, and loss of consciousness, epileptic convulsions, drawing back of
the thumbs. Renewal of the spasms by the least contact, or from
the glare
of light. Burning in the inner parts. Attacks of immobility and of spasmodic
stiffness of the body, or of some of the limbs, sometimes with insensibility,
swelling of the veins, bloatedness and redness of the face,
pulse full
and quick, with copious sweat. Spasms in single limbs, or of the whole body, in
children, during dentition.
Adapted to
bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are lively and
entertaining when well, but violent and often delirious when sick.
Bry:
Over-sensitiveness of the senses to external impressions. Rheumatic and gouty
pains in the limbs, with tension, < motion/contact. Tension, drawing pains,
acute pullings and shootings (limbs) and chiefly during movement, with
insupportable pains on being touched, sweat of the part affected, and trembling
of that part when the pains diminish. Stiffness and shootings in the joints, on
being touched and when moved. In the evening, pain, as from fatigue, in the
limbs, with paralytic weakness. Torpor and numbness of the limbs, with
stiffness and pain of fatigue. Pale, tense, hot, swelling. Red, shining
swelling of some parts of the body, with shooting during movement.
Pain, as
from a bruise, or of subcutaneous ulceration, or as if the flesh were detached
from the bones. Dragging, with pressure, on the periosteum.
It is best
adapted to persons of a gouty or rheumatic diathesis; prone to so-called
bilious attacks. Irritable, inclined to be vehement and angry; dark or black
hair, dark complexions, firm muscular fibre; dry nervous, slender
people.
Calc: Pain
as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from overlifting. Pain between
shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheuma in lumbar region; weakness in small
of back. Curvature of dorsal vertebrae. Nape of neck stiff and
rigid.
Rheumatoid pains, as after exposure to wet. Sharp sticking, as if parts were
wrenched or sprained. Weakness of extremities. Swelling of joints, especially
knee. Arthritic nodosities.
Leucophlegmatic,
blond hair, light complexion, blue eyes, fair skin; tendency to obesity in
youth. Psoric constitutions; pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking.
Disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldy. Children with red face, flabby
muscles, who sweat easily and take cold readily in consequence. Large heads and
abdomens; fontanelles and sutures open; bones soft, develop very slowly.
Curvature of bones, especially spine and long bones; extremities crooked,
deformed; bones irregularly developed. Head sweats profusely while sleeping,
wetting pillow far around.
Cham:
Cracking in joints, with pain in them as if bruised. Pain in periosteum of
limbs with paralytic weakness. Convulsive single jerks in limbs. All joints
sore as if bruised and tired out, there is no power in hands or feet,
though
without corresponding weariness. Persons (child) with light-brown hair,
nervous, excitable temperament; Child exceedingly irritable, fretful; quiet
only when carried; impatient, wants this or that and becomes angry
when
refused, or when offered, petulantly rejects it.
Med:
Rheumatic pain in top of left shoulder, worse from motion, occasional little
darts of pain if kept still. Rheumatic pain in (right) shoulder and arm.
Cracking of joints, especially elbows. Much pain in left arm, cannot
hold a
paper, veins become enlarged, worse raising arm. Trembling of arms and hands.
For persons
suffering from gout, rheumatism, neuralgia and diseases of the spinal cord and
its membranes – even organic lesions ending in paralysis – which can be traced
to a sycotic origin.
Rhus-t:
Hot, painful swelling of joints. PAINS TEARING IN TENDONS, LIGAMENTS AND
FASCIAE. Rheumatic pains spread over a large surface at nape of neck, loins,
and extremities; better motion. Soreness of condyles
of bones.
LIMBS STIFF, PARALYZED. THE COLD FRESH AIR IS NOT TOLERATED; IT MAKES THE SKIN
PAINFUL. Tenderness about knee-joint. Loss of power in forearm and fingers;
crawling sensation in the tips of fingers. Tingling in feet. Adapted to persons
of rheumatic diathesis; bad effects of getting wet (after being over-heated).
Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.