Arthritis Treated with Alternative Medicine

Which do you prefer?

You may not think that you can do anything to help your arthritic condition, if you hold this view, then these are your options: medications (anti-inflammatory medicines and analgesics), physical therapy, topical agents (arthritis rubs), intraarticular glucocorticoid injections (cortisone shots given into the knee joint), viscosupplements (lubricant injections into the knee joint), arthroscopy, and bracing, and possibly surgery.

All of the above or only some of the above may be used to treat your arthritis, some of these treatments will over time cause further health problems, particularly cortisone shots,and anti-inflammatory medications . You may gather from this that they are not improving your health, and certainly not curing your arthritis. That’s why you will be told to learn to live with your arthritis, but do you want to do this?

If you want your health back your answer to the foregoing question should be a definte no.So what other options are available to treat your arthritis ? There is a very simple step to be taken here which involves a change in your diet, do this and you will soon see that you really can learn to live without your arthritis.

Begin by eliminating all of the following from your diet:meat, saturated fats, margarines, cooking oils of the cheap highly processed kind, all processed foods, sodas, diet sodas,fast foods, sweets, puddings, and alcohol. Naturally if you want to regain your health smoking is to be stopped.

Eat only fresh organic vegetables and fruit, and lots of it, very small servings of steamed fish, a small amount of whole grain organic cereals, and begin to enjoy better health.You may complain that this type of diet is too difficult to follow, but keep in mind that if you don’t make any effort to overcome your condition, then what do you have to look forward to? A lifetime of medication, and ongoing side effects from these, loss of mobility, loss of independence, and slow but sure deterioration in your health, the choice is yours.

It may be soo much easier to hobble down to the doctor for the latest arthritis treatment, avoiding responsibility for your disease, rather than making an effort to change your diet, remember the choices we make influence our lives for better or worse.
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What is alternative medicine? Alternative medical treatments involve many different modalities, and many of these therapies may involve ancient healing techniques, which have a proven successful track record.

However, the fact that many of these therapies have fallen in the popularitiy polls, is not due to their lack of success, but rather to the invasive competitiveness of pharmaceutical companies which manage to prosper at the expense of the population’s health.

Alternative medicine treats the patient holistically, which means that if a person presents with rheumatoid arthritis their manifesting symptoms, such as red swollen inflamed joints, will not only be treated, but rather the practitioner will be looking to treat the causative factors which are involved in their disease.

If only superficial symptoms are treated, the underlying disease process will continue unabated, while the person naively believes that because the pain is not present, the disease is under control. Unless the whole person is treated, the arthritic diathesis will not only remain, but will continue to get worse.

Alternative medicines include naturopathy, Ayurveda, homeopathy, acupuncture and acupressure, chiropractic, hydrotherapy, hypnotherapy, and many other therapies and medicines that are designed to restore and maintain good health.

If you have rheumatoid arthritis and are looking forward to a lifetime of prescription drugs, it may be worth your while to give some thought to your diet. If you could make an all out effort to change your diet, you just may get better, so isn’t it worth the effort to give a healthy nutritious diet try.

All of the drugs you may be taking to relieve your symptoms, are doing just that, at least for a while, but they are not treating your disease. You need to change your diet to mostly vegetables and fruit, organic of course, eliminate all fast foods, processed foods, alcohol, sodas, diet sodas, saturated fats, meat and margarine.

If you knew you could improve the quality of your life and regain your health by following a healthy diet, wouldn’t you make the effort to do it?

Every prescription drug you take has side effects, so do OTCs, taking any of these for a long period will further degrade your health, so make a start today to pursue a healthy diet.

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