Arthritis Treated with Alternative Medicine

Barney Garcia

Ankylosing Spondylitis, or AS, as it is commonly referred to, is a type of arthritis. It is a disease mostly seen in young men between the ages of 16 to 35. Females can be afflicted but their symptoms are typically mild. It can also appear in children, mostly male, but it is hardly ever seen in African Americans. It causes morning stiffness and back pain, which lying down or sitting, only worsens. It can cause pain on inhalation, fatigue, and weight loss.

AS is caused by inflammation to the tendons and ligaments that make back movement possible. The body’s response to this inflammation is to produce more bone, which in turn, causes the bones of the spine to weld together. Because the spine is unable to move, it bends forward from the weight of the head.

In the early stages, AS begins in the lower back. In later stages, the middle and upper back are involved. It can afflict the joints and tendons of the buttocks, thighs, and chest. The shoulders, knees, and ankles can also be involved.

Scientists feel the the culprit behind AS is a gene, HLA-B27, which fights infection and is activated for some reason. This does not mean that everyone who has the gene will get the disease, it needs to be switched on first. They are also investigating whether the culprit might be a certain type of infection. If this were the case, antibiotics might prove to be a useful tool for this type of disease.

Early detection and treatment can help prevent deformity and reduce pain. Anti-inflammatories are often prescribed as well as exercise to improve posture and increase strength. AS patients are often told to sleep on their backs to prevent further curvature of the spine.

Madeleine Innocent:


There’s nothing more empowering than using natural home remedies effectively. It has enormous WOW factor. Why? Well for a start, using natural remedies, you know you can’t do any harm as they’re gentle, non-invasive and work in harmony with your body. But the real WOW factor comes when you do good! It can be so exciting, that you can do so much good, in the comfort of your own home, without knowing much.

There are a variety of natural home remedies that you can safely use yourself, without knowing very much. There are some herbs (although many need more in depth information), there’s flower essences, there’s aromatherapy, there’s good nutrition, there’s kitchen home remedies and then there’s homeopathy.

Perhaps, out of all of them, homeopathy has the potential for doing the most good. All of the commonly available homeopathic remedies have a wide scope of use. For instance, the homeopathic remedy Arnica, the king of injury remedies can resolve the following conditions:

any ailment which stems from an injury, however far back including concussion, surgery, dental extractions, sprains, strains jet lag shift work fatigue labour arthritis, rheumatism sepsis, infections colds, flus skin eruptions malaria whooping cough pneumonia gout meningitis

Whilst I’m not proposing that you, as a home prescriber, attempt to treat such serious ailments as meningitis or pneumonia, I am suggesting that, with a bit of knowledge and a sharp eye, you have the potential of nipping these conditions in the bud.

Using natural home remedies does mean that you have to be a bt of a detective. You need to notice things about you or the family member you’re trying to help. For instance, you need to know their normal habits and traits, so you know when they have deviated from them. Someone who needs the homeopathic remedy Arnica is often averse to the approach of others. It’s logical when you look at it. As Arnica is the king of injury remedies, those needing it have been hurt. If they’ve been hurt once, the approach of someone may raise fears that you may further hurt them.

This isn’t a normal behaviour. So if your dog is suddenly apprehensive of your approach, he may have been injured.

I remember hearing of someone who had suffered severe gastritis for years. He’d been to see doctor after doctor, to no avail. Finally, he saw a homeopath. Homeopaths always ask about what happened to cause the problem. This was easy – a kick in the stomach from a donkey. Arnica was prescribed, and the gastritis disappeared completely.

Now if that had happened to you, with your homeopathic kit of natural home remedies, you could have prevented something like that from developing.

Lets dip into the mix and see what other examples of natural home remedies there are. Tomatoes are a popular food and can be easily grown in many climates. Tomatoes are full of a nutrient called lycopine. Lycopine is a natural sun screen. If you know some basic nutritional knowledge like this, you can eat your sunscreen – a much healthier option than the topical one.

What do you do if you’ve been stung by a plant or insect which packs a punch, and you’re in the middle of nowhere, with help miles and hours away? If you know your natural home remedies well, you’d know that if you urinate on the area, all will be quickly resolved.

Isn’t it fun!