Arthritis can strike at any age and at any time. It is not just a disease of age, especially rheumatoid arthritis. However, you do not have to let it keep you from doing the things you love.

For people who live an active lifestyle, the onset of arthritis is particularly agonizing. Imagine that winter is coming or you have a trip coming up and have invested a bunch in the best Salomon ski equipment. Then the twinges and aches start coming on and just walking seems like a chore.

Among the places that arthritis commonly affects first are knees and hands. When you experience leg arthritis you start to realize how much you use them every day and in everything you do. This is even truer with hand arthritis. However, there are things you can do to help you relieve the aches and pains and continue with your active life.

There are many different supplements on the market for the aches and pains in the joints that are the main symptoms of arthritis. Two of the most common of these are chondroitin and glucosamine. These have been used for a while so there are many studies showing their usefulness.

Glucosamine is a substance that is in both cartilage and fluid surrounding the joints for cushioning. As cartilage begins to wear down, as it does with osteoarthritis, pain, stiffness and swelling is experienced in the joints. Glucosamine supplementation helps by reducing loss in cartilage and also improving pain and inflammation.

Most supplements contain glucosamine that comes from the shells of shellfish such as crabs and prawns. But what do you do if you are a vegetarian? You do not have to make a choice between your dietary preferences and your joints. There is now a vegetarian glucosamine supplement. Not only is this perfect for vegetarians, it is also of benefit to people who are allergic to shellfish.

Many herbal supplements are also available to treat arthritis and other joint pains. You can purchase these yourself but you will get the best results if you visit with an herbalist. For example, different Chinese herbal formulas will be used depending on your individual condition. They are not used simply to treat symptoms.

But the bottom line is, do not let arthritis keep you for pursuing an active lifestyle. There are many different alternative therapies and supplements out there. The sooner you start investigating them, the sooner you can get that ski equipment out and head for the slopes.

JOINT INFLAMMATION is a very painful, with multiple sets of conditions (100), progressively leading to joint damage, deformity and loss of mobility. inflammation and engorgement of the arm and leg joints is characteristic of the disorder. Chronic pain, disability and death are unfortunate results.

Joint inflammation problems include:

• pain
• stiffness
• damage to joint cartilage (the tough, smooth tissue that covers the ends of the bones, enabling them to glide against one another) and surrounding structures.

Below you will find discusson on how Chinese herbs for pain and food therapy are employed to bring these conditions back to balance.

  

UNDERSTANDING JOINT INFLAMMATION?

JOINT DYSFUNCTION doesn’t take place suddenly and once grasped, can be transformed faster than you can appreciate. According to Chinese medicine, the primary problem underlying arthritis is obstruction with painful results. With varying degrees, there is an exhaustion of both the Liver and Kidneys and insufficiency of the physical energy (qi). The blood develops obstruction due to cold weather or internal damp-heat or drying imbalanced characteristics. The condition includes:

• cold or hot and painful joints
• difficulty in flexing and extending the joints
• aversion to cold or hot with attraction to the opposite condition
• In some cases the limbs and joints will be aching, numb, painful
• overall physical body feels heavy.
• tongue is a light pink or dark red

   

There are graduating arthritic conditions where the site of pain and deformity is more intense, with heat or cold predominating, however, the primary appraoch is to get the obstruction to move. This is done by changing the internal environment by opposing the wind-cold/hot-damp/dry and altering any external conditions contributing to the obstructions. Further consideration needs to be focused on the general emotional state that may ultimately support the obstruction.

 

HOW DO WE GET BETTER?

JOINT INFLAMMATION: FOOD THERAPY  & CHINESE HERBAL HERBS

“We are what we eat.” Most of us would agree that most conditions of imbalance are determined by what we put in our mouth. We unintentionally produce imbalances by not being conscious of how important this concern is, particularly in the mid to elderly years.If we select foods and supplements which break down our homeostasis then it would benefit us to become very attentive to our constitution and foods which improve equilibrium. Below, you can begin to choose foods that deliver balance for this obstructive condition: 

Foods That Benefit & Foods To Avoid

Foods to Counter Joint Pain: Asparagus, Cabbage (poultice & ingestion), Celery, Cod, Cherry, Chives, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Garlic, Ginger, Goats milk, Grape, Kelp, Oranges, Papaya, Pineapple (Bromelain), Pumpkin Seeds, Royal Jelly, Scallions, Sesame oll, Spelt, Spirulina, Soy products, Strawberry, Sprouts (mung, red clover, radish, mustard, lentil, adzuki, garbanzo, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds), Tumeric, Water melon, Barley products, Wheat grass products, Alfalfa products (tablets, tea), Chlorophyll foods, Almonds (5-6 dy.),

Foods to Avoid: Excess meat (some fish is best), Excess protein, Intoxicants (alcohol, coffee, tobacco, marijuana, etc.), refined sugar and other sweets, Oxalic acid foods (rhubarb, cranberry, plum, chard, beet greens, spinach), Solanine foods (Nightshade family veggies: tomato, eggplant, bell pepper, potato, if sensitive), Dairy (cow’s milk & bi-products), Nuts, Nut butters, oil-rich seeds,

HERB FORMULAS FOR PAIN   Formulas are created and rendered, taking into consideration, a person’s constitution, environment, life energy (qi), lifestyle and emotional status to name a few concerns. Chinese Herbs and medicine focuses on bringing all these areas into balance. The principal focal point requires a compound that purposely targets the site of pain, remedies the fundamental disequilibrium of the body without generating additional side effects.

Arm pain is a very painful, with multiple sets of inflammation conditions (100), progressively leading to joint damage, deformity and loss of mobility. Inflammation of extremity joints is characteristic of the disorder. Chronic pain, disability and death are unfortunate results.

Joint inflammation has an predictable incidence of 1 to 2%. Prevalence increases with age, approaching 5% in women over age 55. The average annual incidence in the United States is about 70 per 100,000 annually. Rheumatoid arthritis occurs two to three times more in women than in men. Although rheumatoid arthritis may present at any age, patients most commonly are first affected in the third to sixth decades.

Joint inflammation, collectively affect nearly 46 million adults and 300,000 children in the U.S. It is not selective. All are vulnerable to this condition. Every joint inflammatory condition affects the musculoskeletal structures and particularly the joints - wherever two or more bones meet.

Joint inflammation problems include:

• pain
• stiffness
• inflammation
• damage to joint cartilage (the tough, smooth tissue that covers the ends of the bones, enabling them to glide against one another) and surrounding structures.

In these conditions, joint inflammation can cause damage to virtually any bodily organ or system, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, blood vessels and skin. Pain-associated conditions principally influence the muscles and the bones.

Joint inflammation and related conditions are a major cause of disability in the U.S, costing more than $124 billion per year such as:

• lost wages
• production
• millions of people lose their health, physical abilities and independence.
• growing toll on on the health system as people age
• reduced coverage by employer’s insurance

  

Arm Joint Inflammation - Underlying Cause & Relief 

With graduating arm joint inflammation conditions, the majority of cases (90%) will be seen with cold sensations at the site of pain. A minority (10%) of the sufferers will have joints and related tissues that are hot to the touch. The primary appraoch in Chinese medicine is to counter the hot condition with cold methods to achieve a neutral state. This neutral zone relieves and corrects the tissues surrounding blockage in the channels. The opposite is true for cold conditions. Heat in the form of traditional Chinese herbs will alter the joint environment by establishing neutrality. Improved circulation and energy results in progressively removing toxicity (unflitered blood, de-oxygenated blood, unnatural tissue). The obstruction may be subtle to extreme in density but in all cases, to remove the barrier, herbal formulation needs to counter the underlying condition before the impediment can move on. Furthermore, nutritional advice should align with similar logic relative to enhancing remediation.

Additional attention needs to be given to the general emotional state that may indirectly support the blockage. Particularly, the irrational beliefs that contribute to the person remaining in stressful states rather than relaxing as needed for recovery. Healthy individuals recognize limits and allow for a regenerative lifestyle.   

 

Arm Relief from Traditional Chinese Herbs   

This formula is a historical compound dating back over a thousand years. Because the original base formula has survived the test of time there is no doubt of its effectiveness.

Benefits:

1. Alleviates pain in the fingers, up the arms through the neck
2. Restores natural feeling and muscle sensation
3. Revitalizes the extremities with emphasis on the upper limbs
4. Restores circulation, opening the capillaries supplying the absent nutrition
5. By invigorating the circulation, cold and phlegm in the upper extremities is moved out.
6. Harmonizes the transport of body fluid alleviating excess retained water.
7. Evacuates pathogenic fluid in the vessels supporting shoulders and neck
8. Eliminates joint inflammation complaints restoring normal movement

Joint Inflammation complaints in the upper extremities have been resolved, successfully, for millions of people over the last 300+ years in recorded Chinese history.

Though this pain formula improves the languid condition, Client’s condition is greatly supported when the infirmed change their life habits. A healthy body is the natural state. God has provided a miraculous ability for the body to heal itself and we can join in the effort.

• Sleep (ideally): adults (10-6:30pm), adolescents (9:30-6:30pm), children 8:30-6:30pm
• Eating: Regular times, lower caloric content, adjusting as we get older depending on body type
• Exercise: Regular 3xs per week (1 hr.), adjusting rigor with age & health

When an individual can define their current constitution and then choose a strategy that balances their body type back to neutral and then achieve that center, the individual’s relief shines all over their being. Breath of life and a reasons to smile come back. Many of the alternative medicine strategies (Traditional Chinese Herbs) deserve further look for their simplicity yet effective results as is the case in this formula.