OSTEO-ARTHRITIS

 

Alternative Medicine

 
6/2006 www.lef.org  Taking sulphur such as MSM (methyl-sulfonyl-methane) & glucosamine may help reduce pain & inflammation up to 79%
[Some people prefer to avoid shellfish (ground feeders) & use vegetarian sources for sulphur.]
10/2012 -
Super Foods - http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2012/mag2012_10.htm from http://www.lef.org/magazine/index.htm -
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Pumpkins...are packed with tryptophan & essential fatty acids.1...
Pumpkin seeds are a rich source of magnesium, phosphorous & zinc (especially valuable for men), all over-looked minerals in optimizing bone health & preventing osteoporosis, (reducing the urge to urinate due to an overactive bladder, & providing) significant increases in protective HDL cholesterol but also a 47% decrease in total cholesterol & a 78% reduction in LDL cholesterol.9." 
 
Red Light Therapy: Effectiveness, Treatment, and Risks (webmd.com) 5/2022
 
Sea Cucumber - http://www.glucosamine-arthritis.org/glucosamine/sea-cucumber-osteoarthritis.html
"Sea cucumbers are marine relatives of starfish & sea urchins.
They are enriched with many proteins & nutrients including muccopolysaccharides & chondroitins which can lubricate joints & connective tissues. Proteins derived from Sea cucumber appear to have the desirable properties of being prostaglandin & leukotriene inhibitors."
 
Uncaria tomentosa (Cat's Claw) @ Efficacy and safety of freeze-dried cat's claw in osteoarthritis of the knee: mechanisms of action of the species Uncaria guianensis - PubMed (nih.gov) 9/2001 -
 
Medical Warnings
 
Limbrel (flavo-coxid) may cause acute liver damage www.naturalmedicinescomprehensivedatabase.com - 9/14/2012
 

Scripture

 
Bitterness as a root issue - The Adultery Test – Numbers 5:
26and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial offering & offer it up in smoke on the altar.  Afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.
27When he has made her drink the water, then it shall come about, if she has defiled herself & has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings a curse will go into her & cause bitterness, & her abdomen will swell & her thigh will waste away (needing hip replacement), & the woman will become a curse (rejected) among her people.
28'But if the woman has not defiled herself & is clean, she will then be free & conceive children.…