Hello everyone, this is Dr. West coming at you with a hundred and two years of
clinical healing. We're going to talk about a topic that's really really important,
how to manage pain naturally and without prescriptive drug therapies, the
treatments that work, some things that you can do at home and the natural
things you can help to improve your quality of life, here it is.
Hello everyone, this is Dr. West, we're going to talk about pain and natural pain
considerations, why pain makes the body so tired, an alternative to prescriptive
medication so we want to know where does pain come from, well it comes from trauma,
from disease, from auto suggestion, there can be dental involvement and then lack
of adequate nutrition is a huge factor on why people struggle with chronic pain.
Now are you in pain? Do you have to reach for an over-the-counter painkiller, even
the heavy pharmaceutical hitters prescribed by your doctor and there are
literally hundreds of natural pain killers waiting for you in the abundance
of nature, you can count on plants and herbs to alleviate many things from
arthritis pain, to headaches, to burn, I mean, here's the information. Now no one
wants to live in pain and many pharmaceutical pain medications while
effective and useful, it can be downright dangerous and addictive but there's
other solutions to your pain problems and almost always if we find that
pharmaceuticals are doing the trick, we can find a plant that's doing the same
trick and doing it more safely says botanist James Duke, who's an author of
the Green Pharmacy Guide to Healing Foods, another expert, Dr. Dillard, the
author of the chronic pain solution says, no matter how well you prescribe
medication, chronic pain sufferers don't get complete relief and it's an enormous
problem and the medical community is doing a bad job solving it and before
you do anything else, you have to quit the junk food that fires up the pain
system, he says. Now the modern western diet is comprised of highly refined
foods like sugar, refined carbohydrates, and most of it is devoid of
fruits and vegetables and whole grains and it's going to block the ability
of other non-pharmaceutical remedies to halt pain and if you think about
inflammatory foods like white sugars, high fructose, corn syrup, inflammatory
grains, wheats, white bread, rolls, biscuits, all of those really really aggravate
chronic pain problems and once you've done that, you can turn up the many herbs
the vitamins and minerals and enzymes that can really help. There's also like
sixty different essential oils that help with pain and analgesic properties and
analgesic means that the substance has shown to relieve or reduce pain. So many
plants have pain relieving properties, so here's a couple
considerations for natural painkillers. Number one, things like ginger, tumeric,
and holy basil because these sets of herbs form a sort of trinity in
Ayurvedic medicine and all of them have anti-inflammatory properties. Tumeric
which is a greens curcumin which ease inflammatory conditions like
osteoarthritis, rheumatoid, arthritis, psoriasis, and chronic headache problems.
According to the Methodist Research Institute at Indianapolis, each herb has
its own scientific database of evidence, says Dr. Dillard. Now other things that
really help chronic pain patterns are things like chiropractic manipulative
therapy, physiologic therapeutics, physical therapy through motion and
stretching and rehabilitation of muscles and joints, soft tissue release and
massage therapy. Another herb that works really well is something called devil's
claw. This ominous sounding herb is actually great for treating numerous
health conditions and among them are liver problems and heartburn, it also has
an anti-inflammatory effect and can reduce pain from arthritis, from
headaches and low back pain, according to the University of Maryland Medical
Center and has published several studies with great success treating
osteoarthritis. The leaves from the birch tree act much like cortisone without all
of the deleterious or bad side effects, it's helpful to treat hormone disorders,
it's good for arthritis, it's good for autoimmune conditions like lupus skin
diseases and more. And the main chemical compound found in birch leaves is called
Methyl Salicylate which is similar to salicylic acid which used an aspirin.
It has an antispasmodic and analgesic and astringent
and antifungal, a diuretic detoxifying agent, and reduces oxidative damage to the
skin which helps to reduce and contain wrinkles. I mean, everybody should really
be taking this. It also promotes enzymatic secretions in the body, is
truly one of the first powerful pain relievers ever used. Now you could use
essential oils like wintergreen, which I've seen have amazing outcomes, white
willow bark has an active ingredient called salicin, which is the body
converts into salicyclic acid and this tree covering lowers the body's levels
of prostaglandins and a hormone like compounds that cause aches, pains, and
inflammation. And what's more, white willow bark doesn't upset the stomach or
cause internal bleeding like many of the over-the-counter aspirins. So this herb,
you get relief from menstrual cramps, from muscle pains, from arthritis or
after knee or hip surgery as it promotes blood flow and healing. Now some foods
that are really helpful for pain and inflammation, one of the herbs that's
really helpful for payment inflammation is capsaicin and it's found in hot chili
peppers and this natural remedy does wonders for pain. The active pain
reducing component temporarily desensitizes the nerve receptors called
C fibers which cause the pain response, which also helps to diminish the
soreness for three to five weeks while the C fibers regain sensation. A single
application of patients with neuropathic pain produce effective rein relief for
up to 12 weeks, according to the treatment protocols at the New England
Center for headache and it decreased their migraines and cluster headaches
intensity by applying capsaicin cream basically to their nose and their nasal
passages. Now an essential fatty acid called gamma linoleic acid
or GLA, it can be found in numerous seed oil. According to the
University of Maryland, people who consumed these essential fatty acids
were able to reduce nerve pain associated with diabetic conditions.
One of my favorite foods to recommend people is cherries because it has the presence
of compounds called anthocyanins, the same phytonutrients that give cherries
their rich ruby hue or their color, you can count on
to tamp down on pain. According to Dr. Nair, that they block inflammation and
they inhibit pain enzymes just like aspirin, naproxen and
other non-steroidal anti-inflammatories again without the side effects. Cherries
are said to have the highest anti-inflammatory content of any food,
making them great for a remedy issues such as arthritis. Now there's another
thing called Aquaman and it's derived from red seaweed. Aquaman is a powerful
pain reducer in a study published in the nutrition Journal of 70 volunteers.
Aquaman users reduced arthritis by 20% in a month that had less stiffness than
the patients taking a placebo. Now helping to diminish inflammation helps
to build bonds so it's really effective in osteoarthritis. Now one of the age-old
treatments for aches and pains is arnica, it's an excellent herbal rubs used after
intense sports or an acute injury or even after a surgery and it's well known
natural painkiller among athletes and people that do yoga, it's derived from a
European flower and has amazing anti-inflammatory properties, although
the true nature of this healing action is still kind of unknown. Now peppermint
is most often used as a natural remedy for toothaches but it's really good for
bloating, for gas, for joint conditions, skin irritations, headaches and muscle
pain. Another herb called boswellia is sourced from the frankincense tree
and its resin is used to thwart chemical reactions that cause inflammation and
thus joint pain and ayurvedic scientists have used boswellia for centuries to
treat arthritic conditions as well as inflammatory bowel disease. Bromelain is
a natural pain reducer that comes from enzymes present in pineapple stems.
Research shows that it reduces the level of prostaglandins, which are hormones that
adduce inflammation. Bromelain has many benefits with people
with arthritis and conditions marked by musculoskeletal tension and
musculoskeletal means muscles and joints, things like TMJ syndrome and in addition to those
suffering from trauma related inflammation, the enzyme helps the moment
healing and muscles and connective tissue and one of the clinical tips they
learned about 15 years ago that if you combine high levels essential fatty acids
omega-3's about six to eight thousand milligrams which is typically six to
eight pills with the proteolytic enzyme like bromoaniline, its enormously
beneficial helpful for muscle aches, pains and headaches. Now cranberry juice
is usually what you think of when you get a urinary tract and
but if you're having a bout of stomach problems, ulcers usually result from a
pathogen called h-pylori which attacks the lining of the
stomach and the small intestines but cranberry juice can kill it and reducing
pain and so instead of turning to antibiotics which may destroy the good
and the bad bacteria, causing your ulcers and urinary tract infections, you can
treat with cranberry or cranberry juice extract. Now it's really important that
if you're gonna use a cranberry juice extract, that if it tastes really good,
it's probably the wrong thing. Cranberry extract, when it's really helpful, is very
very tart, nearly bitter, it's not something that you would drink for fun
but it's really really effective for ulcers and urinary tract infections.
There are hundreds more natural pain killers but adding some of these that we
talked about above is great for your home medicine cabinet and this is the
video for you if you want some alternatives to deal with chronic pain
without using prescriptive therapy, muscle relaxers and opiates. If you put
your body in balance, if you get enough water, if you get the right nutritional
products, you can get the right foods in your system, it can really help with pain
control and one of the biggest problems with pain control is all of the fatigue
associated with it because it takes an enormous amount of energy to be in pain.
Now the best treatments that you haven't heard about, the natural herbs or
vitamins, regenerative injection therapy, vitamin infusion therapy, oxidative
medicine, ultraviolet therapy are covered in our other videos but there are other
solutions than a prescription for chronic pain.
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