Beware Pills & Potions!
By James Keith
“I’m sorry, there is nothing more we can do for you!”
Chilling words to anyone suffering from the pain of arthritis and rheumatism. Yet, they are words that should never be uttered by any doctor or hospital consultant. Why? Simply, because they are untrue. Why? because there is probably someone, somewhere, that has the answer to solving the problem of chronic inflammatory pain.
Although allopathic (conventional) medicine has made great strides in curing many ailments, it could be argued that it has still a long way to go in the effective treatment of arthritis and rheumatism. It could also be said that the reason for this is that there is too much attention paid to drug related treatment regimes and not enough or hardly any notice taken of natural treatments and remedies, of which there a many.
Faced with the prospect of a lifetime of pain, based on the “Nothing we can do” statement, many patients adopt a self-treatment regime, grasping at virtually any type of pill and potion they can get their hands on. Often as not, they spend hundreds, even thousands of hard earned dollars to no avail. Worse still, they may even fall into the hands of the many natural health charlatans who are only too pleased to promise them the world, take their money, and deliver nothing!
One of the advantages of a natural healing regime is that it is usually based on the fact that the body always endeavours to reach a state of equilibrium. Bearing this in mind, all it needs is a helping hand - to be pointed in the right direction!.
Of course, this isn’t easy, for it requires the skill of a specialist practitioner, and most of all - the single-minded co-operation of the patient.
It ha been proven time without number that many patients respond to holistic methods of treatment (treating the whole body). The cause of a chronic health problem must be found and addressed before any progress can be made. If the cause is discovered and treated, it goes without saying that there will be no symptoms - simple as that!
Take the history of one of my patients, for example. This 64 year old lady consulted me as an allopathic” no hoper”. She had suffered from chronic rheumatic pain for nearly twenty years, She was considerably overweight because walking and exercising was greatly restricted. Her diet was in a sorry state. She was very depressed and could see no light at the end of the tunnel.
Believe it or not, she was no different from other patients I had seen over the years. Be that as it may, I discovered that her health problem started when her partner was killed in a road traffic accident. Her happy and contented world crashed all around her and she felt under considerable mental strain. She was a typical example of how the mind can affect the body in no uncertain terms.
Although it took some time, I managed to get her thinking positively and taught her how to come to terms with her grief and physical condition - this was the first stage of her treatment, for without that there was no point in even attempting to treat her body. A dietary regime was mapped out and other complimentary remedies prescribed.
Over the following months, her weight began to drop and the muscular pains began to subside. She became more active. To her, the future began to look much brighter. She now had hope in her heart instead of gloom and doom. Two years on from the start of her treatment she has still the odd, brief niggle in a few muscles and joints, they are very brief and she can live with them. Her weight is normal and she is able to get out and about, meet new friends and enjoy herself.
In nearly forty years in practice, I have found that there is virtually always something that can be done to help a patient improve their condition - no matter how small. I firmly believe that unless the cause of a chronic health problem is found, there can be no effective cure!
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Beware Pills & Potions
By James Keith. MRNT.LMPA
James Keith. All Rights Reserved.
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