Chronic Pain conditions are an increasing problem in the United States. And while the discussion still rages concerning whether or not chronic pain should be managed as an independent condition or just a sign of a different problem it is obvious that pain managing has become a booming sector of the healthcare industry.
Consequently, the use of pharmaceutical drugs for pain control has also attained an all time high point. Drugs like Oxicontin, Vicodin as well as methadone, are front page news in causing Americas most recent drug predicament, as a result, the usage of cocaine and heroin have also attained levels not seen in this country in thirty yrs.
Owing to the economic and scientific phenomena of the pharmaceutical development of the 20th century, thousands of yrs. of knowledge were abruptly discarded. Herbal medicine has safely and efficiently treated pain for millenniums, and is far safer than the synthesized, processed medications that today’s physicians seem to be all too eager to hand out like so much candy.
In the field of alternative medicine, there are numerous forms of natural pain management that are in truth, the source of where lots of of our oh-so-well-liked pharmaceutical drugs come from.
Codeine and morphine are opium derivatives that may be useful but are also extremely addictive, and even aspirin is a derivative of willow bark. Scores of other plants have been used in natural pain management since olden times, such as lavender and chamomile for minor pain issues and these plants have the additional advantage of also assisting with the emotional element of pain such as apprehension and difficulty sleeping. Plants like henbane and mandrake are so useful that they are even used extremely effectively throughout labor to ease the pain of childbirth.
Some wonderful and powerful herbal medicine can also be found in the spice cabinet. Spices like turmeric, and ginger are 2 of the most powerful anti- inflammatories on earth. These plants are natural COX-2 inhibitors; they are the alternative medicine answer to the popular pharmaceutical drugs Celebrex and Vioxx. In the middle east, India and all over Asia where the diets are heavy in spices like to turmeric, and ginger and cayenne, where life is also far less well-located then our own, people have a far less incidence of arthritis and persistent back pain, and continue to work very labor intensive jobs such as farming and agriculture work even into their nineties.
There has continuously been an accepted school of thinking in allopathic medicine that it is all right to damage one segment of the body to heal another, thus even everyday over the counter NSAID pain relievers such as acetaminophen and ibuprofen, can bring about long term injury, acetaminophen to the liver and ibuprofen to the kidneys, in natural pain management many plants, roots, barks, and other herbs not only antistetic in nature but they are in addition anti-inflammatory and anti-spasmodic as well, and herbal medicine is kinder on the system and is more synergistic with the body allowing for superior assimilation of the necessary constitutes.
So you see that alternative medicine goes beyond the normally accepted ideal of treating just the symptoms and goes farther to treat many of the basic causes as well as some of the other components involved in persistent pain conditions.
More and more people are turning to herbal healing methods to treat medical problems while alleviating harmful side effects posed by chemical pharmaceuticals. These methods have been used and confirmed effective, for 1000,s of yrs..
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