Arthritis. Natural treatment and cure.

The information in this page about arthritis, natural medicine and treatment is NOT a sales pitch for any drug, supplement, herbal formula or even an alleged magic potion from an exotic faraway land.

Food is always best medicine

No chemical drugs or herbal concoctions. Just the right diet for treating and curing arthritis. Learn how.

What is Arthritis?

Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints. According to western medicine, Arthritis is an auto immune disease that is a response triggered by an unknown cause. In the advanced stages or arthritis, joint deformation develops leading to severe pain attacks and variable degrees of movement disabilities. Arthritis is often associated with GI disturbances like constipation, kidney troubles and often high blood pressure.

Traditional Arthritis treatments

In western medicine there is no drug cure for Arthritis, arthritis is considered incurable, only pain killers with much side effects. Read about the drug VIOXX.

Available Arthritis treatments can be classified as medicine of the first degree among the seven levels of medicine. The current Arthritis medications are expensive, not offering a cure and have harmful side effects.

Arthritis and the drug Vioxx

The manufacturer of arthritis drug Vioxx (rofecoxib), announced the voluntary, worldwide recall of Vioxx after clinical trials confirmed previous studies linking Vioxx to serious cardiovascular problems, including heart attack and stroke. For more information: http://www.vioxxnews.com .

Arthritis in eastern medicine

Arthritis is an extreme YIN (expansive) illness that is most likely triggered by a yet-unknown microbe. In natural medicine there is no such thing as an auto-immune illness; the human body is too marvelously refined to attack itself. You can read more about the relation between Arthritis and YIN and YANG in the seven laws of the universe and in What is macrobiotics.

All Arthritis patients have exhausted kidneys (a sign of yin illness), most likely caused by an insidious long term infection. This long term infection leads to kidney exhaustion and toxins being deposited in the joints.

Arthritis natural alternative treatment and cure

Food is best medicine. With the right diet Arthritis is completely curable but existing joint deformations are only partially repairable in time. However, an arthritic patient can stop the progress of Arthritis and will get a complete pain relief in time. Depending on how far these deformations have developed and on the degree to which an arthritic patient adheres to the prescribed diet, joint deformation is partially reversible. It is important to know which foods an arthritis patient should eat to eliminate any long standing infection and what foods to eat to alleviate arthritis joint pains. As the diet gradually eliminates any infection in the body, joint and kidney relief from Arthritis begins to take effect slowly but surely. With time, Arthritis is curable with the proper foods.

Arthritis and macrobiotics

Most people have come to believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. To cure Arthritis you do not have to eat Japanese foods. You have to first understand the principles of natural balance explained in macrobiotics in order to understand what eating and living habits have led you to develop Arthritis. Macrobiotics will also help you determine what local foods you will have to eat in order to cure Arthritis.

Read If macrobiotics means eating locally grown foods, why are we eating Japanese foods?

If you are an arthritis patient and tried macrobiotics (particularly the #7 diet) but found it did not work for you, then the foods you have selected are not appropriate for your condition. Please read: The standard macrobiotic diet does not work for some people. Why?

Arthritis and the food pyramid

It is true that food is best medicine for arthritis. But some foods help arthritis and some make it worse. The food pyramid is only a general guideline and does not provide any specific information on the natural treatment of arthritis.

Arthritis vitamin and mineral supplements

Food is best medicine. With a carefully designed diet plan for arthritis, there is really no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some vitamin and mineral supplements can have adverse side effects on an arthritis patient when taken randomly or in large doses. It is particularly important to stay away from cod liver oil for arthritis patients as they will make their condition worse. And beware of alleged miracle cures in far away lands.

Consultation for Arthritis and more ...

Are you skeptical of this treatment and cure for arthritis? This is natural, but please read: back to the roots.

This is not a sales pitch for an expensive herbal concoction or an exotic supplement. Principles explained above are the laws of nature, and illness is simply the cumulative result of violating these laws. Even Hippocrates said: Thy food shall be thy remedy. It is also mentioned in the Chinese book of internal medicine: What can not be cured with medicine, can only be cured with food. Food really is your best medicine if the illness is Arthritis or almost anything else.

If you decide to treat Arthritis with the right diet, you can order a consultation with us from the top of this page. We can help by providing the appropriate diet plan, and you would not be alone traveling this road! Read about what many famous western doctors said about Food is Best Medicine. And keep in mind that we offer seminars worldwide about nutrition, the art of health and macrobiotics. You can find more answers and read more about Arthritis and other illnesses and food as medicine in Frequently Asked Questions.

In addition to changing your eating habits, take some time to relax, meditate or re-charge the batteries, and read what others have discovered about this wondrous world around us.

It is particularly important when you are following a diet for curing arthritis to read about the healing crisis. If you want to read more about health, alternative and natural medicine, take a look at the list of suggested readings.

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