Showing posts with label back pain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label back pain. Show all posts

Sunday, January 3, 2010

How to Cure Back Pain by Raising Your Immune System

If you want to learn how to cure back pain, it’s best to tackle the problem by raising your immune system. There is no medicine on earth which will cure back pain. But the best natural medicines will so raise your immunity that it can, once again, do its job of curing you.

By any measure, the fastest way to raise your immune system is by the accurate use of homeopathic medicines. This is how homeopathy works, rather than by curing your back pain or other troubles.

The homeopathic medicine Natrum muriaticum (or Nat mur for short) is a very accurate medicine for use with back pain when you get relief from lying on a hard surface or pressing your back into something hard, like a door frame. If you sit in a chair or drive, it must have good, hard support.

The area affected is often your lower back, but not exclusively. You can often stoop without trouble, but straightening up can be painful.

Your immunity is designed to work efficiently for you at all times, preventing and curing areas of ill health. But blockages are created from time to time, by unresolved emotional issues. These stop it from working as it should.

Nat mur is one of the most common medicines when someone has suffered a grief and not been able to resolve it. Instead, they have withdrawn and become closed. This appears unfriendly to the onlooker, but it is a protective mechanism. If you are closed emotionally, you are less liable to be hurt again. And you couldn’t cope with another episode as you’re still struggling with the first grief.

So if your back pain has seemingly come out of the blue, with no known cause such as over-use or injury, but you can recall that it started after you lost someone near and dear to you, then this may be the most suited medicine to cure your back pain.

In learning how to cure back pain, you will learn how to raise your immune system, which means more problems will be resolved than just your back. It becomes very good value, as you get more than you bargained for.

In this case, it would have been the unresolved grief which created the blockage which prevented your immune system doing its job. The Nat mur works by removing the blockage. So not only does your physical pain disappear, so too does your emotional pain.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Lower Back Pain Management

Pain is incredibly debilitating. It takes over your whole life.

But back pain seems to be the worst, especially lower back pain. Perhaps that’s because your back supports you in everything you do, so pain there permeates everywhere.

Whatever the reason, you need to do something to manage life on a day to day basis.

Analgaesics and pain killers may (or may not) help with the pain, but they don’t do your liver a lot of good.

So what are the alternatives?

Surgery sounds risky and expensive.

Let’s look at what you’re not being told. Put your belief system on hold for a moment, while you explore a possibility.

One of the symptoms that occur for a lot of back pain sufferers is the pain on the slightest movement. Lying down in bed, absolutely motionless, provides the most relief.

Lying on your back, and so putting pressure on it, also affords you some relief.

But you can’t live like that.

The origin of your pain may have been over straining your back, or even an injury.

But one thing for sure is that the pain makes you irritable, if not down right angry.

This is not uncommon. Pain tends to shorten your fuse. But you find your family avoid you like the plague, which is just as you want it.

If any of this seems to fit what you have, then you’re in luck.

As I say, suspend your belief system. If you get relief, who cares where it comes from, as long as it was ethically obtained?

The homeopathic remedy Bryonia has an affinity with any pain which is much worse for the slightest movement of the offending part. Lower back pain seems to fit it to a T, although any back pain, with the same symptoms, is likely to get relief.

So, to recap, for Bryonia to be suitable for your lower back pain, you need to have the following symptoms:

  • pain which is much worse for any movement
  • the pain is better while motionless
  • the pain is easier with pressure applied
  • the pain makes you irritable, even angry

Another, less important symptom for Bryonia to work for your lower back pain, is that you don’t like heat on it, the pain is better with cold applied, rather than heat.

Homoeopathic remedies can be obtained from most health shops, many pharmacies, practicing homeopaths and homeopathic pharmacies.

Depending on how long you have had your lower back pain will determine how long you need to take the remedy. But you should see an improvement with only a few doses. That will guide you.

It is possible, that this remedy will go a long way to resolve your pain, but not all the way.

This is when you need to consult with a homeopath.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Are You Having Difficulty Managing Your Back Pain?

Back pain can be terribly debilitating. Your back tends to take a hammering from daily life, from bad posture to old beds, from sitting in a vehicle too long to lifting heavy items inappropriately.

Backs come in for a lot of grief. It’s a human tendency to abuse something until it fails, then you wish you hadn’t!

But of all your body parts, managing everyday life with a painful back must rank among the most troublesome.

The key to looking after your back, and so prevent back pain, is to listen to your body. If you’re doing some manual labour which involves a lot of lifting, you need to stop when your body tells you it’s had enough, regardless of whether the job is finished or not.

If you listen to your body, you’ll rarely comes to any harm. Trouble is, you have probably got out of the habit of doing this. Instead you listen to the clock or getting something finished.

That’s great advice, but isn’t it a bit like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted?

Yes and no. If you’re aware of why something has happened, at least you’ll know not to do it, next time.

So lets get back to your current back pain.

The vast majority of back pain is caused by some form of injury to the soft tissue (muscles or tendons). When you sit in a car or vehicle too long, you overstrain your back muscles, as it tries to support you in an unnatural position.

If you do too much lifting, you can see you have injured your supporting back muscles.

Injury is not necessarily something that happened suddenly.

If you don’t address this problem, in an energetic way, by healing it on a deep level, it becomes compounded over the years.

Whilst living off pain killers can help you function, they do nothing for your liver or for your back pain in the long run.

One of the main symptoms of back pain is actually stiffness. Especially on rising from sitting or lying for some time, such as first thing in the morning. But once you get over that initial painfully stiff first few steps, you work a bit looser and feel better.

For a while.

But then the pain starts again and you have to sit or lie down and the cycle repeats itself.

This is known as the rusty gate syndrome. A rusty gate hinge is very stiff to get moving, but will generally get better on continued movement.

If this seems to fit you to a T, do another couple of checks before I let you in on an amazing (and totally natural) remedy.

Everyone is different about how they respond to heat and cold. Some find putting a cold pack on an injury helps the pain a lot. I’m not talking about ice here, which tends to numb the pain for virtually anyone. I’m talking about your personal preference.

Other people prefer heat, or a hot pack, which relieves the pain a bit. Hot showers can be heaven.

So the checklist goes like this

  • you’ve injured or strained your back in some way, possibly years ago
  • without pain killers, your back is predominantly stiff, with some improvement on initial movement
  • generally, heat improves the pain

If this sounds like you, the homeopathic remedy Rhus tox is likely to help your back a great deal. It may even cure it.

At the very least, you will probably be able to come off your analgaesics, much to your livers relief.

As it has no side effects, and it will do no harm if you try it out for a short period, it’s worth trying, isn’t it?