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Cherries, natural remedy for Gout & Arthritis say Natural News

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Natural News say cherries are proven to be the most powerful medicine in the world for eliminating gout and reducing the pain and inflammation of arthritis. As you’ll see in the collection of quotes about cherries, gout and arthritis (below), cherries are extremely safe, effective and fast-acting for eliminating swelling and pain. Eating just a few cherries a day keeps uric acid levels in check, preventing any recurrence of gout.

What’s a good source for cherries? In addition to buying local organic cherries at natural grocers near you, you can also get cherry concentrates and cherry extracts from a variety of companies. As it turns out, even cooked cherry juice does the trick just as well as raw cherries!

The following are some recommendations from their article.

My top recommended sources for cherry products include Brownwood Acres / www.FruitFast.com (which offers an amazing array of fruit concentrate bars and capsules) and www.Vitacost.com (which offers various cherry extract products). See search results here: http://www.vitacost.com/productResu…

No, I don’t have any financial ties with these companies. I just recommend their products. The FruitFast company, in fact, offers fruit softgel capsules, bars, liquids, concentrates and premium dried fruit, too, so you can always have cherries with you (even when traveling!). They’ve even introduced CherryFlex for dogs! http://www.brownwoodacres.com/pet_p…

The Bear Fruit Bar (www.MorFoods.com) is also a great source of not only cherry concentrates, but other potent fruits as well.

If you suffer from gout or arthritis, you owe it to yourself to try the therapeutic use of cherries. I asked my mother to try cherries for her gout and arthritis and it worked wonderfully, easing all the usual symptoms to where she no longer had to take any other kind of medication or pain relief.

Read the quotes from this Natural News article listed below to learn astonishing facts about cherries and gout…

No attacks of gouty arthritis occurred on a non restricted diet in all cases, as a result of eating about one-half pound of fresh or canned cherries per day. One doctor said: A patient of mine had heard about cherries for gout. He was, in fact, a sufferer of gout himself. He decided to give the cherry therapy a try. After following this patient’s progress over the past two months, I can only say the results have been nothing less than spectacular. The patient has ceased taking the prescribed medication for his gout and has an unlimited diet. This alone should make any gout sufferer take notice.
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He described how he had cured his crippling gout, which had confined him to a wheelchair, by eating six to eight cherries every day. Continuing to eat cherries, he claimed, kept painful gout away. He also cited twelve others who had cured their gout by eating cherries or drinking cherry juice. Soon afterward Prevention Magazine added to the mystery and mystique by publishing Dr. Blau’s advice to use cherries as gout medicine.
- Miracle Cures: Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Healing Powers of Herbs, Vitamins, and Other Natural Remedies by Jean Carper
- Available on Amazon.com

For those with gout, life is just a bowl of cherries. Really, substances in cherries called anthocyanocides, are very effective at lowering uric acid levels, says Walter Crinnion, N.D., a naturopathic doctor and director of Healing Naturally in Kirkland, Washington. How many cherries should you eat? According to traditional healing lore and very preliminary research, eating anywhere from 1/2 cup to 1 pound (about 70) of cherries a day may help people with gout, says Laurie Aesoph, N.D., a naturopathic doctor in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
- Alternative Cures: The Most Effective Natural Home Remedies for 160 Health Problems by Bill Gottlieb
- Available on Amazon.com

One morning he read a news item about the use of cherries for gout, and since there were some sour cherries in the freezer, he began eating a dessert dish of them at lunch and dinner. The swelling in his knee went down, and the stiffness was gone in three days. He continued eating two dishes of the cherries daily and has had no further attacks of gout in over a year.
- Miracle Medicine Herbs (Reward Books) by Richard Melvin Lucas
- Available on Amazon.com

In a 1950 study, 12 patients with gout ingested one-half pound of cherries per day (or an equivalent amount of cherry juice), with no other dietary restrictions. In all 12 cases, serum uric-acid levels fell to normal, and the patients had no further attacks of gout. Cherry juice appeared to be as effective as whole cherries. While most of the results were obtained with black cherries, sweet yellow and red sour cherries were also effective. We have been impressed by the effectiveness of cherry juice as a treatment for acute gout.
- Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient’s Guide to Health and Healing by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
- Available on Amazon.com

Physicians prescribed cherries for epilepsy. In the 1920s in the United States, physicians touted black cherries to cure kidney stones and gall bladder ailments, and red cherries to remove phlegm. In 1950 Ludwig Blau, Ph.D., writing in Texas Reports on Biology and Medicine, claimed that he cured his crippling gout that confined him to a wheelchair by eating six to eight cherries each day. As long as he ate cherries, he avowed, the gout stayed away.
- The Food Pharmacy: Dramatic New Evidence That Food Is Your Best Medicine by Jean Carper
- Available on Amazon.com

According to research from Michigan State University, if gout attacks, chew on some cherries. Dr. Muralee Nair, lead author of the study, suggests eating about 20 or so cherries a day to reduce the swelling and ache of a sudden gout attack. “Daily consumption of cherries,” Nair says, “has the potential to reduce pain related to inflammation, arthritis, and gout.” Some researchers think cherries might work as well as drugs, without the side effects.
- Eat and Heal (Foods That Can Prevent or Cure Many Common Ailments) by the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing
- Available on Amazon.com

I continued eating the sour cherries during their season and had relief the entire time. When I stopped eating them, the pain returned. I usually freeze cherries every year for pies, but instead of making pies, I resumed eating my frozen cherries. Doctors, family and lay people as well all laughed at me, but I still maintain that cherries were my cure for arthritis. Since that time if I ever get an attack I head for the freezer and my cherries. Mrs. M.G. reports: “After hearing about them, I began eating red, sour cherries for my gout”.
- Miracle Medicine Foods by Rex Adams
- Available on Amazon.com

Bing and Royal Ann cherries are both sweet, but Bings have deeply colored juice, whereas the juice of the other variety is colorless. Sour cherries – the ones most favored for pies, tarts and turnovers are similarly divided: morellos have colored juice and amarelles colorless liquid. The very popular tart cherry, Montmorency, is light to dark red with red juice. Sweet cherries are available from May through August, while sour cherries go from late June to mid-August. Nothing works better for gout than either raw sweet cherries (15 per day), cherry juice concentrate (1 tbsp).
- Heinerman’s Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs by John Heinerman
- Available on Amazon.com

By accident one day I heard about cherries for gout. I had gout, so after hearing this, I immediately bought several cans of cherries. I ate them for about a week, and all the swelling and stiffness disappeared! It was a miracle! “As long as I eat cherries, there is no pain. Exercise, walking, bicycling and no pain. I will eat cherries the rest of my life, they are fantastic!”
- Miracle Medicine Foods by Rex Adams
- Available on Amazon.com

More articles on all kinds of helpful health tips can be found at www.naturalnews.com

About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and technology pioneer with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and the environment, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies’ products. Known on the ‘net as ‘the Health Ranger,’ Adams shares his ethics, mission statements and personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org

We find a lot of helpful news on health at the above websites, tune in and see what news will give you what you are looking for to provide you with natural help for what ails you.

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Why do I need a massage tool? How can a massager help me?

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Why do I need a massage tool? How can a massager help me?

A massage tool gives you support and the ability to press not necessarily in the usual way of what comes to mind when we think of massage, with someone manipulating the muscles, rubbing, squeezing or other but to stay still with a pressure right on the uptight muscles until we can come into contact with and then by sustaining the pressure to give the muscles time to relax.

Muscles cover our bodies, of course the relaxation, tone and suppleness of them ALL will affect how the body functions and moves.

Why do our muscles hurt? Something has happened that changes its natural form and function. Something has interrupted the natural blood flow. An injury of some kind has occurred that has stressed the muscles into malfunctioning. The pain is a cry out for help and attention. Once you focus on anything, comes into your focus, you are equipped with a natural instinct to know naturally that pressing that sore place, paying attention to, always makes that place feel better.

For instance, what happens when you get a cramp in your leg muscles? What is the first thing you automatically do? That’s right, you press it and you press it hard. And soon the muscles relax and the pain disappears and the muscles natural function resumes. We already know how to turn around our conditioning, explore your possibilities.

Try it! Press a place on your body with your hand. Press your forearm, your hand, any joint, your shoulder, your foot, your stomach, anywhere. Do you find discomfort? If so continue pressing there, naturally relaxing the hard muscles or knots will release the stress. I find we are drawn to move all around ( then hold the pressure onto) the stressed area and it always feels better and you will also find freer movement.

Our tight muscles are limiting our movement. We can change that and work our muscles til there is no pain and you will discover the pleasure of health and how important it is in our emerging into our every day lives. How we feel does affect everything we do and say.

Basically your hands are not strong enough to hold pressure on a hard, uptight muscle, tendon or ligament for an unlimited amount of time. Basically you do not have enough energy to endure the time it may take to work out a stiff muscle where the blood flow has been slowed by a knotted traumatized muscle from injury of one kind or another.

There are many types of helpful tools on the market, many you have to hold using up our valuable energy. Many massagers out there are limited in there ability to work all the different muscle of the body as many places we need to go to for bodywork are deeper within the body structure.

One day sit and work your neck, soon you will be working the shoulders, the back, believe me it’s all connected and our bodies need so much work we would go broke paying a therapist as it takes so much time. There is nothing better than the human touch but a massage tool is our personal masseuse that can be called upon 24/7 and will assist in anyone’s physical program.

Of course, this is my opinion from personal experience in over 20 years of self massaging, paying attention to what is happening in my body. We can prevent maladies as well by having healthy muscular/skeletal awareness and condition with nothing in our bodies drawing our attention away from our higher creative selves.

My favorite massage tool is the Recapitulator because it does the work for you, is virtually indestructible and makes it easy to press my tight muscles for any self determined time and amount of pressure totally in my control.

The most special qualities for me are:
• the 3 different size depth penetration capabilities allowing the proper reach to surface muscles or muscles deep within the body structure or muscles around our organs that may be stressed out of shape and function and comfortably work the muscles til they relax and work as they should naturally.

• Another plus for me is the different size knob ends for a deeper more specific, pinpoint accuracy or a larger end for a time when we do not want to be so direct to the trigger point.

• Another feature is the ease with which the simple fact that gravity and your body weight gives you enough strength to press and endure that saves our personal energy by not having to hold a tool and use one set of muscles to apply pressure to another set of muscles.

• You can relax while using this Recapitulator massager and actually take you health to a deeper knowledge of what is causing our dis-ease.

• Give yourself the power back to change the manifestations that we are not happy with.

Happy Healing and please feel free to write with questions. This is an astounding source for natural health.

NOTE: What we think and say to ourselves in the here and now IS IMPORTANT. Memories and fears lock into the muscles of our bodies. And thus what we are thinking can be limiting and stopping us from being our glorious selves.

Work on it and recapitulate those old thoughts and free yourself. Watch yourself grow and become who you really are and want to be. This can affect our physical life in every way and will continue limit our movements and stunt our growth if we ALLOW that to happen. We are in control, believe in yourself.

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Best Massage Therapy fix it all tool, the Recapitulator

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Best Massage Therapy fix it all tool, the Recapitulator

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Massage Therapy Tools are a wonderful aid in finding relief of pain and discomfort, an easy way of zeroing in on the troubled areas to eliminate the CAUSE of stress. Why tools? Our bodies are in constant need of attention. Depending on how we live our lives and what we use as nourishment we can work with a tool accordingly on a daily basis without using an excess of energy, when we have the time. Even while relaxing on the sofa or in bed reading for instance, a wonderful time to also use a tool to help facilitate a speedier & deeper relaxation. It’s always available, never gets tired and no need to pay per session.

We can continually work on ourselves even if it’s in between our usual excersise or body work, massage therapy or healings by many different names, basically all have the same intention in mind, To remove stress from our bodies and recover and maintain our health.

A tool should be stable and supply a variety of options as our bodies in different areas may need another approach, longer reach for working deeper into the body surface for fleshier areas, smaller ends for pin pointing and getting in to the core of the injury, many times the pain is really deep down in there. This massage tool, the recapitulator has it all for optimum performance. We can massage or apply pressure to any given area of the body without using one set of muscles to relax another. Our fingers, elbows, knees or heal of foot can be used but we will soon grow tired and not able to continue with sustaining for the needed time to break down some of those tight, blocked muscles releiving the pain or discomfort. Many ongoing maladies can be overcome by massage therapy. You can see videos and more info by going to www.recapitulator.com I have to pass on this news, it’s a life saver!!! I highly recommend this recapitulator, it is the last tool you will ever have to buy.

So many methods to choose from, all good. But we found that the “Recapitulator” is the best tool we have found in over 20 years of research to achieve easy access to all the muscles of the body in a comfortable way while sitting or laying down using your body weight for energy so you can work on yourself for hours without getting tired. Easy to apply sufficient pressure and sustain it so the muscle actually has a chance to breakdown and relax. Do-It-Yourself Massage with the Recapitulator massager.

Called the recapitulator because on top of simply a physical manifestation of our problems, our bodies are also affected by what we think. To Recapitulate is a re-examining of old thought patterns that may be disrupting our health. When we touch a painful area, it often times will remind you of how you got this problem or injury. Many we are stopping a natural healthy flow of our energy by old thoughts. By recapitulation we can get rid of our fears & old memories and revitalize our body with new found energy that we were using up in an unhealthy way with worry, sorrow, anger, frustration, etc. Dealing with the past or future that causes us grief. This tool will help you Open up Chakras and allow the Chi to flow as it was intended for higher consciousness and well being. More information on this Alternative Medicine for Natural Healing can be found at www.nuhealth.org

Over 20 years of natural healing research and development the Recapitulator is patented and provides the ultimate design for versatile use. Do-It-Yourself massage therapy where you don’t have to use one set of muscles to relax or work on another set of muscles. You don’t have to hold this tool to massage.

Easy to use by leaning on, sitting on, laying on, or leaning into (great for chest, shoulders and stomach area while sitting forward and the weight of your body supplies enough pressure so no need to exert much energy unless you are emphasizing a depth that requires a little more pressure. Sometimes it happens that you need to press harder to get down deep enough to provide relief from muscle tension, stagnation and blockage.

What’s different about the Recapitulator? You can use it all day long without getting tired. The strong flat base board affords a good solid foundation to support as much or as little pressure as you feel comfortable with and gives you the source to a powerful aggressive approach when you need to get deep down into the body/muscles to reach the cause of your pain, discomfort or malady.

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