fibromialgia alternative

yes i heard about that as well sounds a bit painful to me.

i love social history so have read lots of articles on how they used to treat illness and do house hold chores , it was legal to grow cannibus for medical use for quite some time it was used a lot thru the war as pain relief .

Hurry before the nettles die off in winter.

Oh, I don't go out and pick my herbs...they are in capsules....

it works by beating the area with nettles cause the area to go numb after so many stings ,so capsuals wouldnt work .in the same way.

You could make nettle soup and nettle tea.

I used to go to a herbalist some years ago and asked her how vegetarians could take capsules made from gelatine and with mad cow disease around at the time. She blanched and said that she had never thought of that. Later she advertised that her capsules were Vegan.

However Tina,

I thought that consuming the nettle purifies the blood.  Nettle tea may help in the same way.  But then, what will that do for reumatism?  I don't know.

hi joy i cant see that hun because rhematisium is aches and pains i v never heard of all the symptoms of fibro linked to rhematisium .

i stand corrected if i am wrong ,my nan had rhematisium she used to ache all the time she used winter green oinment .for her pain.

the gypsies swear by nettles they are apparently rich in iron .

cleaner blood healthy you i suppose is thinking behind it .

A friend in America used to rub peanut oil into his mothers joints. Now he rubs it into his own.

Yes, I've used peanut oil on my knee and also olive oil....and coconut oil....our joints need oils. Even ingesting a tsp of olive oil and or coconut oil daily. I've been out of peanut oil and peanuts can be fungal so watch my consumption of peanuts.

We need oils in our bodies and too many cut back on oils and consume too much carbs and sugars...those are worst for our joints.

funny thing is i had been rubbing coconut oil in to my skin as a body moisteriser and noticed that my knees were less painful but i never connected the two just thought that the supplements etc were starting to work . might just do my knees on a regurlar basis cant do any harm can it.

I'm keen on the coconut oil idea especially as I've read it helps with dementia as well.  

Denise, I've followed the weston a price group for many years, we had a chapter in santa monica and I went to the monthly meetings...the leader of the group would bring in tubs of organic CO and sell it to folks who brought their own glass jars....the price foundation is huge in the oils research field and they promote CO as it can help so much, thyroid for one too.

Price folks are NOT into the cholesterol fear that abounds....you can find WAP links and read the history of this organization. J

Speaking of dementia, a friend who deals with CFS/ME sent me info on the benzos and alzheimers connection....she was taking a low doese for sleep, but got off it.

its good stuff i get the one that dosent smell or taste of coconut so you can cook and fry and bake with it. and its a fab moisterisers to .

i have read a lot on coconut oil it has apretty impresive pedigree

I've been using CO for a lotta years and some brands hardly taste like coconut and when I cook with CO which is a lot CO taste is not there....wish it were as I really enjoy coconut.

well if your not intolarant to peanuts then i cant see it could do any harm so why not give it a go.cant loose anything .