Michelle Schoffro Cook - Pain Erasers: The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Safe, Drug-Free Relief

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Praise for Pain Erasers

At Womans World and First for Women, our Nutrition and Health teams have been relying on Michelle Schoffro Cooks natural healing wisdom for more than a decade. Weve come to expect the very best advice grounded simultaneously in time-tested folk practices and the latest science. And yet even with those high expectations, I was surprised at the power and practicality of her newest book Pain Erasers.

Schoffro Cook explores 20 natural pain remediessome very well-known and others surprisingfirst putting them in cultural and historical context, then exploring the science that supports their benefits and finally giving highly practical advice related to making them work in the real world. Using personal experience and extensive knowledge of supporting pain remedies, she creates a comprehensive resource I can see myself turning to again and again. If you suffer from any kind of pain, you want to get your hands on this bookand the sooner the better!

Carol Brooks, editorial director of Womans World and First for Women

Yes! It is possible to reclaim an active, vibrant lifeDr. Michelle Schoffro Cook speaks from personal experience, having found the solutions that helped her manage her own debilitating pain. Pain Erasers arms readers with the latest science and effective strategies that can help mitigate pain. From an exploration of time-tested remedies to a cutting-edge look at the gut-pain theory, this comprehensive guide illustrates how to set the foundation for a healthy, pain-free body for life. Pain Erasers offers a wealth of information for the millions battling chronic painand for their doctors, too.

Maggie Jaqua, editor-in-chief of WholeFoods Magazine

PAIN ERASERS

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This book is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to serve as a substitute for professional medical advice. The author and publisher specifically disclaim any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from the use of any information contained in this book. A health care professional should be consulted regarding your specific medical situation.

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To my dear friend Dr. Robert Laquerre, DC, for your compassionate healing, the instrumental role you played in helping me to overcome severe pain, as well as for your friendship, which I value immensely

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I know pain. I know the aching, throbbing, arthritic kind. Im familiar with the bruised and burning, torn muscles variety. I know the shooting, knifing, excruciating pain of migraines, nerve damage, and body injuries. Whatever pains expression, Im familiar with its work. I suffered a severe car accident that left me with a partially severed spinal cord. The emergency room physician told me I was this close to being quadriplegic. As if that was not enough, I later experienced the unbearable agony of a broken back.

I felt constant and severe pain for many years. It nearly destroyed my life. My pain was so debilitating that I found it almost impossible to work, perform normal day-to-day functions, or have much of a life. I tried everything to which I was introduced but nothing worked well or lasted long. Pain medications should have been a welcome respite, but even prescription narcotics offered no noticeable relief. And since they were highly addictive and replete with terrible side effects, I stopped using them within a week of receiving the prescription more than twenty years ago.

On one particular occasion, I had stayed indoors, alone in the darkness of my bedroom, away from all light and noise, suffering with a migraine for nearly a week. This was a common occurrence and had been a significant part of my life for the past several years. On this day, like many others, I was desperate for the pain to end and feeling despondent that it would never be over. Eventually, I balanced my desire to race toward a solution with my need to step gingerly to avoid exacerbating the pain and headed downstairs. I wanted to look up possible emergency services. It was nearly six oclock on a Saturday evening. My husband exclaimed, Nothing will be open.

Tears running down my eyes, I knew he was right. But I needed help. I found an emergency hotline answered by a compassionate doctor, who after asking me a series of questions, advised me to come straight to his clinic. This doctor of chiropractic spent two hours running tests and X-rays, conducting manual mobility and spinal cord assessments, and showing me the various problems in my spinal cord, nerves, and more, which were contributing to my pain. The doctor didnt stop there. He explained various natural remedies, treatments, and exercises I could do to alleviate the pain. And he asked my husband if he would be willing to assist, which of course he was. So Dr. Robert Laquerre, this compassionate doctor whom I am fortunate to now call a dear friend, taught my husband additional ways to help me relieve pain.

I left Dr. Robs clinic feeling lighter, with a significant reduction in pain and a sense of freedom I hadnt known in years. I could barely hold myself together as we went back to the car. The moment I sat down, I began sobbingthis time with tears of joy. I was overwhelmed with relief that the pain had finally dissipated. Perhaps, even greater than my pleasure over the elimination of the pain was the empowerment I felt because I finally had some solutions to help me deal with the pain whenever it might return, which, given the severity of the causes of my pain, it did indeed.

But, for the first time, I had some effective pain management options, and now that I had periods without pain, or with much less pain, I was able to look deeper into the remedies Dr. Rob suggested. As I continuously improved, I was able to spend more time trying to discover other natural remedies that might help me.

Motivated by my progress and hoping to permanently end the excruciating pain that had become my life for so many years, I spent hours and hours reading up on proven natural painkillers. Before meeting Dr. Rob and starting my research, I believed that nothing in nature could be as potent as drugs, but my desperation forced me to give natural options a fair chance. And my experiences and research proved me wrong: I discovered that many of the most powerful anti-pain remedies are found in nature in the form of herbs, essential oils, and nutrients.