Waleed - Curing Arthritis without Drugs: A Natural Way to Manage Joint Pains

Curing Arthritis without Drugs

A Natural Way to Manage Joint Pains

Muhammad Waleed Farag

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It gives me great pleasure to present this treatise to men and women of all ages to acquaint them with basic facts of arthritis which attacks them suddenly without a warning. I believe that whosoever reads this book which is based on sound scientific knowledge and findings of experts shall greatly benefit from it in controlling his suffering. I have presented here various options which are available for the treatment and curing of joint inflammation which causes joint pains. During the last decade great advances have been made in the treatment of these afflictions. We also anticipate further big advances in their treatment particularly after the establishment of conclusive proofs that intakes of drugs whether orally or through injections or by way of surgery cause certain side effects which increase with the intake of more drugs. Here we warn that intake of large quantities of medicines and their interchange produces side effects which manifest in the form of joint pains.

Joint pains affect a persons temperament, activity and body movements to perform his normal daily business. This disability is detrimental to national economy because of patients inability to perform his functions properly and the necessity of his frequent absence from work.

The patient feels pain in his joints because of their inflammation and inflammation is due to different and complex causes. Some may think that advanced age is the sole reason of these afflictions with their different names. Others may attribute them to a decrease in secretion of certain chemical substances by the body. Disturbance of a persons immune system in certain circumstances may cause such afflictions. Similarly, heredity may be a cause and though scientific findings have not confirmed heredity as a causative factor this much is certain that a baby born of a mother afflicted with this disease will show the symptoms of this disease during his childhood in the form of pains or other suffering in different organs of his body.

The future is full of hope that the patient can recover and lead a normal life. The twentieth century witnessed a considerable advance in the treatment of joint pains. So no patient should despair of a cure and think that he will pass the rest of his life sitting or in a wheel-chair. The future is in your hands. What is in store will eliminate the sufferings of past and present. It is up to you whether you conquer your disease or allow your disease to conquer you

Here we shall guide you with facts you need to understand your condition to be able to enjoy your life without pains, God willing. Do you know that out of sixty million people of Great Britain eight million persons are suffering from arthritis but only one out of five ever visits the physician. Similarly, more than 50 million American suffer from various forms of arthritis and it is listed as number one cause of disability in the US. Certain types of pain are associated with a particular age and women suffer more from them than men. The joints which are most affected by inflammation and pain are wrists, knees, thighs, ankles and the vertebral column.

All that a physician can do for you is to provide relief from pain. But there are a number of latest methods to treat the causes of these pains which include self-regulation, nutrition, physical exercises, breathing, naturopathy and others. These we will discuss in detail in the coming pages.

Muhammad Waleed Farag

Table of Contents

Arthritis [from Greek arthro=joint+itis=inflammation] is a general term that refers to more than 100 kinds of diseases that involve complex inflammatory responses that affect the musculoskeletal system of the human body. It refers to the inflammation of any one or more joints of the body which causes joint pain, stiffness or loss of motion. Three of the most prevalent kinds of arthritis are: Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis and gouty arthritis. The first involves the infection of the bones which leads to their deformity and degeneration. Rheumatic arthritis is the most prevalent and most risky. Its exact cause has still not been discovered even though infectious agents such as viruses, bacteria and fungi have long been associated with it. It is also called reactive rheumatism because of the reaction of the immune system of the human body to certain infections from the environment when this misdirected immune system attacks the bodys own tissues thus causing the inflammation of the joints and sometimes affecting other organs like the lungs and the eyes as well.

The dominant belief that only old persons particularly those in their sixties suffer from this disease is wrong. This disease may strike nine out of every ten persons. It can affect persons of any age the children, the young and even a foetus in its mothers womb, if mother is suffering from arthritis. In this case the new born inherits the disease. In a majority of people its usual symptoms are pains of the joints, stiffness of the joints, fatigue, lack of appetite, swelling of muscles, low-grade fever, general debility, lack of mobility and pains may become chronic and intense or their intensity may vary from day to day. And likewise it affects ones ability to work or engage in ones interests and hobbies. We, therefore, advise that whenever a person feels pain from the inflammation of any one of his joints or feels that this or that joint is not functioning well he must engage in some light exercises which will help the affected joint to recover its natural functioning. It is most important that you should be aware of the limitations of your body and its capacity and not to burden it with what is unbearable to it. So avoid putting too much pressure on any joint or subjecting it to too much activity. Permanent pain relief can only be obtained if one takes recourse to alternative natural remedies like cold fomentation of a hot or inflamed or swollen joint which is helpful in many cases as we will see later.

There goes a proverb that if you have any problems consult the experienced. Therefore, I shall begin this discourse with a recollection of my personal experiences which began years ago when I felt pain in my left ankle which made it difficult for me to walk even short distances. That happened during my stay in London in 1990. I visited my private physician who conducted an X-Ray of both my left and right feet for a comparison and identification of the cause of my pain. Then he advised me some analgesics and pain-relieving creams. But that treatment had no effect for months so he gave me injections of cortisone which cured me of my pain for some years but then I began feeling pain in my other joints during 2000.

Then pain appeared in the joint of my right leg. I took it lightly and thought that it was a passing phenomenon. I kept my patience thinking that pain will disappear with passage of time. But one year passed taking analgesics for pain relief. But pain wore me down, made my life bitter, sometime preventing me from transacting my routine business and sometimes even curbing my movements. Throughout the year I kept on taking many drugs on the advice of my physician, including some for lowering the blood pressure, some for reducing cholesterol in blood and others for the treatment of stomach acidity and its extension to the oesophagus. The latter caused intermittent coughing during night depriving me of full and sound sleep which left me exhausted in the morning. While I was taking all these medicines I felt that the pain in my right knee was exacerbating. Suddenly one day I collapsed completely and I feared that my heart will stop and my life will end. My colour changed to that of a dying man. But by the grace of God my son was present at home at that time. He called for an ambulance which came instantly and took me to a hospital not far away from my home. There the necessary first-aid was given to me and medical tests were conducted. That took around several hours during which my blood was examined twice and my cardiogram was taken twice to make sure of the results. Reports could neither explain nor give any reason for my sudden collapse. They advised me to come back to the hospital immediately whenever I felt a sudden collapse or felt extreme discomfort. They referred me to my personal physician whom they had informed of what happened to me. When I was a pharmacologist and a professor and head of the department of pharmacology and pharmaceuticals at the College of Pharmacy of Cairo University and in England where my specialization was in the compounding of drugs by virtue of my profession I used to read and browse through a lot of medical publications to find out the descriptions and specific instructions regarding all those medicines which I had been taking to cure my disease. From these publications I gathered that the medicines I had been using produced symmetric side effects. This meant that the more medicines I took the more side effects they produced. I also found that all of them without exception pointed to the persistence of pains of joints, bones and the muscles besides other side effects. When I feel no relief from first-aid and minute medical examinations I requested my personal physician to visit me at my home the next day and to take me to the hospital. The date was in September, 2001. After holding scientific consultations with my physician about the side effects produced by different medicines which I was taking and which were causing joint pains, particularly the hypertension lowering drug Bendrofluazide [since renamed as Bendrofluonethiazide] which had caused sudden collapse in my case as with many others. Ultimately, with the concurrence of my physician I stopped taking all the drugs prescribed to me. If they could be cause of my joint pain may be discontinuation of their intake improves my condition.