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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Arthritis, Gout, Rheumatism Herbal Remedy

(From the book, “Natural Healing With Herbs,” by Humbart Santillo, BS, MH; 1991)

 
Avoid meats, dairy products, coffee, tea, tobacco, and refined foods.  A three day fruit fast monthly will aid in cleansing the blood and joints.  Eating just grapes for two weeks is excellent to overcome this condition.  Clean the bowels weekly with an enema.

Drink distilled water and fresh juices made from carrot, orange, kale, wheatgrass, parsley and apple.  Juice one raw potato and dilute with 25% distilled water or vegetable broth for a morning cocktail.

Two ounces of liquid chlorophyll can be taken daily mixed with apple or carrot juice.


A.                 Internal:  Mix the following herbs together:
                

                              4 parts chaparral

                              2 parts yucca

                              1 part dandelion

                              1 part sassafras

                              1 part prickly ash bark

                              1 part black cohosh

                              1 part ginger root

                              1 part burdock root


      Powder herbs and put into #00 capsules.  Take two, three times each day.


B.                 External:  All purpose liniment:

 
                              1 quart rubbing alcohol

                              ½ ounce oil of eucalyptus

                              ½ ounce of wintergreen


           Mix all ingredients together.  Use for arthritis, rheumatism, sprains, backaches, etc.


C.                Ginger Fomentation

For painful joints, grate five ounces of fresh ginger root and simmer in two quarts of distilled water for ten minutes.  Use as a  fomentation – dip natural fiber cloth into hot liquid and cover the  body part.  Cover this with heavy wool blankets and keep heat in.  Repeat procedure when fomentation cools off.


D.                External:  Fomentation for pains, sprains, and rheumatism:

 
                  2 parts ginger root

                  1 part slippery elm

                  1 part cayenne

                  1 part lobelia


      Make into a fomentation and apply to affected area.


E.                External:  Dry brush the skin daily and get plenty of exercise. Massage and  spinal manipulations will aid in circulation.
 

F.         Hydrotherapy:  Morning and evening take alternating warm and  cool showers for ten minute durations.  Take warm, whole baths three to four times a week.

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