Herbal pain control

Post by **RegularJackass** » Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:50 pm

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Clear all of these with a doctor before using them. Use everything with caution. You never know what you're allergic to until you're having a reaction to it.

It is important to determine the cause of pain and eliminate the cause if possible. But you knew that. Very importantly, you should know that for every good doctor there are hundreds of bad ones, so be sure to get a second and third opinion. Also see http://www.witchesandsandwiches.com/for ... ?f=48&t=69 for directions on finding a good doctor. Herbal medicine is not a substitute for good medical care. If you have an allergy to any ingredients you haven't tried before, you'll have a not so good time, so be sure you try a tiny amount first before you go ham. I would also be quite remiss to not say that in my experience, prayer and asking the Angels for help, helps.

Keep a daily pain diary/log of activities. Include every potential trigger of pain that you can think of, including what you've been eating, what you've been doing, and any medicines you've been taking, and note your pain level throughout the day on a scale from 1-10. This will help you trace what causes pain flares and take the guesswork out of it because realistically speaking, most pain flares are caused by SOMETHING, but they're usually so delayed you can't trace the effect (pain) to its cause (trigger). After every couple of weeks, compile your findings into a list of "dos" and "do nots" and it'll help you long term. In fact, keeping something like this can help you take better care of yourself even if you don't have a chronic health issue.

Both conventional and natural painkillers work better when combined with things that reduce anxiety. It sounds like it's "just a mental thing" but no, it has a physical effect, trust me. Supposedly skullcap, motherwort, and passionflower reduce anxiety, but I do not have access to them and therefore can't say if they work or not. Other relaxants that I have actually used include vanilla bean or extract, lemon verbena tea, chamomile tea, and a 4-herb combination of fresh rosemary, lemon balm, lemongrass and spearmint. These do help. Combining herbal relaxants with herbal painkillers usually works fine. Watch out when combining anything herbal with anything pharmaceutical!

If you have issues absorbing B vitamins, then you may have what is called the MTHFR gene defect, which can cause pain. Other issues absorbing B vitamins can also cause pain. The Deadlock Quartet can help with that. The Deadlock Quartet: Adenosylcobalamin, l-carnitine fumarate, l-methylcobalamin, and l-methylfolate, 500 mcg each, plus magnesium and potassium to help, then ramp up the dosage on each one of the quartet until you feel better. See original source: http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.ph ... ing.21725/ Also, for those with this issue, drinking a cup or two of hot beef broth or broth from a pho restaurant can work wonders.

Here is a link to some recipes posted by people on how to make homemade pain relief salve https://www.henriettes-herb.com/faqs/medi-4-4-balm.html

For severe pain relief, marijuana is the number one safest medication as far as I know. It has the least side effects for the greatest impact, and it is nonaddictive. Yes, you heard that right. If it were legalized nationwide the opiate overdose rates would drop drastically. That said, smoking it is the least effective method of pain relief, and it is a phytoestrogen that will screw up your mental faculties and digestion over time. It can and will mess up your hormone balance. Taken over a long period of time, it can also cause severe, prolonged nausea and vomiting. Smoking it carries additional risks such as collapsed lungs. Use with caution. Topical products may be more effective than ingested ones. Ask the people at the dispensary for advice and they'll be more than happy to help. https://honestmarijuana.com/marijuana-t ... #more-1093 https://www.leafly.com https://honestmarijuana.com/how-to-make ... #more-2235 https://honestmarijuana.com/how-to-make-cannabis-oil/ https://honestmarijuana.com/weed-tea/#more-1901 https://www.alchimiaweb.com/blogen/dr-c ... bis-juice/

I do not recommend kava for pain relief. Kratom is helpful for a subset of the population but dangerous for another subset. Be extremely careful if taking it and go with the minimum dosage your first, second, and third trial. If there are any negative side effects, especially nausea, anxiety, or a feeling of "something's not right," don't take it any more and try something else.

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For mild pain relief, CBD oil may help. It works better topically for some people, diluted in oil or lotion. I use Apex brand. If you take it internally, it is best to put it underneath the tongue and wait for it to absorb.

I have had excellent results, personally, with jasmine green tea spiked with a large amount of fresh grated ginger. Your results may vary but it is likely it will help you as well.
You can also spike that tea with turmeric and a tiny pinch of cayenne.

Or you can go ahead and make golden milk
Golden Milk
For arthritis, fibromyalgia, and body pain in general
Warm all this in a stove, and whisk it together:
1 c. cow milk or coconut milk; if you use something with no fat in it like almond milk it won’t work
½ tsp turmeric
Pinch of black pepper, fresh-ground is best
¼ inch fresh ginger, peeled and grated (optional)
Pinch of cinnamon (optional)
Pinch of cardamom (optional)
Drink a cup morning and evening.

Cayenne is an unsung hero in the realm of pain control but it needs to be approached with caution. Add a tiny pinch to the tea of your choice such as green tea, peppermint tea, chamomile, whatever, and drink a cup three times a day. After one or two weeks, increase the dose to 2 tiny pinches. Keep going like this until you're taking as much as you need; up to 1/4 tsp 3x a day. This gives your stomach time to adapt and prevent the formation of ulcers. If you ignore this advice and just dump a whole tablespoon in there, well, enjoy. Too much may cause kidney damage, so be careful. Probably the safest way of ingesting hot peppers is to become a chile head. Once you've worked your way up to a lot of cayenne per day you can experiment with hot peppers in your food, which has been used for hundreds of years by many people and is probably much safer.

Gradually increasing the amount of spicy food you eat over time should help with chronic pain. This is an internalized method of what doctors normally do with capsaicin cream. It takes about half a year for your stomach to get accustomed to a level of spice that is effective. You cannot rush it or you'll wind up with stomach ulcers. A little cayenne here, some jalapenos there, add just a little to one meal a day for a while, and as you feel more comfortable with it, start adding more spicy stuff. Thai food should help you once you're fairly used to the way of the chile.

2-4 tablespoons prepared mustard taken with a meal can help with pain. Some people use this for leg cramps at night. This is particularly effective when combined with raw sliced onions and pickled jalapenos. I like eating the stuff over curly fries. It keeps moderate pain at bay for a good 3 hours. Seriously, it's that effective!

Foods or herbs that are very high in antioxidants, such as red wine, cocoa powder, dark chocolate, acai berries, and black currants, are mild painkillers with few side effects. However, cacao is rich in calcium oxalate, which must be avoided by those who form kidney stones. Of all the options listed here, cacao is probably the most effective.

For muscle pain, fresh ginger tends to be pretty good. It also helps with lower back pain. You can simmer 2-3 tbsp sliced fresh ginger in 5 c. water on the stove, covered, for 20 minutes, strain it, and either use it as a compress on the area of pain or in a hot bath. This stimulates circulation and can help with the soreness.

Dandelion-infused oil used to make a topical painkilling salve, at the Nerdy Farm Wife https://thenerdyfarmwife.com/dandelion- ... um-lotion/

Regular Jackass's Fire Coffee
Get a cup of coffee. Add 1 tbsp coconut milk, 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper, 1/8 tsp cardamom, 1/8 tsp cinnamon, and 1/8 tsp cloves

Pain relief bath or footbath
For full body pain relief, not just the skin area.
Make a ginger tea as detailed above; halve it if you're adding it to a footbath. Add it to a very hot footbath or bath along with a tiny pinch of cayenne and two pinches of turmeric (optional). Let it cool until tolerable and then enjoy.
Note: just a generous handful of sea salt in a hot footbath can also help with pain if done every day. Try it out.

Muscle relaxing topical spray:
2 tbsp magnesium flakes, 1 tbsp MSM crystals, 1/2 tsp potassium chloride, 1/4 c. water, and 1/4 tsp Lugol’s iodine in a spray bottle. Use six sprays on the abdomen daily. I get the MSM, Lugol’s, potassium chloride (salt substitute; I use NOW brand), and magnesium flakes (Ancient Minerals brand) from Amazon. It is best if you combine usage of this spray with drinking a glass of dairy or nondairy milk, to balance out electrolytes by adding calcium. Sounds weird but it does help.

Here is a recipe for an herbal oil which helps control body pain, muscular pain, and even nerve pain to a certain extent.
1/2 c. extra virgin coconut oil
1/2 c. extra virgin olive oil
OR 1 c. lotion
1/4 c. castor oil - optional but recommended
1 dropperful Apex CBD oil, regular strength - that's about 1/2 teaspoon of CBD oil, use whatever brand you like but I use that one. I used to use Charlotte's Web but Apex is superior.
Optional: 1 drop of capsaicin oil
Optional: A combination of one or more of the following essential oils, up to 1/2 tsp total: pine, frankincense, vanilla, copaiba balsam, thyme citriodora
Use as massage oil. It may be a good idea to augment this with sparing use of Biofreeze after this has absorbed.

Here is another:
Obtain 1 tsp St. John's Wort flower powder. You can get this by emptying a few capsules of St. John's Wort. Put it in a mug and pour 2/3 c. boiling water over it. Let it cool completely, then dab it on the areas of pain. Do a small patch test first. Do not ingest. Talk to your doctor about using this topically. Only works on nerve pain. Do not use on areas exposed to sunlight.

Cayenne infused olive oil
Get a stainless steel saucepan. Put 1 c. extra virgin olive oil and 1/2 to 3/4 tsp cayenne powder in it. Warm it on low (about a 2 on an electric stove) heat for 4 hours. Strain it through a metal strainer lined with a coffee filter. Once it cools it is ready to use. Put it on the areas of pain. If it turns out to be too much, wash it off with soap. Over time you can increase the amount of cayenne in this as your body adapts. Other things you can add to this oil while it is being heated include:
1 tsp St. John's Wort flower powder
1 tsp chamomile flowers, Roman or German
2 tbsp dried thyme
A good handful of eastern white pine needles

Speaking of topical pain relief, yes, Biofreeze does help quite a bit. You might also want to take a look at this stuff. https://www.mountainmagichealth.com/
Here's one I have not tried, but which has active ingredients known to work: https://www.mauiexcellent.com/volcano-oil1.html

Trance music also seems to help if you happen to like it. Or another kind of rhythmic music. Anything that can get you into a slightly altered state if you listen to it can trick your brain into feeling less pain.
Motion-tracking video games are proven to help with pain! https://www.everydayhealth.com/pain-man ... ldren.aspx

There is a technique Laurie Cabot teaches called the Crystal Countdown that is actually self-hypnosis. I HIGHLY suggest that you check it out and buy the book Power of the Witch in order to do it. It's difficult to manage, but once you get it down, you can spend time in a meditative state even if you are normally in too much pain to meditate.

Mental/psychological techniques abound for chronic pain and none of them should be taken too seriously. You can't just "think yourself" out of pain. You can certainly reduce your pain by about 1 on the pain scale with mental techniques. Use mental techniques as an adjunct to everything else. These can include mental reframing of how you feel about pain, psychologic techniques to help you cope with the emotions it gives you, meditation, journaling positive things or constructive/helpful things only, focusing on breathing into the belly instead of "chest breathing," guided meditations, and creative visualization. Of course if you're a Witch you can take that one step further and cast a spell for banishing pain, duh.
Here are some examples of mental techniques: http://princessinthetower.org/pain-reli ... vere-pain/ http://princessinthetower.org/how-pain- ... and-guilt/

Believe it or not, the Daily Healthy Habits http://www.witchesandsandwiches.com/for ... ?f=19&t=63 may help to control pain.

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