Snake Oil for Aching Joints

At this point she began to explore an amazing array of treatments and dietary schemes. There were liver detoxifiers, intestinal detoxifiers, antiparasite formulas, live bacteria treatments, pancreas extracts, chelated minerals, and organic juice regimens. Then there were the herbal preparations, everything 

While most of these treatments are on a very shaky scientific footing, desperate people still try them. History has shown that when scientific medicine leaves a vacuum, a host of alternative practitioners will rush in to fill it. These people claim to have the answers that have somehow eluded mainstream researchers. Such as the benefits of the Harmony Token, a colored disk you wear around your neck its manufacturer claims that it resupplies minerals, vitamins, and amino acids with the color that has been stripped away by exposure to electromagnetic radiation. Our bodies, apparently, do not recognize these colorless substances and, as a consequence, our immune systems are weakened. The Harmony Token utilizes 2,800 colors to rebuild and repair the body at the cellular level and allows victims of rheumatoid arthritis to resume normal lives. Testimonials proclaim the disk s astonishing powers it improves gas mileage and reduces car emissions it makes racehorses run faster it cures migraines. It also makes me wonder about people s sanity. 

Lucy could have also tried the remedy described in an amazing book called The Incredible Proven Natural Miracle Cure that Medical Science Has Never Revealed. Let me reveal it to you urine. Your own. All you have to do is take one to two drops daily, and feel your arthritis disappear. In extreme cases it has to be injected. If you re queasy about consuming urine, 

Researchers have attempted to do serious studies of some unusual arthritis treatments, such as the traditional raisins-in-gin remedy. The idea is to soak some raisins in gin for seven days and eat nine daily. A researcher at the University of North Texas has looked into this, and he maintains that it brings people with arthritis significant relief. He uses ninety-proof gin and has discovered that while soaking the raisins longer makes no difference, increasing the dose does. Maybe the remedy s effectiveness is due to anti-inflanunatory compounds in the juniper berries from which the gin is made. Or maybe it s the alcohol. The researcher is now prescribing thirty-six gin-soaked raisins a day, and he insists that his arthritis sufferers feel much happier. I bet they do. 

We haven t yet reached the bottom of that huge barrel filled with alternative remedies for arthritis. We haven t broached aromatherapy, imagery ( Just picture the pain flowing out of 

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