Good news for arthritis sufferers

[John S]

Oily fish is good for you (as if we didn't know already!)

 

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[severus]

Good article. I'm going to catch & eat more salmon this year, if winter ever ends.

[Vagabond]

My grandma used to say that herrings in the diet "helped oil rusty joints" and thus prevented arthritis.

 

That was in the 1940s

 

She might not have had the biochemistry right, but she certainly knew the broad picture.

 

Similarly she said "salt hardens the arteries" and nowadays the bad effect of excessive salt on high blood pressure appears on tele adverts .

 

I wonder how many sayings (about health) in folklore have their origin in centuries of observation, and are now being trotted out as "new" scientific discoveries?

 

I remember during the height of the "mad cow" scare, a professor of history wrote to the Times, saying there were records of butchers being prosecuted IN THE MIDDLE AGES for selling meat from mad cows for human consumption.

 

Also, in "I Walked by Night" - the story of a semi-literate Norfolk poacher (does that description fit anyone we know? )

there is an account of how cows fed on ground up carcasses of cattle "seemed to go mad" and staggered about.

 

The writer was referring to the mid to late eighteen-hundreds.

 

The "powers that be" in the 1990s tried to make out this was a "new" disease and could not be forseen.

 

Henry Ford was right. "History is bunk" Even when it is trying to tell us something, nobody is listening.

[SkattyKat]

I am led to believe that white vinegar/apple vinegar with honey is good for the joints too. There is a site dedicated to the vari0us uses you can put vinegar to

 

http://frugalliving.about.com/cs/tips/a/vinegar.htm

[Tony U]

But does it work for Gout

[Tony U]

But does it work for Gout

[SkattyKat]

1 tsp cider vinegar with one tsp honey three times daily helps with arthritis. It dissolves the crystal deposits of uric acid that form between joints (and also in muscles as with muscular rheumatism). Also dissolves osteophytes (bony spurs) over long periods.

 

Vinegar in drinking water is effective in eliminating the low-grade fevers that are present in Chronic Fatigue sufferers. It also helps eliminate thrush in the mouth which is sometimes caused by antibiotic use. Mix four tablespoons of apple cider vinegar to a gallon of drinking water. Drink up to one gallon each day.

 

Use raw vinegar in water for arthritis and it takes the swelling and stiffness away. Use 1 tablespoon in any amount of water twice a day.

 

They can and do work