“That wouldn’t have been Vioxx would it?”
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This happened before Vioxx came along, whatever it was my father took it for a very short time and decided his body was telling him to stop it before he died from it. My mother was a nurse and she was very upset when he wouldn’t take the stuff but when it was pulled off the market and my father started into full remission without medication she had to rethink.
He never knew what to credit his recovery to but he figured it was some kind of wild plant he had eaten. He said he had eaten raw every wild plant that he thought wouldn’t kill him and something must have worked. He had a fair knowledge of plant life gleaned from practical experience on the farm, not from school.
Strange that one of the biggest arguments for prescription medication over herbals and natural methods is that they’ve been thoroughly tested and studied and are safer than the alternatives.
The medical and scientific communities have deemed it so and they would lie to us, would they? They just have our best interests at heart and don’t have anything to gain by lying, do they?
But what with the things we’ve seen lately, it’s just so much buffalo chips....
My mom had been struggling with arthritis in her mid sixties when a friend told her to take alfalfa pills. They were tough to take because they were large, dry, difficult to swallow, and she needed at least eight per day to get relief. The relief lasted 24 hours though, and besides being dirt cheap they didn't rot your stomach lining like the NSAIDs.
Then in her seventies we noticed that if she forgot to take them there wasn't any pain. Then if she forgot to buy them, there STILL wasn't any pain. It was gone for good, complete remission. She's 86 now and it never came back.
So I'm 52, and I now have arthritis so that's what I take. Walmart still sells it, so it must work for a lot of people.