Traditional Chinese Medicine for Osteoarthritis ?

In coping with osteoarthritis, most arthritis sufferers
would go for the conventional Western method of
treatment, which mainly involves painkillers and
anti-inflammatory pills, plus physiotheraphy and
glucosamine sulphate tablets.

However, there are some patients who seek
alternative methods of treatment, particularly
methods which are natural and does not involve
drugs.

One such method is the use of traditional
chinese medicine. or popularly known as TCM.

TCM largely consists of Chinese herbal medicine,
acupuncture, dietary therapy, and massage,
though the term is often extended to a wide
assortment of largely unregulated over-the-counter
supplements and remedies

The underlying principle in TCM is that illness
occurs due to the imbalance between the organ
systems in the human body.

As all the organs are inter-related to each other,
when one organ weakens ..... it then weakens
the other organs as well, thus causing a chain
reaction which results in the illness.

In short, the Ying and Yang elements in the
body is not balanced and synchronised.
Thus,  the aim of TCM is to nurture and
restore the affected organs back to a
healthy and balanced state.

To buy traditional chinese medicine,
one can do an online search or visit
the practitioners of TCM.

In countries like China, Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Singapore and Malaysia, it is common to
locate a shop selling traditonal chinese
medicine.

And in the west, one can easily find such
TCM practitioners if you stroll down the
Chinatowns in cities like New York, Toronto,
Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
and so on.

If one is to pay a visit, most likely the
practitioner will tell you that the level of
acidity in your body is high ..... thus
compounding the effects of osteoarthritis.

He will then prepare for you a concoction
of Chinese herbs, which consists of over
10 different types of tree barks, leaves,
roots, flowers, fruits, seeds and shoots.

The herbs are meant to reduce the acid
level ...... and subsequently neutralize it
to achieve a balanced Ying Yang in you.

The concotion of herbs need to be boiled
with water over slow fire for about 30 minutes,
after which the herbal residue is drained off
and the extracted herbal juice is ready for
drinking,

Chinese medicine are usually very bitter
in taste. Thus, if you have a sweet tooth,
it is recommended that you get yourself
ready for a lingering bitter effect.....

As such herbal preparations are not a
one-off miracle cure, you will need to take
it for at least 10 times to be able to gauge
its effectiveness in helping you to treat and
cope with the osteoarthritis.