There canb muchto be said unorthodox medicine. Many pharmaceutical medicines arebased or derived from herbal medicines. This being said, many many, herbal and unorthodox medicines and therapy are specifically designed to part us from our money.
Think of it this way, if a gasket is blown on a carburetor it must be replaced or repaired properly. Nomagic juice, music or nice car perfume will help. Go a doctor for your shoulder.

I had knee pain so bad I was taking 2 percocet a day and getting some relief. the knee pain was due to craters in the cartelige in the knee joint, was bad enough to start thinking about knee replacement. I later started to get nose bleeds, I don't know why and nothing to do with the percocet. Because of the nose bleeds I ran out of blood platelets and was diagnosed with ITP and had a blood platelete count of 2. Was immediately sent to Portland 90 miles away and treated for the ITP. During this treatment I was given steroids and IVIG. My blood suger spiked and I was given insulin. Took some time but the platelets came back and my pain from my knees stopped. Been about a year and I have taken one percocet for knee pain in this time. I started to take Glucosamine and condriten (spelling) and feel it has helped. Have no real idea what is happening with the knees, I do use a cane sometimes having problems with inclines and such. My thought is to try what you want and do research to find if it is harmful. If it seems to work keep it up and if it does not then stop taking it. Find a good herbalist, if you cannot find one there is one in Astoria, she is great and knowledgeable. Apparently no website but you can google for her and she does have a phone, or snail male works also. Not an ad for her just a suggestion.

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my back began to twist out of alignment early on, leaving me with the threefold: kyphosis, lordosis & skoliosis. additionally to that i had two accidents, which resulted in one badly healed, now wedge-shaped T4 & a major disc prolapse between L5 & S1. i do exercises daily, just switched from a chiro to a physio, who gave me a few new exercises, very effective.

in matters of nutrition i would always start with alkalising the organism. since a spell of lymphoma 2 years ago i take a generous amount of turmeric in every cooked dinner i have (in olive oil with lotsa freshly ground black pepper - important for digestibility). there are some mushrooms like turkeytail, reishi, etc. that have a positive effect on inflammatory conditions. cbd (&cba) oil (the 20.something %er) of course is THE king of healers. i eat a lot of brassica & garlic, raw & cooked.

Well after only 3 days, a little more movement with out screaming, but more continuous pain when not moving it. Time will tell.

I take different supplements rather than go to the doctor and when my husband was given 9 months to live we extended that to 2 years with diet change and supplements

Just don't emulate the guy in the picture. I've been using glucosamine for over 25 yrs now, and there is no question in my mind that it works for me. At 68, I have virtually no chronic joint pain, none. I am convinced it works for me because the 2 or 3 times I ran out, my joint pain returned, and one time my knees locked up on me after barely beginning a walk with my dogs.

I just began, about a month back, taking turmeric. It's probably too early to tell, but I seem to have experienced a reduction in overall body pain since starting on it. Maybe that's a placebo effect, I don't know. But the pain lessening is unequivocally real.

Several months back, while going through a comprehensive (Medicare sponsored) physical, I mentioned to the P.A. that I'd been experiencing some neuropathy in my lower legs, numbness. She suggested I try magnesium tablets. I got some immediately, and after a few weeks, I noticed a slight reduction in the neuropathy. It is at about only 25% now of what it was before I began using the magnesium. I am convinced, also btw, that the neuropathy was originally brought on by prescription cholesterol medication, which I arbitrarily stopped using. I have had blood work done since quitting the cholesterol med, and no indication of elevated cholesterol, as far as I know.