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X-ray of a right shoulder with calcific deposits (Calcific tendinitis) (9-28-08)<\/span> [Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \/\u00a0\u00a0Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported<\/a>\u00a0license]<\/span><\/p>\n

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My wife Judy and I are very much into a health food diet (sugar-free, semi-vegetarian<\/a>, and for her, also gluten-free <\/a>and dairy -free), holistic health, herbalism, homeopathy, a full regimen of daily vitamins and minerals, preventive and alternative medicine, and chiropractic. We follow these practices because they work<\/i>. I had hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in the early 80s and vastly improved my health by going sugar-free (i.e., table sugar): as did Judy shortly after we got married in 1984.<\/p>\n

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Judy has had a variety of ailments through the years (so many I have even forgotten some of them), and almost always I have managed to either cure them or greatly alleviate symptoms through natural supplements. These include fairly serious depression (originally post-partum), overall menopausal symptoms, pleurisy, hot flashes, and fibromyalgia.<\/p>\n

The latest thing was an extremely<\/i> painful shoulder, apparently brought on (longterm) by a fall on the ice some weeks back, and (immediate cause) lifting a good number of books (that I obtained for free) last week. Yes, I told her not to do it three or four times (for those of you about to blame me<\/i>!). The next day she woke up and couldn\u2019t move her left arm at all, and had extreme pain in the shoulder: so bad that she thought it was dislocated.<\/p>\n

So she went to the chiropractor, who \u201cput it back into place\u201d (thinking it was dislocated). But it seemed to make it worse. She took codeine (which we had around the house from one of my son\u2019s injuries), which only helped slightly, and gave her nausea. She took Tylenol (aceteminophen) and Advil (ibuprofen), and they didn\u2019t take the pain away at all<\/i>. Ice packs and hot baths offered only minimal relief. We then went to the doctor, hoping at first to get a shot of cortisone or something (which she never got). The doctor recommended an x-ray. This revealed a calcium deposit of 1 cm in the rotator cuff area of her shoulder (pretty much like the photo above). It\u2019s called calcified shoulder or calcified tendonitis<\/a>. Thus, the original chiropractic diagnosis of a dislocated shoulder was erroneous.<\/p>\n

One we got the definitive diagnosis, I immediately went to work, doing research on natural remedies. Judy was still in constant severe pain<\/i> and couldn\u2019t even lie down in bed at night. She had to sleep on our reclining loveseat. I came up with a regimen of seven natural supplements (mostly herbs and homeopathic). Lo and behold, within hours<\/i> and certainly by the next morning of the regimen starting, Judy experienced dramatic improvement. She could start to move her arm again. Last night, after a few days\u2019 treatment, she reported that she had no ongoing pain at all; only if she attempted to move her shoulder much. The improvement is gradual but steady and getting better all the time<\/p>\n

Once again, then, conventional medicine could offer no quick solution and no help at all other than a diagnostic x-ray. Had we pursued that route, it would be weeks of physical therapy with an orthopedist (most of which can be done at home). Even chiropractic (which usually works for us) failed. But holistic medicine, from an hour or so of Internet research, brought about dramatic improvement<\/i>. Yet to this day, many doctors and conventional medicine as a whole remain significantly hostile to these methods, because they are alternative and not controlled by the health industry.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s slowly changing, with some doctors combining conventional and alternative methods, but the hostility is still a major phenomenon. Those of us who find cures and relief don\u2019t care<\/i>. Let the doctors and scientists fight amongst themselves, while we feel better and save lots of money in so doing, also. The proof\u2019s in the pudding, I always say. While these methods are put down and dismissed as quack medicine or based on no scientific studies and \u201canecdotal\u201d only, or \u201csnake oil salesman\u201d stuff, we feel better and are cured of our ills. We don\u2019t care (in terms of getting cured)\u00a0 how<\/i> it works, or what the scientific<\/i> explanation is (though the more of that the merrier). All we care about, bottom line, is feeling better<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Here is the regimen I used. Those of you suffering acute joint pain \/ arthritis \/ symptoms of gluten intolerance \/ rheumatism and related problems may benefit from it. We obtained all of these supplements from the local Vitamin Shoppe<\/a>. It has a large site online to order from if you don\u2019t have one near you. It currently has a \u201cbuy one, get one 50% off\u201d sale till the end of April: a sale that comes around twice a year. I have linked each supplement below to Wikipedia articles (with one exception), for general information, and to Vitamin Shoppe for purchase of the exact supplement we used.<\/p>\n

[all taken with meals unless indicated otherwise]<\/p>\n

Bromelain<\/a> (2000 GDU) [buy<\/a>] (between meals) 500 mg 3x [3 times a day]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Boswellia serrata<\/a> [buy<\/a>] 250 mg 4x<\/p>\n

White Willow Bark<\/a> [buy<\/a>] 400 mg 3x<\/p>\n

Turmeric<\/a> (95% circumin<\/a>) [buy<\/a>] 300 mg 4x<\/p>\n

MSM <\/a>[buy<\/a>] 500 mg 2x<\/p>\n

Arnica Montana<\/a> 6c or 6x [buy<\/a>] [buy<\/a>] (between meals) 3 4x or 5 3x depending on brand<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rhus Toxicodendron<\/a> 6c or 6x [buy<\/a>] [buy<\/a>] (between meals) 3 4x or 5 3x depending on brand<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only problem we had was headaches. I looked up turmeric and MSM, which I was less familiar with, and discovered that MSM can be accompanied by headaches, especially when introducing it. It\u2019s thought that they are a result of the body detoxifying (which is a good thing). But we reduced the dosage by half (what it is, above) and her headaches went away. If you experience a seeming side effect, simply search the supplements with the side effect, and if they are widespread, several pages will be found, to confirm the problem. This is where the Internet becomes an amazing font of knowledge, allowing almost \u201cdoctor-like\u201d analyses and diagnoses and treatments: at least in terms of these kinds of supplements. It\u2019s an amazing synthesis of ancient, time-honored healing methods and modern searching \/ Internet capability.<\/p>\n

I found most of the cures we have used simply by typing in a symptom into Google and searching with \u201cnatural remedies\u201d or \u201cholistic medicine\u201d or \u201calternative medicine\u201d etc. This will yield lots of information, and then one can reach a conclusion from cumulative evidence.<\/p>\n

Once again, the \u201cproof\u2019s in the pudding.\u201d With herbalism and homeopathy, the idea is trial and error: you do what works, and if it doesn\u2019t, you modify until it does<\/i> work; or if it fails, you begin again in a different direction. If you have side effects, search those with the suspected cause till you can isolate it. But combinations of remedies means that several of them probably are working, and working together <\/i>for a cure.<\/p>\n

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Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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