Pain Information Center

Pain affects more Americans today than ever before - back pain, joint pain, arthritis, migraines. It is not a disease in itself, but a warning of health problems not necessarily associated with the location of the pain.

The Miracle of MSM : The Natural Solution for Pain
by Stanley W. Jacob

Welcome to the Pain Center.

Webster defines Pain as: PUNISHMENT; PENALTY; suffering or distress of body or mind; a basic sensation caused by harmful stimuli and marked by discomfort (as throbbing or aching).

Pain is nothing new. Aeschylus (458 BC) wrote :" Who, except the gods, can live time through without pain?"

But Kahil Gibran in "The Prophet" (1923) wrote :" Much of pain is self chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self." This is little consolation to those suffering from chronic pain, for, as the  English proverb observes: "An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure."

Orthodox medicine usually treats pain as a primary affliction for which the usual treatment is pain-killers - which are hard to resist if you are suffering. Most pain killers, including aspirin, have side effects, and most need to be increased in potency as the body finds that the source of its pain is not being cured. Hence the Extra Strength this and Extra Strength that which advertisers bombard us with. Standard is not good enough.

Alternative Medicine views pain differently - as a warning signal for some underlying health problem. To someone suffering from chronic pain or intermittent migraines, this is of little consequence - they need an end to their suffering, and they need it now. To theorize that the migraine may be caused by an allergic reaction to some food or chemical is of academic interest unless there is a sure fire way to prevent the occurrence. Otherwise the hand reaches automatically for the Extra Strength. Time and pain wait for no man! And the warning signal is turned off like a smoke alarm, while the fire smolders to eventually consume the building! These pain-killers sedate and drug the nervous system so the pain is not registered. They do nothing to cure the source of it, and in many cases, exacerbate the problem, as when the pain has left a joint, you use it again and promote additional damage to the already weakened tissues in that joint. In addition, Tylenol can and will damage the liver if used excessively, or with alcohol.

To ferret out the root cause of the warning signal is not always easy, but is a necessity if long term relief is to be attained. Chiropractors have a proven record of doing this where nerves are pinched in the spinal column, and their therapy resets and realigns the vertebra. The actual pain might be located far from the back, as nerves have an intricate system of routing to the brain. Acupuncture has also been shown to help. This ancient Chinese healing art is bravely trying to enter the modern medical world.

Herbal, mineral and other natural treatments have been used for centuries. Natural hot springs have, since pre-Roman times, been accepted as a way to obtain relief from pain, often through their relaxing influence on the whole body, as well as their ability to assist in the detoxification of the body through the skin. MSM is a modern example of the use of organic minerals to cleanse and strengthen the whole system, thereby relieving some of the Root causes of pain.

Herbal remedies have been effective where they attack the source of the pain as well as the way that pain interacts on the nerve endings and brain. The "Hot" spices of India have long been known as remedies, as have Ginger root and peppers, whose active ingredient, Capsaicin, has been used effectively in topical ointments. But it has taken modern molecular technology to combine these folk remedies with 21st century realities to produce a proven treatment for pain which also attacks the cause of Rheumatism and Arthritis, two of the modern day felons.

Six years of extensive research in Denmark costing $4 million has established how to extract the substance in Ginger root which is effective in doing this - the gingeroles. This research also identified the way to stabilize this substance in a standardized form, so that every dose would be identical and equally effective. And to reduce the formation of shogaroles, which can cause gastrointestinal irritation.

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