Detoxing and Arthritis

A Basic Cleanse is beneficial for arthritis sufferers, followed by allergy testing and a predominantly raw-food diet. Essential with any cleanse is to drink plenty of pure, filtered water.

This guide was prepared by a local Naturopath in relation to detoxing and arthritis. Please note the information doesn’t replace the care of your doctor.
DIET:

Basic Cleanse followed by allergy testing and predominantly raw-food diet. Minimize sweet and acid food, wheat products, gluten, milk, and cheese. If fingernails are soft take hydrochloric acid with meals, sodium bicarbonate 3 hours after hydrochloric acid. Use ground linseed, fish oils, cold-pressed peanut oil and olive oil. Avoid other commercial cooking oils, citrus fruit, foods of the nightshade family and processed food.

SUPPLEMENTS:

Vitamin B6 (especially with problems of the hands) and nicotinamide in addition to multi-vitamins. 500 mg or more of magnesium, boron (as from 50 – 100 mg of borax or a small pinch), zinc, MSM, try copper salicylate for pain and inflammation, alternatively chelated copper or copper bracelet. Acidophilus, digestive enzymes, celery seeds, yucca. Most helpful: glucosamine, in addition mussel extract or liquid bovine cartilage or shark cartilage, also broth of fish heads.

ADDITIONAL THERAPY:

Warm peanut oil rubs of affected joints, hot Epsom salts pack and hot Epsom salts bath, sweating, kerosene pack around affected joints, also other blistering agents. Dissolve MSM and glucosamine in a solution of copper salicylate and rub it into affected joints. Blue light therapy over painful areas, orange light on stiff, calcified joints. Deep muscle massage, remove dead teeth and amalgam fillings.