USE THIS REMEDY IF:
you have back pain or neck pain. This remedy can help relive mild or acute back pain due to muscle strain or muscle spasms. Your pain may be worse upon bending over or changing position.This remedy can relive neck stiffness or neck pain due to muscle tension. Your pain may concentrate in the next itself, or radiate to the shoulders. Headaches due to stiff or tense neck may be helped by this remedy. In some cases, the remedy may relive back or neck pain resulting from osteo-arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis.
This remedy does not repair structural damage to the spine, such as a herniated or slipped disc. It may not relieve pain due to pinched nerves (for that try PAIN, page 197, instead).
Along with your back pain you may experience irritability, self-consciousness due to impaired movement, depression and emotional upset. This remedy should help relieve these complaints as well.
If your use of this remedy is successful (your backache disappears) but later it returns, try
SPORTS INJURIES , page 249, instead of this remedy.HOW TO USE THIS REMEDY:
Make and drink this remedy every 15 minutes until your pain is relieved. For mild cases this remedy should begin to provide relief within three or four glasses. If it does not, consider the alternative remedies listed below.Stop using this remedy as soon as your pain is gone.
If you experience no improvement after 4 glasses of this remedy, switch to the most appropriate among the alternative remedies listed below, or use the RESISTANCE remedy, page 229.
ALTERNATIVE REMEDIES TO CONSIDER:
First Aid, page 141
Physical Injury, page 205
Pain, page 197
Ache, page 73
(if it's better by moving it)Poison Ivy , page 209
Stress, page 261MEDICAL ALERT:
If you have numbness or pain that radiates from your back down your legs, you may have a structural problem, nerve or ligament damage and should seek professional chiropractic or medical care immediately.The Well Adult: page 230, has an excellent discussion of back and neck pain. It can help you distinguish a muscle strain(which you can treat at home) from a spinal problem (which may require professional care). In addition, the authors present a number of simple exercises for strengthening the back and abdominal muscles to prevent your back from "going out" again in the future.
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