Aspirin - is not without its side-effects

How many people have you met, that have an Aspirin deficiency? Yet people are taking Aspirin every day, with its negative side-effects. Some use Aspirin as a blood thinner and others as a painkiller. Yet nature has provided us with substances that can thin the blood and kill pain and bring with them a whole [...]

Arthritis sufferers strategies for sleeping better

Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic
Is is so depressing not being able to sleep properly for anyone, but much much worse if your pain is preventing you from sleep properly. Many arthritis sufferers send hours lying awake at night and its hard not to focus on the pain. How much worse [...]

Many arthritis sufferers take antacids

Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Health Clinic

Some people find the medication they take causes them a lot of digestive problems.
Does eating give you heart burn? Do you reach for antacids that may or may not work, are expensive, have side-effects and only treat your symptoms? Taking antacids can compromise your [...]

Drug induces Lupus - a form of arthritis

Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Health Clinic

It has been reported the their are dozens of medications that can trigger systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The drugs most lightly to cause “drug-induced lupus” -
Hydralazine for blood pressure
Quinidine and Procainamide used for abnormal heart rhythms
Phenytoin used for epilepsy
Isoniazid used for tuberculois
D-penicillamine used [...]

Aspirin and arthritis pain relief, is it safe?

How many people have you met, that have an Aspirin deficiency? Yet people are taking Aspirin every day, with its negative side-effects. Some use Aspirin as a blood thinner and others as a painkillers for arthritis pain. Yet nature has provided us with substances that can thin the blood and kill pain and bring with [...]

Make your own arthritis relief heat bag

Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Health Clinic, Boquete, Panama
Brown rice - approximately 3/4 lb
Spices like -
whole cloves - a small spice  jar full
cinnamon sticks approximately 6 broken up into 1 inch pieces
whole cardamoms - a small spice jar full
Two pieces of cloth - reasonably sturdy and tightly woven, corduroy is perfect, or [...]

Surgery

Sonia Jones ND from the Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic
Some people need, or opt for surgery, this is a big decision, any surgery is invasive no matter how simple and is viewed as a trauma by the body.
The body is pumped with various chemicals that it has to deal with, then there is the [...]

Exercise really can help your arthritis

Mark Perrin-Jones
Pain can make the thought of exercising quite of putting, lets face it some of us don’t need much excuse, but exercise really can help you. There are many types of exercise, making it difficult knowing where to begin for fear of making things worse. Choose the right type of exercise and it will [...]

Antacids

Sonia Jones ND
There are many medications be they prescription or non-prescription (over-the-counter) that cause digestive problems, especially painkillers and steroids.
1000s and 1000s of people take one form or another of antacids for heartburn, acidity, indigestion, all of which can be very painful conditions. For some people these painful problems can spoil their quality of [...]

Pain and painkiller addition!

Sonia Jones ND
Pharmaceuticals – prescription and non-prescription (over-the-counter)
Most of us have experience pain in one form or another at different times in our lives, for example toothache and reach for some form of medication to relief the pain. Using painkillers in this way (occasionally) is quite normal and will do no harm. However, for people [...]