Foods That Fight Pain!

As we all know ‘pain is a part of life’ and we cannot live without accepting the fact. Once in a while everyone has to go through some or other kind of pain, it can be a headache, back pain, or joint pain. But what if it is going to affect the quality of your life and always comes back as hard as it could? Here comes happy news for those who suffer some or other kind of pain and can’t find a natural and simple way to get rid of it.

Here are some great foods which has the medicinal quality to beat pain and get rid of it.

Ginger

Ginger has been widely used in India since long back to treat pain and irritation. Studies and other researches shows that people who were suffering from muscular pain are experienced improvement after consuming ginger. 500 and 1,000 milligrams per day is the recommended usage of ginger. You can check with nutrition or other health practitioner for the other healthful benefits of ginger.

Cherries

Cherries are well known for their ability to control inflammation and pain. Cherries, being a power house of anti-inflammatory nutrients help to relieve pain more effectively than aspirin and other pain killers. Studies have shown that tart cherry extract is ten times more effective than aspirin at relieving inflammation. Blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and strawberries are well known for relieving pain. You have to take only two tablespoons of the cherry juice daily for awaiting result.

Turmeric

Turmeric is a well known yellow spice commonly used in Indian curries. Turmeric has been shown to be a more effective than steroid medications when dealing with acute inflammation. Curcumin is the main therapeutic ingredient in turmeric which acts as great healing medicine. . Research shows that Curcumin suppresses pain through a similar mechanism as drugs like COX-1 and COX-2 inhibitors.

Fatty fish

All fatty fish including salmon and mackerel contains great amount of valuable oils. These fishes has good amount of Omega-3 fatty acid and that has a great deal reducing inflammation and pain. Fish oil has an anti inflammatory agent that acts directly on the immune system by suppressing 40 percent of the release of cytokines; w3hich is known to destroy joints. Other studies also proved that consuming fish or fish oil will reduce pain and inflammation especially for arthritis sufferers

Abduction of Turmeric – Pirates in the garden of India

The war began thus: In May, 1995 the US Patent Office granted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center a patent [#5,401,504] for “Use of Turmeric in Wound Healing.”

Well, well, well. Some discovery, that. Indians grow up with a constant awareness of turmeric. It permeates their life. It is an easy and generous plant [curcurma longa] that grows throughout the sub-continent. The tuber when dried keeps practically forever. Its decoction is a stubborn dye. It is a condiment that adds character to Indian food and helps digestion. Turmeric powder heals open wounds. Drunk with warm milk, it stems coughs, cures colds and comforts throats.

Indians paint doorways with turmeric paste as an insecticide. Women in the south make a depilatory skin cream with it. Add the juice of fresh lime to dry turmeric, let it marinate for three days, dry it in the sun and grind it to a fine powder and voila, you have the brilliant red kunkum that ‘dots’ Indian women’s foreheads and surrounds the gods in the temples. Roots are exchanged between people as a formal symbol of goodwill. Indians place freshly uprooted plants at the altar during Pongal and offer worship .

For Indians turmeric is a benevolent goddess. For sound reasons, it transpires. Indian physicians had always packed their kits with turmeric. Now West’s formal research was confirming many of its virtues. It is now believed to be able to treat dysentery, arthritis, ulcers and even some cancers. It is also found to protect the liver. Turmeric’s grace is stunning cancer researchers. COX-2 inhibitor drugs have been known to block an enzyme called cyclooxygenase-2 which aggravates arthritis. Dr. Mitch Gaynor at the Strang Cancer Prevention Center, New York uses these drugs in cancer treatment to impede this undesirable enzyme. Turmeric goes one step further: Dr. Chintalapally V. Rao of American Health Foundation, Valhalla, NY believes that while COX-2 inhibitor drugs battle the enzyme, the curcurmin element in turmeric prevents even the formation of the enzyme. Consider the implication of ‘turmeric patent’ #5,401,504. If an expatriate Indian in America sprinkles turmeric powder — just as her ancestors in India have done for centuries– on her child’s scrape, she would in fact be infringing US patent laws and was open to prosecution.

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