Every 7 years I take a test to maintain my medical board certification. This test is prepared by the American Board of Family Medicine. The last time I took the test I clearly remember a multiple choice question regarding osteoarthritis. The choice...
There is an air of desperation surrounding treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). With every new failure to come up with a drug that can reliably prevent progression of the disease, medicine grows bolder, experimenting with ever more powerful--and...
Fasting is the voluntary abstention from food for a period, which can range from 12 hours to 90 days or more. Most therapeutic fasts are, however, usually for between three to seven days. Liquid ...
DRUG ALERTS: New warnings
Is there an alternative way of dealing with osteoarthritis, specifically spondylitis? As you are no doubt aware, orthodox medicine has no answer. In fact, following an X-ray, which established tha ...
THE COX-2s: Oh well, back to the drawing board
In treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA), conventional medicine has concentrated on powerful drugs to suppress symptoms. But there are a surprising number of alternative treatments that deal more di ...
* Black cumin (Nigella sativa). Constituents in the oil and seeds - in particular, thymoquinine (TQ) - have shown potent anti-inflammatory effects in conditions such as arthritis (Int Immunopharmacol, 2005; 5: 1749-70).
Suggested dosage: 1 tsp/day of
Reader's Corner
In the time honoured tradition of waste not want not, doctors are treating arthritis sufferers with an antimalarial drug. This Jack of all trades is oral hydroxychloroquine, which seems to help rh ...
Ray Sahelian MD
What Doctors Don't Tell You
