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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've been developing arthritis in my fingers. My mom said she had the same issue in her 20s, and to drink 1 tbsp raw unprocessed apple cider vinegar, 1 tbsp raw unprocessed honey, mixed with some orange juice (to cut the taste) (I doubled everything because I'ma big guy). And voila! She said she had to do it for a year straight before it helped, but I've been doing it barely a week and I already feel ~15% better!

Do you all have any stories of unconventional home remedies / alternative medicine?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you are going to drink that make sure to use a straw or you'll wreck your teeth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Didn't even think of that, I've actually enjoyed the taste and been swilling it around my mouth πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈπŸ˜… thanks for the tip!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious, what's the rest of your diet like?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'd say relatively pretty decent, I eat fruits and vegetables everyday, decent meats (avoid red), but also some processed/sugary/fried stuff too. How come?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Change the orange juice for water, Add some powdered ginger and you have yourself a tasty drink πŸ‘ I also add lemon juice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My scurvy ass could always use some vitamin C, sometimes i drink straight lemon/lime juice but that's more for shock value

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So try 1l water, 47ml apple cider vinegar, 95ml honey (the recipe is normally made with molasses or even maple syrup but if you need honey then try with honey), and 3g powder ginger. Measure those 3g on a kitchen scale because it's a lot of powder, more than you'd expect. Whisk until it dissolves as much as possible, then let decanting happen, the powder ginger will eventually settle at the bottom. Leave in the fridge and you can drink it like that, or what I do is mix it with just a little bit of ice tea. You could try adding lemon juice in it but I think then you'd need a bit more sugar as well.

You can also add a little bit of rum, it goes great. Drink in the next few days, it doesn't keep for very long. Tastes better the next day in my opinion when the ginger has properly dissolved too.

Old-timey energy drink from the 1700s lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sounds effing yum πŸ˜‹

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can’t say anything about the above, but CBD oil helped me a lot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

With what in particular?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Treating arthritis in my hands. CDB seems to be pretty good at treating inflammation when taken over long periods.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'd recommend adding nettle to your diet to help with the arthritis.

You can drink it as a tea and it's quite nice but tbh I think you get better mileage from using dried nettle leaves as a substitute for dried parsley and/or as an addition to where you would use spinach. It's very nutritious too.

Basically, if you're going to make something like spinach and ricotta lasagna then you can add a heaping pile of dried nettle leaves (anywhere from a tablespoon to a handful) and you won't even notice it.

I think you need to be a little cautious about incorporating it into your diet early on because too much can cause diarrhoea and stomach upsets but once you've adjusted to it then you can go hard on it.

Nettles have been a subsistence food and peasant food for centuries, if not millennia. It's prole af.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The newest leaves also makes a great pesto.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Never heard of that, interesting, I'll look into it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I drink yerba mate daily. It has many health benefits

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My brother brought some from an education trip to Argentina, I just thought it was their version of tea/coffee. Cool!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Apparently it has the health benefits of green tea, chocolate, and coffee all in one. Often if I wake up from a poor sleep feeling crappy, Yerba usually makes me feel better. Not to mention the joy of drinking it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Olive oil is great for dry skin problems. I had some very deep cracks in my foot causing me lots of pain. After a week of applying some every night they were as good as new. Just don't use it on acne-prone parts of your body like your face, for obvious reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Cialis for kidney stones

Pressing thumbs onto the sides of your nose (on your sinuses) with a tilted head to clear sinuses rapidly

Breathing exercises for pain

Ginger for motion sickness and nausea

Salt gargle for all throat ailments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Isopropyl alcohol can relieve nausea

Arthritis pain is medicated by inflammation. Be careful that you don’t let the inflammation progress, because your cartilage is a finite resource.