Susan Cline on sat 4 sep 10
Yes I know this is OT, but it has been discussed on Clayart before.
My orthopaedic surgeon recently recommended tart cherry juice to me
for relief of arthritis inflammation, saying there is now some
scientific evidence of its properties and effects. It doesn't cause a
dramatic improvement, but I have begun to feel improvement in small
increments.
And it tastes good.
I buy mine at Trader Joe's and it's about $4/quart in Ohio, not TOO bad.
just fwiw,
Sue Cline
Cincinnati OH
On Sep 3, 2010, at 9:08 PM, MEUNIER LEE wrote:
> Hi Joyce,
>
> If you don't mind - what is that about Cherry Juice
>
> IN RESPONSE TO MY REQUEST TO TONY C:
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> Tony, tell Sheila please that I do drink the cherry juice and it
> DOES help the pain almost immediately! I always thank her mentally
> when that happens.... and you for having the good sense to marry
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>
>
> The above represents a half dozen or so requests for the same
> information.
> I'm choosing to answer all on-list in case others might be
> interested, and
> to keep Sheila from being deluged. Such pain may well prevent a
> potter
> from being able to pot so in a way it relates, right?
>
> Sheila sent me a message through Tony a couple of years ago about
> her use of sour cherry juice to alleviate pain from rheumatoid
> arthritis.
> ..... that is the juice of Sour Cherries, so labeled even though
> they may
> not taste "sour" at all. When I googled sour cherries I found few
> resources
> for purchasing the juice. I ordered a gallon from up around the
> Clennell's
> place, drank it daily and felt some relief.
>
> However, I decided not to go through the ordering process again
> (first order
> arrived with juice having leaked out of the containers). Instead I
> put our
> local health food store on it and they were able to order it by the
> pint.....
> very expensive since I drank a minimum of said pint daily. Soooo,
> before
> driving to Northeastern United States to fill the car full of the
> targeted
> juice, I wrote to Johns Hopkins arthritis center in Baltimore (? I
> think it's
> Baltimore) where a lot of research has been done about treatment of
> arthritis, including alternative treatments. Somewhere in all the
> materials
> e-mailed and snail-mailed to me I received the info that Johns Hopkins
> had been researching cherry juice for RH, AND had found that Sheila is
> correct........ drinking the sour cherry juice does alleviate the
> pain from
> inflammation caused by RH for "some" people. The last I heard JH (and
> others) were trying to isolate the component in the juice that helped
> relieve pain in hopes that it could be produced in a more easily
> managed
> form.
>
> Since then I've read that the juice of other cherries also seems to
> offer the
> same properties. Sooo I've been purchasing cherry juice from the
> local
> Albertson's grocery store where it doesn't stay on the shelves all
> that long.
>
> It doesn't help my pain every time but it's always worth a try and
> often does
> seemingly make a difference. I must add that I'm not certain that
> I'm quoting
> any person nor institution correctly. I have no "insider" knowledge
> nor
> experiences. I'm simply a two-fisted typist with no medical
> training of any
> kind, except that my mother (Mama Luce) was a LVN, Licensed Vocational
> Nurse, in the Kentucky mountains.... and my granddaughter is an RN/
> Nursing
> Practitioner
> in San Diego, CA.
>
> Tai Chi for arthritis helps me, also. Drat. Can I not keep my
> hands off the
> keyboard just once even though my brain is sending distress messages
> rapidly until I do tell ALL that I know, little that it may be.
>
> Do you get it that I don't know much and am not attempting to
> pretend that I
> do??
>
> Joyce
> In the Mojave desert of CA U.S.A.
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