Rheumatoid Arthritis
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16. It is sometimes considered ill-judged to refer to the body as a chemical laboratory, yet if the body is healthy, it is chemically balanced. If the body is mentally, emotionally and physically in balance, then there is health. Much depends on the “pillars of health”: nutrition, digestion, elimination, circulation, exercise and relaxation.
17. Nutrition depends on good digestion through the mouth, the stomach and the duodenum. In turn, this is dependent on the presence of amino acids, glucose, essential fatty acids, enzymes, vitamins, minerals and oxygen, which are all needed to allow maximum absorption. Good absorption will break down and apportion nutrients to the blood, liver, heart and organ cells. Balance in this context means that waste material is able to leave the body and the waste material in the blood can be eliminated through the kidneys, lungs and skin. Effective elimination has been recognised as a significant factor because arthritic and rheumatic people are often plagued by constipation. Residual waste must be encouraged to leave the body at regular intervals.
18. Chinese believe that all illness is disharmony in body, mind and soul. It has been recognised that rheumaticism and arthritis are somehow connected to both the immune and endocrine systems. Therefore naturo-food therapists endeavour to approach such problems from the holistic point of view: to study body, mind and soul as three integral and inter-related parts of one and the same entity.
19. Orthodox pain-relieving treatments for rheumatoid arthritis with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) like aspirin and cortisone (which often have harmful side-effects) have mostly proven unsatisfactory and completely unable to cure the dreaded disease. Only individualised naturo-food therapy has any hope of removing the cause and curing the dreaded disease. There is no quick and easy cure, no magic pill, and no miracle diet suited for all. With arthritis, as with most degenerative diseases, there are as many different approaches as there are patients, and each one is unique.
20. Arthritis is a process, and at the very least, the process may be stopped so that you don’t get any worse. The process may often be reversed and the arthritis is then cured. Often the improvement is slow, although very often it may be rapid as well. If for any reason your health is affected, please do not give in by telling yourself, or for that matter letting anyone else tell you, that you will have to learn to live with it. Don’t follow that road, because it just is not true! You owe it to yourself and you owe it to those who love you to do all that is possible to bring about a change.
21. Successful treatment always involves lifestyle changes, which may not be easy to adopt by everyone. To revive the immune system for combating the disease, balanced nutritious diet, regular exercise, large doses of humour, adequate sleep and relaxation techniques like deep breathing, yoga, music, meditation can work wonders. Maintaining normal healthy weight is important factor in preventing and curing arthritis. Obesity places excess stress on joints and interferes with smooth functioning of tendons, ligaments and muscles. This implies that the only type of arthritis patient who can ever hope for real improvement with Naturo-Food Therapy must have a real desire for regaining health and the persistence and patience to obtain it at all cost by following the advice of his/her naturo-food therapist earnestly. The best way to prevent the disease getting worse is by getting treatment early from your naturo-food therapist. The sooner you begin Naturo-Food Therapy, the less disease will disfigure your joints.
