Arthritis is one of the most common ailments

Posted by Mark Chapman on July 18th, 2010 at 6:41 pm

Car­olyn Schoner

By Car­olyn Schoner

Doc­tor of Ori­en­tal Medicine

The def­i­n­i­tion of arthri­tis is any inflam­ma­tion of the joint. But arthri­tis is more than just inflam­ma­tion. It is bone spurs, degen­er­a­tion of the joint or bone, repet­i­tive move­ments, loss of syn­ovial fluid, tight mus­cles, osteo­poro­sis, deple­tion of cal­cium or mag­ne­sium, obe­sity, side effect of med­ica­tion, lack of exer­cise, sprain, strain, mis­align­ment, incor­rect diet and short­en­ing of the tendons.

More than 55 mil­lion Amer­i­cans suf­fer from osteoarthri­tis, rheuma­toid arthri­tis and related con­di­tions includ­ing fibromyal­gia, gout, lupus, pso­ri­atic arthri­tis, bur­si­tis, scle­ro­derma, Reiter’s syn­drome, Sjogren’s syn­drome and anky­los­ing spondyli­tis. There may be audi­ble crack­ing or grat­ing noises when the joint move, called crepitus.

Arthri­tis is not a mod­ern dis­ease; it has been found in skele­tons of the Nean­derthals and other pre­his­toric mam­mals — even in dinosaurs. As sophis­ti­cated as we think we are, mankind is still plagued with arthritis.

When a per­son comes to see me for acupunc­ture and they say, “I have arthri­tis,” I have to fig­ure which type they have. Most peo­ple are told my their doc­tor that they just have arthri­tis, which seems to be a catch-all for kinds of mus­cu­los­kete­tal problems.

One of the most com­mon causes of arthri­tis is loss of syn­ovial fluid in the joints. The syn­ovial joints in the body are knees, wrists, elbows, fin­gers, toes, hips and shoul­ders. The neck and back also have joints between the bones of the spines. This vis­cous fluid, and the smooth rub­ber blue-white car­ti­lage cov­er­ing the ends of the bones within the joint, glide the bones smoothly pass one another. When the syn­ovial fluid is lack­ing or depleted in the joints, car­ti­lage starts to dry and the bones do not slide gen­tly. When the syn­ovial fluid is gone, you have bone on bone; the car­ti­lage is gone and degen­er­a­tion begins. Bone on bone is very painful and debil­i­tat­ing. Often surgery is required in the form of knee or hip replace­ment. Hip and knee replace­ment requires a long recov­ery and phys­i­cal ther­apy. Peo­ple become depressed and seden­tary, a prob­lem that only makes things worst.

A sim­ple solu­tion for the loss of syn­ovial fluid is half a glass of aloe vera juice with a drop­per of DMEAH3 (PABA, Para-amino ben­zoic acid). A few drops of liq­uid chloro­phyll a day will help restore the syn­ovial fluid over time and keep your joints young and healthy. When you have suf­fi­cient syn­ovial fluid in your joints, crepi­tus disappears.

In my next arti­cle I will dis­cuss obe­sity and how it affects your joints and your abil­ity to be active. Obe­sity is a major cause of arthritis.

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This arti­cle is not for you to stop tak­ing your pre­scrip­tion drugs. It is intended to make you aware that you can pre­vent cer­tain con­di­tions and to offer infor­ma­tion that can ben­e­fit you and your fam­i­lies. The food that we enjoy every day can be the best med­i­cine in the world, but it can also be deadly.

You may e-mail me with your com­ments and ques­tions at food_as_medicine@yahoo.com

Car­olyn Schoner is a doc­tor of Ori­en­tal Med­i­cine. Her prac­tice encom­passes the use of  Her­bol­ogy, Home­opa­thy, Cran­ioSacral Ther­apy, Vis­ceral Manip­u­la­tion Tui Na Mas­sage, Mox­a­bus­tion, heat ther­apy, Qua Sha, Gi Gong, vit­a­mins and min­er­als, essen­tial oils,  Bach Flower Reme­dies, diet coun­sel­ing, energy work, non-surgical face lifts and tummy tuck and acupunc­ture. She has been in prac­tice for 10 years. She con­ducted under­grad­u­ate stud­ies at Ohio State Uni­ver­sity, grad­u­ate stud­ies at Uni­ver­sity or Ari­zona, Ori­en­tal Med­i­cine at East West Col­lege, Cran­ioSacral and Vis­ceral Manip­u­la­tion at Upledger Insti­tute, blood chem­istry and med­ical imag­ing at the Uni­ver­sity of Miami and Home­opa­thy and Homotoxicology/Women’s Health at the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety for Homotoxicology.

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