Cherry Juice Could Help You With Your Pain

The Telegraph reports study findings of unsweetened cherry juice relieving muscle pain after exercise. The researchers believe this could be because of natural anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds called anthocyanins which also give cherries their bright red colour. It is being spoken of as the new sports drink.

It is suggested that cherries could also reduce inflammation related to heart disease and arthritis, and could help sufferers from the chronic pain of fibromyalgia.

A drug-free means of pain relief/reduction is to be welcome, especially as so many painkillers have adverse side-effects.

Another arthritis painkiller - Prexige - made by Novartis - has caused fatalities

Doctors warned over arthritis drug after two die in Australia - Guardian

Extracts:

"Health campaigners last night urged doctors to be wary of prescribing an arthritis drug after concerns over its safety and an order to ban it in Australia following reports of liver damage. UK and European drug regulators are reviewing the safety data on the painkiller, Prexige, after eight cases of serious liver damage in Australia, including two fatalities.

There are concerns because Prexige is in the same class of drugs as Vioxx, the painkiller withdrawn worldwide in 2004 after being linked to heart attacks and strokes."

"In the UK approximately 5,400 patients have received one or more prescriptions for Prexige, made by the drugs company Novartis, in the last year.

Vioxx, which was manufactured by a separate drugs company, Merck, was used by 84 million patients worldwide, 400,000 of them in Britain. It was withdrawn after trials suggested it might nearly double the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

The class of drugs which includes Prexige and Vioxx is known as Cox-2 selective inhibitors. They are a relatively new type of anti-inflammatory medicine which is thought to produce fewer gastro-intestinal side effects than older non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which include ibuprofen. Since the Vioxx crisis they have been under surveillance by medicines watchdogs."

Cutting down on salt and salty food is helpful for reducing the pain of osteoarthritis and has many other health benefits too. - See conditions that can be helped by eating less salt

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It's important to read the label carefully when using over-the-counter medications. Track star, Arielle Newman, died after using too much muscle-rub.

Muscle-rub blamed for death of athlete, Arielle Newman - New Scientist