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"Mike" <mikes@cadvision.com> wrote:
> It's common knowledge that our present medical system makes drugs to
> minimize Symptoms but NOT to cure the disease .  The classic example
> is for Rheumatoid Arthritis sufferers who are prescribed anti-
> inflammatory drugs and pain killers when actually , to Cure the
> diseases one only needs to eliminate certain foods from diet !

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Despite this greedy creep's subliterate spiel being enough to send just
about anyone to their doctor for a truckload of horse pills, there is
something to this in the case of arthritis.  Marion here treats people
with food allergies, and arthritis is one of the commoner presenting
symptoms.  Many different foods can be responsible, but one of the
commoner ones is the tomato family (see the plant relationships file
on our website for a list).  If this one is to blame, cutting out all
foods containing solanaceous plants (and avoiding tobacco, which is
also in the family) will usually produce a very quick improvement (i.e.
you'll know if you're onto something in a week).  So the cost/benefit
ratio of checking out that possibility is pretty good.

However, there are many cases of RA where food allergy is not involved
at all, and many where it has only a minor role.  In this situation
NSAIDs, steroids, gold, penicillamine or immunosuppressants may be
needed, and if you're really unlucky the whole damn lot.

And there are a hell of a lot of people out there who would be delighted
to get as much as symptomatic relief and take their chances with the side
effects (from stomach ulcers to lymphoma).  Nobody in either conventional
or alternative medicine understands RA well enough to guarantee even that.
Some people see no way out but euthanasia, when any movement of any joint
in their body is scraping bone against raw, disintegrating bone.

Followups to alt.support.food-allergies.

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