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December 4, 2008, 9:22 pm
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Are there herbal treatments that could be used for back pains, or any other type I guess as well. I hate the idea of taking pain killers as they can be so addictive as well most I have tried in the past do not agree with me.

The best thing I could recommend would be a combination of heat and massage. Heat pads are excellent, and the massage can involve soothing oils.

A friend of mine was having some severe back pain, she blended some beet root and some carrot and drank without any sugar or other sweetener and eventually the pain stopped.

I thought I had heard about beets before and wondered if it was that or carrots I was thinking about. I guess it was both. It seems there are herbal treatments for almost anything lately and its hard to tell which are legit and which are just spam.

Usually when it's spam, they have it available to sell you. But I have heard about using beet and carrots, I have actually tried it myself.

Herbs.lovetoknow.com is an excellent resource for natural herbal remedies. This in not a site promoting supplements but actually tells you how to prepare your own herbs for various types of remedies.

For your back pain it would depend to some degree on what is causing the back pain. I have a bulged disc my pain is usually caused by inflammation. I was advised initially by a doctor to put heat on it and keep it loose. Bad advised within a couple days I was completely immobile. It this case the right thing to do was apply ice to my lower back.

How do you keep your back loose or did he mean the heating pack around it (which tends to make more sense while I think about it). I always thought for any type of possible swelling it was always ice first then heat.