THERE'S AN OPTION FOR PEOPLE WITH COLITIS
Colitis is a very painful condition. There's now a natural method you can use to stop the pain.
It's called curcumin which is the active ingredient in the spice turmeric.
It may help reduce and prevent colon inflammation. You can now purchase it in supplement form.
A study reported in the Journal of Pain found that having a daily spiritual ritual or experience can help people with chronic pain feel better.
They had 35 people with rheumatoid arthritis keep daily diaries that rated their religious coping strategies, pain levels, mood and social support. People who had less pain had religious and coping strategies that worked for them personally.
Using Your Mind To Relieve Arthritis Pain
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine have been busy. They also researched the impact of a meditation technique called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on chronic arthritis.
The researchers found that people with rheumatoid arthritis who practiced MBSR for 6 months were 35% less distressed than those who didn’t use this method – even though their physical disease progressed at the same rates as the control group.
Other studies have shown that MBSR works to reduce pain by constantly refocusing the mind on the present moment. To learn how to do MBSR read Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn.