Dr. Edward Bach was a qualified Allopathic doctor. Later he got his Degree in Homoeopathy and practised homoeopathy for a few years. Then he got fed up with homoeopathic way of treatment. He found it too complicated a system. To remember the drug-picture of hundreds of homoeopathic medicines, and to match them with the disease-symptoms of the patient, then find the correct potency suitable in a particular case is not an easy job, and then to co-relate the medicine with the previous case history of the patient,—his heredity, the previous incidents and accidents of his life, the possible effect of the various drugs used by him and the miasmatic effect implanted on his system—makes the choice of a suitable remedy still more difficult and time consuming.
Dr. Bach was a saintly person, having devout faith in God and His Creation—the Nature. He believed that the Nature which had produced innumerable living creatures and plants, and was always working towards the perfection of each individual life must have some simple means of maintaining the health of these living bodies.
What Dr. Bach understood from perfection of individual’s life was the living of healthy and happy life from childbirth till death—the ultimate union with the Creator.
Dr. Bach spent six long years roaming about in jungles and ravines, collecting information about how the various plants and then flowers situated in isolated places saved themselves from the vagaries of nature—rains, storms, tempest, sunshine, clouds, lightening etc. and continued to grow despite changes in the surroundings. He collected several plants & flowers and produced 38 medicines which correspond to 38 possible changes of man’s mood. These are called Bach Flower Remedies.
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For many women at high risk for osteoporosis, or who already have significant bone loss, or who had an early menopause (because of surgery or any other reason), HRT is the best regimen for health. When your bones are at risk, your entire life—and lifestyle—is at risk. Unless there is a medical reason, like having breast cancer, that trumps all other concerns, HRT is an extremely valuable adjunct to proper diet and exercise in the battle to keep your bones healthy.
Even with excellent nutrition and diligent exercise, the drop in estrogen at menopause presents a major challenge to your bones. The first line of defense against increased bone loss that every woman should consider is hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Its protective effect on bones is remarkable, especially when you are also following a healthy diet and exercise plan similar to the one laid out in this program. There are also very real— and really well publicized—risks associated with taking HRT, and it is not, medically speaking, for everyone. Many people have specific medical reasons not to take HRT. Many women have their own objections to a prescription drug meant to be taken for a lifetime for what is not, after all, a disease, but rather a natural part of the life cycle. So whether or not to take HRT is a very personal question that requires careful individual evaluation of your own situation.
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We have now discussed the three main categories of arthritis—gouty, rheumatoid and osteo. These three types combined include 95 per cent, of all victims of arthritis. Your case probably falls into one of those three classifications.
In addition, however, your arthritis may be complicated because you are also a victim of other rheumatic ailments at the same time. Therefore, let us examine several of the most common rheumatic conditions which are closely related to arthritis. We should understand these, too.
BURSITIS. When you develop pain in your shoulder muscles and calcium is forming in the bursae (the pouch or sac), the bursae have run out of oil. You are eating wrongly, or are over-exercising. You have bursitis.
NEURITIS. If the oil sheath which covers your nerves dries out, you have neuritis. Another way of saying it would be “rheumatism in your nerves.” Oils in your food are supposed to keep the nerve coatings intact. But only certain kinds of oil can perform the task.
Years ago, neuritis was known as neuralgia. Sciatic neuritis generally means that the oil has been stripped from over the sciatic nerve.
MYOSITIS. Working hard means that you tax many muscles in your body. When muscles have no oil to lubricate them, friction occurs in the muscles. You then acquire myositis.
INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM. Inflammatory rheumatism or rheumatic fever often strikes children. But what made the body or heart susceptible? We maintain that improper diet is one cause, faulty eating habits even at an early age.
FIBROSITIS. When your connective tissue or fibres become inflamed, you have “fibrositis.” Some experts claim this ailment is of mental origin. We suggest checking your diet, for a general lack of oils.
LUMBAGO. Often, lumbago (sacroiliac strain) is a forerunner of arthritis in the spinal column. Our body is warning us that we cannot run our motors without oil. We dry out and squeak on for years. Then what do we do? We apply mustard plasters or force ourselves to undergo X-ray treatments. Back stiffness means that your tissue fluids me gelling. Eat more oil-bearing foods.
Compare Your Body to an Automobile
In the paragraph above we stated that we “can’t 1 mi our motors without oil.” This applies to the “bodily motor” just as well as to the machinery in the family car. As you probably noticed, when we discussed each type of arthritis and all the rheumatic ailments, we kept mentioning the need for oil to aid recovery. To prove our point and make (his fact completely clear, let’s compare our human body to an automobile. We will find some very interesting parallels…
Your car has “joints” too. Its smooth functioning depends upon a constant supply of lubricating oils to prevent friction. Once the oil has run dry in your automobile, a grinding effect sets in and the parts cannot possibly function without damage.
With “dry joints” after 20,000 miles of driving, the bearings of the car and the fittings become “frayed” and worn out. No amount of grease or sprayed oil can ever repair the broken part. Adding oil at this late date will stop the friction. But the end of the joint will remain worn down.
When you take your automobile to a garage to be lubricated you are asking the garage attendant to “remove the arthritis” from your car. With grease and oil of varying consistencies, he can take away the joint friction from your squeaking vehicle.
By the same token joints of the human body are dependent upon the joint lining and the bloodstream for a constant supply of lubricating materials. Without obtaining oils from your daily diet, your joints will degenerate and break down.
It will be helpful for arthritics to know exactly what types of joints are involved in the disease. Here are the four main categories found in our bodies:
The ball-and-socket joint. A smooth, rounded head of bone fits into a cup-like socket of another bone, permitting motion in all directions. The shoulder and hips are examples of this type.
The saddle joint. Here the bones move in two directions. The spinal vertebrae are in this category.
The rotary joint. These can rotate about an axis, like a key in a door. The elbow is one rotary joint.
The hinge joint. This type moves in only one direction, like those in your knees.
Regardless of the type of joint, they are ALL surrounded by linings which will accept nutritional oils!
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