Arthritis Lower Back Pain in 75 Year Old Gone, Disappeared, Resolved, Cured?
My 75 year old father in law (FIL) had been suffering from arthritic lower back pain for a good many months. The nature of this lower back pain is it only becomes painful when he changes his position. Say he is seated down for some 15 minutes and he decides to stand up or twist and turn, that is when the pain comes. The same pain when FIL wakes up in the morning after lying down asleep for so long. This had been going on for 10 straight years!
His western medical doctor had no answer to his condition and said it was old age. His chiropractor could give him some minor relief but also said it was just old age. Well, we in the family believe there is no such pain or disease due to old age. Especially pain. That is a cop out and just plain unacceptable. So we kept trying, kept throwing ideas at FIL until he accepted one of them, this time, he accepted the help of acupuncture master Sifu Jem Sam.
Sifu Jem Sam gave his masterful acupuncture with burning herbs on the needles and proceeded to hand out traditional chinese medicine supplements. He has treated FIL with his acupuncture for 3 Sundays now. He also suggested oysters for FIL’s prostate health. A ha, there is the a ha moment there with oysters. I had been badgering FIL regarding eating raw oysters but he would always decline saying his western medical doctor had warned him oysters had too much uric acid in them. Bogus I kept crying out, these are raw oysters and raw oysters do no such thing but provide you with healthy bio-available zinc in the largest quantities. The aha moment is FIL believes Sifu enough to begin eating raw oysters.
I finally got raw oysters for FIL last weekend and this weekend. This lunch I asked FIL what miracles raw oysters have done to him and he says that raw oysters have stopped his arthritis, stopped the inflammation in his lower back arthritis.
How can oysters stop inflammation? First of all, inflammation is a healing process. Given all the materials it needs to complete the inflammation process of healing a part of our body, the inflammation is complete and that body part gets well. Chronic inflammation like this lower back pain may be caused by malnutrition in certain minerals such as the all important zinc. With healthy raw oysters providing the much needed zinc in voluminous quantities, the inflammation process, the healing process is given the minerals it needs to complete its job of repairing the body and the inflammation stops. So remember, inflammation is a healing process, give that body what it needs to complete the repairs.
The whole family chimed in that it was most probably a convergence of oysters plus the acupuncture, plus the other chinese supplements he was taking. Ha ha ha, FIL feels great now, pain free, “good for 120 years old” I said.
So it was a congratulations lunch for FIL while we feasted on yesterday’s party left overs: raw tuna, raw blue marlin, raw ripe mango, raw cucumber, sushi wrapper, some fish roe and some roast duck.
The lesson here is to never give up on your loved ones, your senior loved ones. Healthy, pain free living is for everyone. Let’s observe and hope this pain free experience lasts for a long, long time.