Name:
Katharina Delaplane
Location:
Palm Srings, Florida
Story:
Over the last 30 years, several incidents in my life have made me a devotee of alternative health care. The most pivitol incident started in 1993. I was 45 years old at the time and started to have serious athritis in my hands and knees. The disfiguration, due to the swelling of the joints in my fingers, was well in progress and I was in constant pain. My fingers had been in a permanent locked position and it did not look pretty. I was ready to go on the conservative treatment of steroids and pain medication. Then, one day listening to the radio, I heard an interview with a chiropractor about athritis and how people with this affliction should avoid all night shade vegetables. It made sense to me and I have avoided these vegetables ever since.
Within one month I was completely pain free and the disfiguration in my hands has itself reversed to almost normal. About 4 years ago, my hips started constantly aching in the aftermath of several car accidents. I started taking 2.000 mg MSM each day and was painfree within one week and have been painfree ever since. I would never be without my MSM. At age 48, my mentruation had stopped for three month, I had hot flashes, could not sleep, was restless.... and as miserable as I felt, I had to be moody. Listening to the same talk show, a naturepath mentioned Dong Quai in connection with menopause. I started taking it that day (I do not ever want to go on HRT because of the cancer risk), within one week the hot flashes had stopped, all the other symptoms had disappeared and I started menstruating again. I have taken Dong Quai ever since. At age 55, I finally transitioned into menopause. I am 56 years old now and during this last year, have had none of the usual symptoms of "the change". I had several others, but these are the most prevalent incidents.
