B. McRae

Hi -- Catriona

You want an "arthritis" natural healing testimony? I hope you are blessed by this one! (You're DEFINATELY on the right track!)

Your topic is a subject dear to my heart (and to my oints!)

In 1974, I was 40 years old, I was a "professional" housewife left with 2 teens and a 5 year old to raise alone, and had just been diagnosed with approaching blindness, (Dr. was gonna have to triple one lens and double the other!) and an accumulation of degenerative joint problems -- carpal tunnel, bursitis shoulder, tennis elbow, water on my knees, almost crippled fingers (I was a typist!) -- on and on -- finally lumped into one diagnosis, Degenerative Arthritis. (I watch out for labels -- even the RA and the other one you mentioned)

I was a MESS -- and had 3 kids to support -- I was DESPERATE! And QUITE a sick lady! I couldn't even AFFORD to have my eye-glass prescription filled.

Allopathic medicine said, "Nothing we can do for you, it's just your age. Here -- take this (mind altering drug) and expect to be in a wheelchair before long!"

JUST MY AGE!?!?!? At 41???!?!

Talk like that, dear friend, can improve your prayer life! It sure did mine!

I dropped to my knees, and said, "Lord, You said that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made." Those guys in the Bible lived HUNDREDS of years..."

Long story short -- I started hanging out at health food stores, and buying every book (well, I'm a bibliophile) I could find that MENTIONED joint pain.

Jump to now, I am a robust 68 year old grandma who drives a pair of mules to harness for the fun of it (well, lately, I TALK about it more than I do it, other stuff to do!) cut my own firewood in winter (really -- well, with a chainsaw!) and can outwork my kids and grandkids!

My eyes were CURED in 3 weeks! I never filled that prescription, and now wear almost the exact same eyeglass prescription I had on when they diagnosed blindness in 1974!!

Yep, the Lord cured me after that prayer -- only thing is, He didn't ZAP me like I thought He might! What He did was TEACH me how to care for the body the way He designed it!

And it all occured through those health food stores, and the books and info I got there about "natural" healing.

What I did was find out what was CAUSING the blindness -- AND the arthritis, and what was keeping my joints from STAYING put, when the chiripractor adjusted me -- and how to HELP me feel better, until I could STOP what was causing me disabling pain!

Now, you may think this is just another Texan telling tall tales -- but I promise you, I have much documentation to back me up! (More than 100 books in the bibliography of my 26+ year journal of the healing! I self publish it, and have never broke even, much less made any money on it -- don't even have it in print at the present -- and have no intentions of making money on it.) But I had to gather the info a bit here and a bit there, and when I put it all together, my puzzle was solved!

Voila! Just a total lifestyle change, and avoiding the elements that caused my pain (and my blindness) and some good de-tox, and I am pain-free!

Yes, things like massage I'm sure would have helped me, and the closest thing I came to it was a good chiropractor -- and yes, I subscribe to the herbal remedies. And yes, I take my calcium, and other supplements, including bromelaine.

I'm quite aware that this is a public forum, so am not about to tell any one what to do to get rid of arthritis and blindness, because I'm not a doctor -- just an investigative reporter and former ALMOST-invalid. (I didn't fall off no turnip truck!)

But for you, or anyone else who wishes to research it for oneself, just do an indepth study -- ask botonists, ask lay people who have gotten well, ask people who have beat the maladies -- and when you read "Not enough scientific evidence to support..." keep asking -- keep looking, -- keep on believing that you do NOT have to hurt!

I trust anecdotal evidence! I am SO blessed that SOMEbody put this "BOARD" up, so we can share "anecdotes" such as this.

You may wish to study the following poisonous elements that we (at least in our American society) either ingest, breath, or absorb into our skin!

Here's what I found to study:

SOLANINE POISON FROM THE PLANT FAMILY, SOLANACEAE. (Greives herbal book will help get you started)

REFINED SUGARS (a little book called Sugar Blues, by William Dunfy will get you started)

FLESH FROM ALL SCAVENGER ANIMALS (experience taught me this one -- only THEN, did I realize that the Scriptural laws warning against eating them was part of the Designer's plan! -- I'm not Jewish -- so I didn't think it applied to me! It wasn't for GOD, that He said "don't eat," it was for MANKIND!)

I came to the conclusion that the story In John 6, (I think it is) about that crippled guy who had been waiting 38 years for someone to put him into the "angel stirred waters," -- I think he had gone to the wrong place for healing! And I think that's what Jesus meant when He said what He did later, when He bumped into him in the Temple.

Happy study! and I hope that everyone reading this, will take responsibility for your own wellbeing! You live in that body -- and there was only one issued -- It's your responsibility to care for it -- not the doctors' -- not the pharmaceutical companies'!

Be blessed!

b

P.S. I'm in FULL agreement w/ your comment about some "knife happy" surgeons!

[This message has been edited by B. McRae (edited 07-14-2001).]

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