Paul wrote in news
KenK wrote:


I'm pretty sure I have osteoarthritis. Trying to find OTC stuff for
help. Walmart Equate athritis pain meds help but I don't like taking
them very often. I suspect they're not good for you as a regular
diet. In this printout that I could read I found some herbs (curcumin
and ginger) that can help that are in pills I ordered from Amazon.
Who knows? They might halp.

https://www.drweil.com/vitamins-supp.../herbs/ginger/

Herb /drug interactions:

Ginger may act as a blood thinner, so use caution if you are
currently using anticoagulants.

curcumin (Tumeric)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12676044

Curcuminoids are components of tumeric, which include mainly
curcumin (diferuloyl methane), demethoxycurcumin, and
bisdemethoxycurcmin.

CONCLUSIONS:

Curcumin has been demonstrated to be safe in six human trials and
has demonstrated anti-inflammatory activity. It may exert its
anti-inflammatory activity by inhibition of a number of different
molecules that play a role in inflammation.

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In a pharmaceutical index, each drug has a "contraindications"
section. Some drugs, this covers two pages of pretty serious side
effects, requiring constant monitoring. When a doctor would prescribe
stuff, we would use the index at home to say "no thanks" when looking
a few of them up. Reading some of those, we would say
"what was the doctor thinking???".

Over the counter materials like the ones you seek, are generally
safe, or they'd have been removed from the store by now. But if
you dig deep enough, there are contraindications for those too.
It's a matter of finding someone who will admit to it. I could
probably find a hundred web pages extolling ginger root, before
finding one that would tell me there's a possible interaction
I should watch.

Paul


Thank you. Here's hoping. I'll supposedly be getting them today so I'll
soon find out. Probably a week or so before any indications.



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