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Sulfur Cream and Castor Oil
Posted by Wideawake (Chicago, Illinois, Us) on 12/10/2012
★★★★★
CURE ALL PAIN with 10% sulfur cream and castor oil. I suffered with bursitis for 4 years, I tried everything under the sun. This stops the pain immediately.
Apple Cider Vinegar
Posted by Stephen (Birzebbugia, Malta) on 05/18/2010
★★★★★
Bursitis cured with ACV. I am over 50 and had a bad fall, landed on my elbow. It swelled and thought it would go away, it didn't. Three months after I started putting ACV on it, and it remained the same.
Then I soaked a piece of cloth in ACV, kept it on the swell with an elbow support sleeve, almost day & night, and after one day it went down by 15%. I also was careful not to hit it again. On 2nd and 3rd day, down by 75%. That ugly swell has gone and hoping for a complete healing.
Cayenne
Posted by Richard (Winston Salem, North Carolina) on 06/23/2008
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cayenne pepper rememdies: cayenne pepper foot baths will completely cure bad feet, although if you continue to work on hard floors the cure might need to be repeated every so often. also, cayenne pepper does wonders on hemorrhoids when mixed with an otc ointment (not vaseline). go very light on this one and be ready to wash it off yourself if you cant stand the burning. i've also tried cayenne pepper in a vaseline salve that i made on the cookstove that completely cured the bursitis in my shoulder.
Castor Oil
Posted by Sandra (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) on 06/16/2015
★★★★★
I just used a thick paper towel and it worked great, I don't have a heating pad so I put a hot hand towel over the paper towel and then a plastic bag over that. It worked fine.
Apple Cider Vinegar
Posted by Cathy (North Carolina)
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I have been suffering for 2 years with bursitis and osteoarthritis in my hip. I have been on all kinds of medications for this, and it feels better as long as I don't stop my meds. I have been in so much pain that I could not hardly walk. I started taking ACV for 2 days now and my legs are not even hurting. I have so much more energy than I had before. This is so much better than medications.
Magnesium Oil
Posted by Rose (Oregon) on 03/08/2019
★★★★★
Bursitis Pain:
Magnesium Oil (Magnesium Chloride Brine) rubbed deeply into my increasingly painful shoulder & upper arm for about 5-10 minutes, reduced incapacitating pain 90%! Thanks to all who posted your experiences with bursitis improving with magnesium!
I had no Milk of Magnesia, but realized the Magnesium Oil in my cupboard massaged directly where it hurt might work even quicker. Almost immediately I began to get pain relief, so I just kept spraying on more, and massaging it in (including under the arm) until the pain largely disappeared. I plan to keep doing this daily. (Had it not worked, I would have added a little DMSO, but that was not necessary.) Recent slight Charlie Horses should have been my wake up call that I needed Magnesium.
I'm thanking God, Earthclinic, and all of you who share your knowledge! I trust this works for others!
Magnesium Oil
Posted by Art (California) on 03/10/2023 2891 posts
Hi Kristi,
You said you are using the mag oil as I suggested for sleep. Is it helping you to get to sleep and are you applying it to the areas I mentioned?
Thank you for the feedback!
Art
Multiple Remedies
Posted by Lisa (Ma) on 04/13/2018
★★★★★
I got bursitis in medial inside ankle... burning crushing pain...I soaked in Epsom salts and oregano oil and cayenne pepper! ...it helps! Take it internal too a bit...also drink fire cider and my number one is chlorella - it has RNA also called chlorella growth factor.. I'm off crutches and yes as it resolves the pain lessons it is a stubborn angry swollen angry illness!
Cold Laser Therapy
Posted by Colleen (Toronto, Canada) on 07/28/2020
★★★★★
I tried 3 sessions of the cold laser therapy on my hyperextended knee problem and it was cured from over 20 years of pain... they called it Theralase cold laser therapy and it worked for me...
Potato
Posted by Elaine (Oklahoma) on 09/29/2013
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Years ago my dad had hip pain. He was a diesel mechanic and stood on his feet all day. He worked with an older man who told him, "The next time your wife goes to the store, have her to get you the smallest sweet potato she can find. Then stick it in you hip pocket. " My mom had me to search out a small potato and put in the basket. My dad did the pocket thing and he said he did get relief from his pain. A few weeks later he walked in the door from work and said, "Here, catch. " He tossed something at me and said, "What is that?" I caught it and looked closley at it. It didn't look like anything I had really seen before. I said, "A rock?" He said, "No, guess again. " I looked at some more and saw there were wrinkles in it, so I said, "A nut?" He said "No, give up?" I couldn't guess what it was and then he told me it was the sweet potato after being in his pocket for at least a month. That thing looked and felt like a river rock! My dad kept a sweet potato in his pocker for some time after that and after a while the pain in his hip disappeared AND he no longer had to go to the doctor to have his shoulder scraped with bursitis. Ted, care to speculate as to why this worked?
Vegemite
Posted by Sunshine757 (Perth, Wa Australia) on 01/05/2012
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I had bursitis in my hip for months. My Gp told me to exercise (walk and swimming). With little effect I saw a naturapath and end result was sugggested to eat vegemite spread on cracker biscuits or grainy bread and winter put 1 heaped tsp stirred in casseroles etc. After a few days my bursitis is pain free and after continual use I find that my arthritis in my right hip has improved heaps. I continue to eat vegemite. I'm swimming training more often in summer these days and find that my arthritis is still there but better.
Apple Cider Vinegar
Posted by Rueth (Cádiz) on 01/08/2024
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Remember the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill? Well he bandaged his head with vinegar and brown paper...this has been used for decades! I had tendonitis of the wrist once and soaked a bandage in AVC, bandaged my wrist and put cling film on it all to stop dripping everywhere. I left it a few hours...you have to be careful this stuff burns your skin...and it worked like magic. That was years ago! I'm here now with knee bursitis and going to try the same treatment 👍
Milk of Magnesia
Posted by Wilson (Calgary, Alberta) on 07/28/2011
★★★★★
I have suffered with hip bersitus for almost 2 years now. I stumbled on this web site and started taking Milk of Magnesia yesterday in the pill form. I took 2 pills 3 times yesterday and I have taken 4 pills so far today. OMG! I can't believe the difference in that short time (better). It is really working for me. Thank you all so much for the relief of pain in the last 2 day! I will contuinue to take this for another few days and I am confident it will be totaly GONE!
Cayenne
Posted by Mama To Many (Tennessee, Usa) on 01/25/2014
Dear Michele,
The person who wrote the original post has not been around for a while. Here is a recipe for cayenne salve that you can try.
Cayenne Salve
½ cup oil (olive, coconut or a combination)
1 Tablespoon cayenne pepper powder
½ ounce beeswax
Mix the cayenne into the oil. To make an infusion of the oil, heat this in a double boiler for an hour or two. You can also just let the cayenne sit in the oil for a week, but that takes longer, obviously. Strain out the cayenne through a couple of layers of cheese cloth and discard the cayenne. Melt the beeswax into the oil. You can use your double boiler again. When the beeswax is melted, pour into jars or tins. If it ends up too hard, melt in a little bit more oil. If it is too soft, add a little more beeswax. You can add the contents of a few vitamin E capsules (Just cut them open and squeeze out the vitamin E) to help preserve it. It should stay good for about 6 months.
I would use extra virgin coconut oil (6 Tablespoons) and 2 Tablespoons castor oil, since both of those have healing properties. If the beeswax is difficult to get, you can skip that step and just have cayenne oil.
Let us know if this helps!
~Mama to Many~
Blackstrap Molasses
Posted by Julie (Cockermouth, Cumbria, England) on 05/30/2010
If you don't like the taste of Blackstrap molasses then I really recommend taking it in porridge with milk. My kids, aged 8,6,3,1 all love it and request it. Also, I recommend substituting golden syrup or treacle with BSM if you are doing any baking. I often put a spoonful into whatever I'm baking and it gives a lovely richness to stews and casseroles.
Blackstrap Molasses
Posted by Mika (Oregon) on 03/17/2024
Hi Linda, I think many here refer to the backstrap molasses, I get mine from Amazon and it's really helped my elbow & wrist pain. I had a bad carpal tunnel attack about 2 months ago & read on here about the back strap molasses. I take one tablespoon with my morning coffee & occasionally in the evening, after 24 hours of my first dose the carpal tunnel attack has subsided enough where I felt I was back to my normal, so I've continued to take it. Don't know if it makes a difference, but the first couple doses I took straight from the spoon, I like it much better in my coffee, I need NO sugar when I use this.
Magnesium Oil
Posted by Susan (UK) on 03/30/2026
Hello Kristi, I'm very familiar with the underarm swelling and breast bone pain as are some of my acquaintances. I would definitely keep up the magnesium spray but I find Lugol's iodine almost miraculous for breast pain, underarm lymph etc. I apply it neat on damp cotton wool. Hope it works for you.
Susan
Turmeric Tea, Stretching
Posted by Ella (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne ) on 07/15/2018
★★★★☆
These things seem to help with my hip bursitis.
Ibuprofen in the short term.
Green tea with a quarter teaspoon of turmeric powder, ground black pepper and a teaspoon of honey added and stirred. This had a noticeable effect. One or two of these drinks per day seems to be enough.
Gentle stretching exercises and squatting on the floor in the foetus position for five minutes. This seems to help too.
The most useful piece of advice I can offer, however, is to abstain from twisting whilst bending or picking something up. Never bend and twist at the same time.
Manganese
Posted by Jedi757 (Portsmouth, VA) on 08/10/2014
★★★★★
I used manganese to heal my bursitis. I took a mega dose every morning for two weeks and I no longer have any pain in my elbows or my knees. I'm going to continue to take it until the bottle is gone but I don't think I'll renew the bottle unless the bursitis comes back.
Milk of Magnesia
Posted by Betsey2u (Troy, Mi) on 02/21/2013
★★★☆☆BETTER BUT WITH SIDE EFFECTS
I have been down a rocky road recently, .. Spine issues and arthritis, .. Weeks before this I had a painful shoulder, .. In between appts I mentioned it to my doctor who advised me to do physical therapy. Bursitis, Tendinitis he told me and that I didnt want to get frozen shoulder. And I said no to physical therapy and he gave me exercises to do. Fine and well. But one day I woke up and felt like my arm was going to fall off. I think I actually did get frozen shoulder, .. I dont know. And I noticed my right upper side the affected shoulder area was in major pain and was starting to look deformed! I found this site and the MOM idea and I did 2 tblsp, .. At first when I went to the store I thought this was a heartburn medicine and then when I saw that it was a laxative!! I was like whoooooooooooooaaa because that is the least of my problems. And I took 2 tblsps. Was in the bathroom within a couple hours but I was moving my arm and shoulder around like crazy. It was like pain relief. Major. Next morning I felt a little weak and was also drinking gatorade.. But now I am waiting a day and will try maybe only 1 tblsp. tomorrow. I have to wonder what a person is depleting by useing Milk of Magnesia???? That stuff flushes you out major, . But I swear my arm feels atleast 50% or more better today. And what I couldnt move I can move today and now am hearing clicks in my shoulder. Which would have never been there if I couldnt move it at all lol. So I think it is good!
sounds like a good thing! Buttt, . As I told my friend about all this she mentioned her constipation issues and I told her from what I read magnese (magnesium?) in vitamin form at certain levels are laxative effect also and she said that explained her all of a sudden regularity. And she asked about my vitamins. And I had read that iron may effect that as that is what I found in my multi vitamin. so I wont take that anytime soon.
So all I am saying is for people like myself coming across this information, .. Please be careful. My unaffected arm was shaking this morning because it may have dehydrated me. So I dont know how people could take 2 tblsp of this stuff twice a day! I dont have that much stuff to evacuate to begin with lol. If anyone has any info on what to replenish besides gatorade, . Or what to eat while doing such a thing I would love to hear about it. When I looked up gatorade and MOM I got nothing but what one would do before having a colonoscopy! But I have to say thumbs up because I havent felt this good in months!!
Sulfur Cream and Castor Oil
Posted by Alice (Mississippi) on 11/22/2015
Where do you purchase the sulphur cream?
Glucosamine
Posted by Brian (Phoenix, Az) on 01/05/2012
I have aggressively been strength training and cardio training in order to come back to my pre-marriage weight. I weighed 205 pounds when I got married, and now I weigh 245. I was an athletic male and never had knee pain. The other day I exercised rather vigorously. My knee froze up on me in the middle of the night and I expeirenced extraordinary pain the next morning. I immediately iced to reduce swelling and "up'ed" my supplements.
ONE THING is never the cure - the body functions as a cohesive system, therefore one cure doesn't always work.
- On an empty stomach I took 2 tablespoons of ACV (raw organic) 3 times daily.
- With a meal I took a multivitamin (whole food), vitamin C 1500mg(antioxidant, great for removing healed debris), glucosamine (the entire suggested amount per day, 3 capsules), triple magnesium complex(DV - this is important because magnesium gets depleted rather fast with injury or other healing pains), and finally siberian eleuthero (DV - this allowed me to muscle through the pain so I could keep my mobility)
- soaked in a hot bathtub with epsom salt for 30 minutes, when I got out I stretched all the muscles in my leg, slowly, easily.
- Then I massaged my leg in a way that forced blood to the affected area.
It is
day three now, and I feel fantastic. I still have extreme soreness in the tendons and muscles around my knee, but the sharp, piercing pain is gone.
I suggest to everyone, to use a combination of things that you feel will work for YOUR body.
THIS WEBSITE ROCKS ;)
Vitamin B12, Pecans
Posted by Alison (Jasper, Georgia USA) on 05/14/2007
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My friends' chiropractor told her this remedy and she passed it on to me. After each meal take a handfull of pecans (enough to cover your palm) and eat them along with a B6 phospate. I couldn't do this since I HATE all nuts, so I began by grinding them up, but then found you can buy them already ground. I take two tablespoonsful in a small amound of water, along with a bit of grapefruit juice (doesn't taste so bad this way), along with the B6 phospate after each meal. It took about a month before I started to see results, but it worked! Bursitis in my hip is gone and I only do the treatment now about once a day. I've added in ACV and I'm sure that will keep it away.
Manganese
Posted by Denis (Luo Dong Township, Taiwan) on 05/12/2007
★★★★★
Some years ago I had a hair mineral analysis done. In general, the profile of minerals was on the low end of the normal range. However, copper was only about 85% of the minimum considered normal and manganese was only about 50%. I have severe food allergies and apparently the inflammation is interfering with normal mineral absorption. I have always been athletic and have more or less kept up a regular schedule of aerobic exercise for the last 38 years or so. One type of exercise I have had trouble doing is dips. Beginning in my late teens, whenever I started doing dips, I would get severe bursitis and have to quit. It was not until I was in my late forties that I had this hair mineral analysis done. I went to a local chemical shop and bought the purest form (high quality lab chemicals manufactured in Japan) of Manganese Chloride I could find. I began taking small quantities, only a few tiny crystals a day. Before long, for the first time in my life, I was able to do dips without getting bursitis. Now, caution is warranted. I knew I was low in manganese. However, it is a trace mineral, and too much can cause nervous system damage. After several years, I more or less forgot about it and my shoulder joints starting getting weak again. Two falls on two separate occasions resulted in dislocating both of my shoulders within the last year. Now, I am taking a little more, about 90 mg a day in order to strengthen my shoulder joints. I also have a very weak liver, and I suspect that manganese deficiency is a big part of this as well. If you want to try manganese chloride, first make sure you have a deficiency and then, take no more than 50 mg a day of the pure manganese, i.e. you must figure the weight of the choride and water molecules attached.
Vitamin B12
Posted by Anonymous (USA)
★★★★★
Dr. Jonathon V. Wright says that taking 1000 mcg. shot of B12 every day until the pain goes away and then a couple more to make sure you have enough, always works.
Popcorn Elbow Remedies
Posted by epeach (United States) on 05/10/2020
★★★★★
Topical DMSO is what I recommend. Apply it with clean hands and elbow with a sterile cotton ball or gauze. You can purchase it at a feed store or Tractor Supply. It draws fluid away. They use it on million dollar race horses and NFL players.
ACV, Molasses, Ginger, Castor Oil Packs
Posted by Diane (Opa Locka, Fla) on 09/22/2015
Can you pls text me the exact measurement for all remedies & do you continue to feel better? God Bless.
Milk of Magnesia
Posted by Sammer (Clevedon, Uk) on 10/27/2013
Okay, been away since Friday but can confirm that the following day I had the same dosage - 3 x 10ml totalling 30ml a day for two days and the pain was gone by Friday morning - 48 hours after first dose.
What has aggravated the situation is my young son - bless him - who likes nothing more than to pullme around when he doesn't like the plan! That and having to walk everywhere. But the pain has gone and I believe it's in large part down to MOM, despite the side effects.
Nice one Earth Clinic!
Milk of Magnesia
Posted by Susan (Leominster ) on 07/18/2016
Take coconut water for dehydration
Alternating Heat/Ice Therapy
Posted by Rainman (Central, Vt, Usa) on 05/27/2010
I would like to add to my post after thinking back. I must admit that I was also taking some other things that could've possibly helped my speedy recovery. The 2 that stick out are VCO (vigin coconut oil) and I was also taking OoO (oil of oregano). The oil of oregano was for infection I had in my tooth and the VCO was just because I started OP (oil pulling) with it and really loved the taste.
Perhaps I was getting the full benefits once I started to get the blood flowing to the joint? Just thought I should mention in-case someone wants to give those a try as well.
Therapy
Posted by Fil (Lisbon, Portugal) on 01/25/2009
★★★★★
A few year ago I was diagnosed with calcific bursitis (13mm) on my shoulder. Of course you must check your trace elements and try to rebalance them (that is the key for all health issues). Apart from this, what I did that made it disappear in one year's time was:
1. accupuncture 2. chinese phytotherapy (plant extracts under the name of Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang) and 3. chiropractor sessions to straighten my back and shoulder massages (rather painful actually, but a few seconds per session is a small price to pay for the benefits).
Castor Oil
Posted by Lisa (Thousand Oaks, Ca, Usa) on 11/05/2012
Hi Lance, Castor oil packs are easy to make. You need to get yourself some wool flannel which can be found at most health food stores. (They give you a substantial amount. ) And get some castor oil. This can be messy so you'll want to use a bowl or a glass container big enough to hold the flannel wool. Cut enough to cover the body part you are using it for and fold it into a square. Then you want to saturate it with the castor oil but it doesn't need to be dripping.
What I do is then put my pack on and cover it with plastic so it doesn't stain my clothes. Castor oil does stain so make sure you wear clothing that would be okay if that does happen. Then, I put a heating pad over it. You should have it on for at least 45 minutes for it to be effective. When you're done you can store it in a plastic bag and keep it in a cool place or in the refrigerator.
Hopefully, I've made these instructions clear enough for you. Wishing you the best, Lisa
Castor Oil
Posted by Mama To Many (Tennessee) on 05/26/2015
I do not know why wool flannel is required. To be honest, when I make castor oil packs, I just use old pieces of cotton flannel, and I have positive effects.
~Mama to Many~
