Homeopathic remedy for bursitis

What is Bursitis

Bursitis is inflammatory reaction of a bursa, which is a small fluid-filled sac that acts as a buffer to minimize friction between tendons joints, and bones. Most affected are places near large joints such as shoulders, elbows, knees, ankles and hip. Bursitis causes pain and stiffness in tissues around affected places, rather in joints itself.

Most common causes of bursitis are excessive physical activities, in cases when people are overusing some parts of their body, uncomfortable shoes or repeating movements. Homeopathic remedies can help in these cases.

Here is a list of such remedies. Homeopathic remedies have no known side effect, and are safe to use, but be sure to consult your doctor or homeopathic expert for dosage and frequency of use. Depending of remedy you choose for you cases of bursitis, you can apply it either daily or several times a day. If you do not see some results after reasonable period of time, use different remedy, or combination of several remedies, and then again wait for the results. Usual principle in usage of homeopathic remedies is to start slowly and see how it works, and than go from there.

Homeopathic Remedies for Bursitis

Here is a short list of homeopathic remedies that you can use in cases of bursitis. You can use them separately, according to instructions, or combine several of them.

Sulphur

Sulphur is recommended in the cases when person have problems with standing up for a longer periods of time and pain on the left side of the body.

Arnica

Recommended remedy for new injuries, to diminish pain and swelling. It should be applied as soon as possible after accident occurs.

Bryonia

Indications for usage of this remedy are cases when person can not be moved or even touched, due to a high level of pain. It relives the pain efficiently.

Ruta Graveolens

This remedy is usually used for pain management in cases of acute bursitis and extreme pain. It can be used right after injury occurs.

Kalmia Latifolia

This homeopathic remedy is recommended in cases of pain traveling downwards in hip or shoulder. Bursitis in shoulder is chronic and pain expends to wrist or elbow. Symptoms are worsening at night or from motion.

Sanguinaria

This remedy is especially effective with right shoulder bursitis, when turning in bed from one side to the other, or rising your arm up is accompanied with pain.

Belladonna

Best remedy for cases of bursitis when you feel throbbing pain and discomfort and a sensation of heat. Inflamed areas are red and swollen.

Rhus Toxicodendron

This remedy is recommended in cases when limited moves are not very painful, but extreme moves are. Application of warmth in painful places and hot baths relieves the pain.

Ferrum Phosphoricum

Good choice of remedy in cases of right shoulder bursitis. Pain travels downwards, all to the wrist, or upwards to the neck. Limited motions and cool applications are recommended.

Plant, and animal-derived nutraceutical preparations have been used for hundreds and even thousands of years to obtain effective pain relief. Herbal medications are becoming increasingly popular because of their relatively few side effects. Nevertheless, there are problems associated with these dietary supplements, and their use requires knowledge of their biological action, clinical studies (both affirmative and negative), and potential interactions with other nutraceutical products and prescription medications.

The evaluation of nutraceutical preparations with appropriately designed controlled studies has exploded in recent years. There is now a greater degree of confidence based on controlled study design and improved quality of the investigators that has strengthened positive findings found using natural compounds to treat diseases.

The processes used to prepare herb-derived compounds pose complications when it comes to determining the quantity and concentration of the products. The preparation processes are not standardized, and therefore, the extraction process and the type of plant used may affect the true concentration of the product.
Some manufacturers inflate nutraceutical products’ claims and may not cite possible side effects and potential drug interactions. Bleeding complications are associated with white willow bark, ginger, garlic, and others. Therefore, such medicinal preparations are not without risk.
Products such as omega-3 essential fatty acids do have strong scientific support to be considered as an alternative and/or complementary agent to NSAIDs. Published studies have shown the effectiveness of omega-3 to successfully treat spine-related pain.
Capsaicin, oil of camphor, and other natural topical preparations are commonly used for muscle soreness and local application for painful traumatic injuries.
As with any drug or natural compounds, additional caution should be used when considering these treatments for children, pregnant or lactating mothers or any other clinical or disease condition that could increase possible risk of side effect or complication.

The human body’s natural response to injury results in inflammation-induced pain, swelling, and erythema. In order to reduce pain, anti-inflammatory agents such as NSAIDs act on the multiple inflammatory pathways, which, although often very effective, can have undesirable side effects such as gastric ulceration and, infrequently, myocardial infarction and stroke. For centuries, natural anti-inflammatory compounds have been used to mediate the inflammatory process and often with fewer side effects.

✓ Fact confirmed: Natural anti-inflammatory agents for pain relief Joseph C. Maroon, Jeffrey W. Bost, and Adara Maroon; 2010 Dec 13.