Killing Pain Naturally with Herbal Magic

How does someone kill pain? Most of the time when pain, such as toothache, headache, migraine, cramps, pre-menstrual syndrome, and muscle pain occurs, the immediate reaction of a person is to kill that nasty pain. And the easiest way to alleviate that pain is by taking pharmaceutical drugs. While it’s true that prescription medicines and over-the-counter drugs help alleviate the pain, sometimes they also carry ill effects. These drugs may not be the only way to relieve the pain; and luckily, there are alternatives out there – natural pain relievers in medicinal herbal.

Learning about this natural and herbal pain reliever is an essential skill for everyone who is willing to explore other alternatives aside from the conventional pharmaceutical drugs. This natural method of pain killing is now popular for a lot of reasons.

Side Effects

Although synthetic prescription medicines are fast, effective, and convenient, they tend to carry with them ill side effects like stomach pains and sometimes liver damage because of long term use; it may also cause dependency to the person who is using it. He will become addicted to the medicine and thus his body will get used to thereby make it ineffective anymore. And worst of all, stopping it will eventually lead to withdrawal symptoms. Though generally this type of medicine treats the pain, it is only superficial for it may not really treat the cause of the underlying condition itself.

Budget

Although some are very budget-friendly medicines, a prolonged used will eventually cause a person a few dollars more.

These are just few of the reasons why people shifted to natural herbal pain relievers. While conventional medicines are found in drugstores, herbal remedies are readily available in one’s backyard. Here are some of the common herbal plants that are considered natural painkillers:

White Willow Bark

This is one of the most effective and popular herbal pain relievers. Taken from the white willow tree (salix alba), a compound called salicin found in its bark, is used to relieve pain for almost a century already. This works as a fever reducer; and because of this, it is often associated to aspirin and is usually known as “the herbal aspirin.”

Devil’s Claw

This is a native plant from South Africa and is now becoming a very popular herbal pain reliever today. Because of its natural healing and anti-inflammatory properties, it is now commonly used to relieve back pain, arthritis, and headache. This is commonly sold now in vitamins packed as a capsule or hot tea.

Teasel Root

This is a very popular Chinese herb used as a pain reliever. Research shows that its roots promote a healthy kidney and liver, as well as muscle and joint functions. It can also treat moderate back pain and can now be bought in many health and food stores in its natural form or in capsule.

Holy Basil

This is a natural anti-inflammatory plant that has been used to relieve a variety of ailments such as fever, moderate back pain, upset stomach, and headache.

This is also a very popular and powerful antioxidant which has been proven to greatly lower the level of stress. This can be found in capsule form at health food stores and can be added to a tea for enhanced calming effect.

Boswellia

This tree is derived from India and is commonly used to treat arthritis because of its natural ant-inflammatory and healing properties. This is now available in capsule also.

Ginger 

Because of its phytochemicals, ginger extract may help stop inflammation of joint and muscle.

What have just been discussed are just the common herbal pain relievers. There are also many other kinds of herbal pain relievers that are effective just like essential oils, such as peppermint, jasmine, rosemary, juniper, and rose, which are much known for their  pain-relieving properties. The lavender, for example, is also very helpful to those who are suffering from joint pain and rheumatism; it acts as an antifungal and antibacterial agent also.

Seeking instant and immediate relief from pain is what most people wanted. They take on pharmaceutical medicines without even thinking twice for its side effects. Now that herbal and natural painkiller  is here, the question is: how does one kill pain? Natural or synthetic, the answer is yours.