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Hi Rhi, welcome to the group.

 

You have not said how the injury was caused and who diagnosed that it was a

ligament injury.

 

For the pain, you cannot do any better than lots and lots of organic

pineapple - if you like pineapple, you are getting a treat and a pain killer as

an

additional extra.

 

As for the heat/cold alternating, sometimes you can be doing the wrong thing

with this. Some injuries require heat and others require cold. You must get

a proper diagnosis before self treating or you could do more harm than good.

Let's face it, the medical profession are there to be used and cannot do any

harm when it comes to just allowing them to diagnose. If anything is

prescribed we can either refuse it or not take it.

 

I am sure that others will give you a lot more advice but that is about all I

can think of for the moment.

 

Marianne

 

 

> Hi, now that I've lurked around a bit, I thought I'd

> introduce myself. My name is Rhi, I'm a 33 y.o.

> mother of 2 teenaged daughters and wife of an awesome

> man who is in the Air Force. As a family we always

> try to seek alternatives to traditional medicine

> before running off to the doctor, but we are pretty

> new to doing this. We've been moving toward

> alternative healing for about the past 4 years.

>

> My question is this: Does anyone know of anything

> that will help to ease the pain of, and to heal injury

> to the ligaments in the knee? At this point, poultices

> of comfrey have been helping a bit and alternating

> heat and cold help too, along with fresh feverfew to

> help with pain. Perhaps I'm a bit spoiled and whiny

> but right now, nothing seems to help and I'm still a

> bit of a chicken about some things like acupuncture.

>

>

> -- Rhi

>

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