Ankylosing spondylitis is exactly the type of spinal arthritis I have, and you are exactly right. I'll dig up some of the stuff I've written on AS. In Chinese Medicine, the underlying energetic pattern is extreme yin dryness. MD's will always tell you that AS is rheumatoid arthritis, but it is NOT. It is PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS, which I had never heard until I can here and was taking a TCM Dermatology course. Interestingly, at the electroherbalism site, there is a set of frequencies for AS combined with psoriasis. The etiology of psoriasis is extreme yin dryness and dehydration. Thanks for the info about the gelatin treatments. I'll share what I've found to work as well. HYDRATION, acupuncture, qigong, herbs (properly designed formulas, modified to fit the individual) and Rolfing. (Reichian body oriented psychoanalysis, but that's hard to find, so do Rolfing instead.) Tell me about this knox gelatin treatment! Right now, I'm experimenting with essential oils, matching their functions and indications with those of acupuncture points. Very promising.
----- Original Message ----- From: Brooks Bradley To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 5:55 PM Subject: [RE]CS>Spinal Arthritis Dear Steve, Your wife has my heartfelt sympathy. I suffered from PRONOUNCED ankylosing spondylitis for many years (between ages of 30 and 50), during which interval the allopathic community failed to gain ANY distinct relief.....for me. My case was considerably aggravated by the fact I have a congenital deformation of the 5th lower lumbar (a region which very often presents a major insult). Circa about 1980, I was forced to start sleeping on an inclined 2" X 12" X 8' wooden plank......with the head-end resting on the outer edge of a heavy captain's chair.....in order to obtain any measurable degree of pain relief-----not to mention sleep. By 1990 (via continual pain killers, hot saunas and a HIGH-tenison, compression-type spinal brace), the discomfort....and outright pain, although episodic in nature----had reached a point that nothing I attempted effected any measurable pain reduction....for any extended period of time (hours). Quite serendipitously, I stumbled across a medical article by some Chinese researcher....on the benefits of utilizing gelatin obtained from cattle carcasses (plain Knox-type) aiding in the re-establishment of eroded cartilage-type tissues. As a "drowning man would grasp at a straw", I initiated a protocol which included a pronounced intake of Knox gelatin (about four small boxes daily). I began to enjoy noticeable improvement within 5 days....and PRONOUNCED improvement-----within 20 days. Overjoyed, I informed my associates of this splendid turn of events. Several of them (five, in fact) were experiencing similar....if not as overpowering....disagreeable spinal presentations. All five initiated my basic protocol. When two of them reported similar WONDERFUL results, as mine....three reported little, if any, marked relief.
