Wintergreen & Sweet Birch - The Last One

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Hey y'all,

 

Lemme say that IF I thought Wintergreen or Sweet Birch (Methyl

Salicylate) was a LAST RESORT .. I would use it on me and mine.

 

But .. it would have to be a last resort.

 

And .. I would not recommend .. or sell .. it to anyone else.

 

I say this because I recently went through some pretty bad pain and at

the time I would not have refused either if I had them on hand .. though

I later learned they wouldn't have helped me anyway.

 

While on my two month trip to the USA we covered 18 states and I drove

over 7,500 miles .. plus did some mountain climbing and fought one heck

of a lot of fish .. some were pretty dang big fish. ;-) To make a long

story short .. the next to last week I was having some terrible back

problems .. I thought it was sciatica. I couldn't walk, stand, sit or

spit without being in terrible pain. Sniffing Oregano EO did not work

so I figured it was not just sciatica. The pain was so bad I felt like

crying but I had to keep driving.

 

As soon as we pulled into Clarksville, TN, I put the family in a motel

and immediately went to a local Chiropractor .. he took X-Rays and

confirmed what I suspected since I had been down that road one other

time .. 5 or 6 years before. Two old injuries had caused my spine to

jack outta shape .. it was obvious from the X-Rays. That boy put a hot

electric pad on my back and hips and then gave me a few love hugs and in

a matter of minutes, I was a new man again.

 

Tanya had helped me to the car before I visited the Chiropractor .. so

when I came back around an hour later walking like a new man .. she was

impressed with Chiropractory. I visited the feller again the next

morning .. got a few more love hugs. This all went down around 19 or

20 August and to this date I have felt finer'n frog hair split three

ways. I am convinced that the majority of our aches and pains .. be

they in the back, legs, arms, neck, head .. or whatever .. can be taken

care of temporarily by a good Chiropractor. True it is that they don't

offer a permanent cure .. but they can fix the immediate problems and a

visit or 3 a year to one can keep us in good shape. Also true it is

that the majority of the medical doctors will want to operate when we

have such problems .. that sucks!

 

Anyway .. after having experienced the pain I had then .. I can easily

understand why folks would take the risk of continuous use of Methyl

Salicylate .. it does work. But there are other EO one could also try

that might work .. like Rosemary, Cineole and Black Pepper .. and before

I would resort to use of Methyl Salicylate .. I'd visit a Chiropractor

and maybe learn why I had these problems in the first place.

 

We have no Chiropractors here in Turkey .. that's one of many reasons I

have decided to come back to the USA in the Spring. I know that my

condition is not going to go away because those traumatic injuries have

developed into arthritis .. and I know that I am not going to restrict

my activity so as to avoid such pain .. so I gotta be around folks who

can take care of it when it hits me again. ;-)

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com