Re[2]: [lists] VCO & Broken Ribs?

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Yes, I used comfrey on my own broken (3) ribs. It healed rather quickly.

zoe

Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 5:17:19 PM, you wrote:

> Maybe this will work for you? comfry?

> http://www.herballegacy.com/testimonials260.htm

> Dear Sir or Madam:

> I was introduced to herbal medicine, quite by accident...literally.

> I was attending a seminar on some health related issue when an

> elderly woman I knew fell in the parking lot breaking a bone in her shoulder.

> She was taken to the emergency room of a local hospital for x-rays

> which confirmed that the bone was indeed broken. In fact, it was the

> ball of the bone that fits in the rotator cup of her shoulder that

> was affected. She had three hair-line fractures that radiated from the center

of the ball.

> After consulting a highly regarded, local orthopedist, she refused

> his medical treatment which was to include immediate surgery. When

> she refused, the MD told her that without his professional help, she

> would never have full motion of that joint again. He predicted that

> 10% to 20% motion would be the most she could expect without his

> help. She thanked him, but told him that it was her body and she

> wasn't going to allow him to perform any unnecessary surgery on it.

> Instead, she asked that I go to a garden where I found fifty large

> comfrey plants growing. I knew them only because of the excellent

> directions she gave on how to get to the garden and what the plants looked

like.

> I quickly gathered a 5 gallon bucket of the leaves and under her

> direction, used a double boiler to prepare a combination of steamed

> leaves and a tincture of the herbal active ingredients.

> When the leaves were steamed for a few moments, I let them cool,

> then placed them over her affected shoulder. Over this, I then

> placed a cotton diaper. Then I poured the rest of the cooled liquid

> from the double boiler to saturate the diaper. She may even have

> drunk some of it as tea, but I really don't remember the details.

> Next, I placed a sheet of flexible plastic over the diaper so that

> her bedding would not be damaged by the green juices. I then placed

> a heating pad over these layers ( leaves, saturated diaper and

> plastic ) and she sat there for probably a good half-hour while her skin

slowly absorbed the herbs.

> To relieve her pain, I would hold points on her hands and feet as

> she refused to take any pain medication.

> I ended up moving in with her as this treatment took a good two to three weeks

to be effective.

> However, after new x-ray's were taken three weeks later, no one

> could find the original fracture lines. To top this success, this

> elderly woman had retained the full 360 degree motion of her arm.

> It's pretty amazing that this " bone knitting " herb discovered by

> the American Indians had accomplished such wonderful results. It was

> amazing to me, but apparently not to her. However, she made a

> believer out of me and I've never looked back.

> Alan in Ohio

> Stuck

> [lists] VCO & Broken Ribs?

> Hmmmm VCO as it relates to a broken rib.

> Well - my wife carefully rubbed VCO on my broken rib ... and guess what?

> Nothing much happened ... [lots of laughs].

> I was hoping that somehow it would alleviate the pain ... but to no avail.

> So - who knows of tricks to help ease the pain of broken ribs?

> The doctor has written prescriptions for me for pharmaceutical

> pain killer but they make me light-headed and I can't drive.

> Ron

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