The pain that is caused by arthritis cannot be ignored. Science has yet to come up with a cure for this disease, and in the meantime, suffering patients have to make do with the medicines available now. However, because of the known side-effects of a number of these treatments, researchers have been in the quest to finding natural remedies for the disease.
Cherry is one of them and through the years, there have been a number of studies about the success of cherry in the fight to relieve pain from gout and arthritis:
1. In 1950, Ludwig Blau, in the Texas Reports on Biology and Medicine, testified to how cherries were able to cure him of gout. He said that before his discovery he had a very bad case of gout and was confined to a wheelchair but after eating six to eight cherries everyday the gout symptoms went away. All he had to do was to keep on eating cherries and he no longer had to suffer the debilitating pain of gout.
Cherries and arthritis
2. In 2003, there was an article published on the Journal of Nutrition that mentioned the anti-inflammatory benefits of cherries. The study made use of forty-five volunteers who each ate cherries while having their plasma urate being closely monitored. Plasma urate is known to be a pre-cursor of uric acid, which causes gout pain, and it was found that by eating cherries, their levels of plasma urate decreased significantly just five hours after they ate them.
3. Another research by Dr. Muralle Nair said that eating twenty or more cherries everyday can reduce the aching and swelling of gout, and if this is continued for life, then the gout symptoms will disappear.
The Magic of Cherries
There is still debate as to how cherries really manage this, but experts say that it is due to the photochemicals that are naturally occurring in a cherry fruit. Among the photochemicals that may be responsible for this are anthocyanins, melanonins and so many more, and these components somehow succeed in alleviating the patients of the pain and totally removing all symptoms of the disease.
With its taste and given that it is very natural, cherry is now becoming popular as relief for arthritis. However, since the fruit is highly perishable and only available during the summer, it is quite difficult to store. Fortunately, some manufacturers are able to freeze the cherries, now, and you can buy them in concentrated cherry powder and you can use this, all year long.
Science will continue to find answers. Among the many mysteries that they will attempt to solve is how to cure arthritis. But for now, put a cherry on it!
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