I have read recently several people claiming that you are wasting your money on vitamins and alternative medicine doesn’t work.
I start my story 28 years ago. I had just gone to the dentist and he told me I was going to have my gums cut back as the gaps had grown too large and that was all they could do in those days. I went to work and was complaining to my work partner and he left to his van and came back with a bottle of CO-Q10. He told me he couldn’t let the dentist to that to me and that the first bottle was free.
Within a week my gums started to bleed less and the constant pain was less. A month later I went to my next dentist appointment he was going to start the procedure to cut back my gums. He took one look at my mouth and instantly wanted to know what I had done as he had never seen anyone's mouth heal as much as mine and I no longer needed the procedure.
I have since learned that until around 50 your body produces Q10. Your body stores Q10 in your gums and in your heart. It starts to take from your gums first, then your heart.
I don’t take any other vitamins, but I do take on occasion some Chinese herbs. I have one that in the case I get a cold, it keep it from going down into my chest. I have had stomach pain all my life and when it happens I have some Chinese herbs to take the pain away. I also have a tincture for immediate stomach relief.
My body makes lots of mucus and I woke up sick every morning for years until I started working for an acupuncturist and he turned me on to special Chinese herbal mixture I cooked. Within a week I was no longer sick in the morning and I could breath better. I have since replaced that with an American herb tincture that grows here in the northwest. I can take deep breaths without coughing for the first time since catching Valley Fever as a child.
Being a seamstress and secretary all my life I started having shooting pain up my right arm. I could no longer open jars and even squeezing a sponge send sharp pain up my arm. I started acupuncture, the first week I didn’t notice much the second week my arm turned into a rock and I had never felt such pain. If my acupuncture hadn’t come free with my job, I might not have gone back, but I did and complained of the increased pain. She put about a dozen needles in my forearm and hand and the needles jumped almost the entire hour. Slowly over the evening my arm started feeling better and by the next morning I couldn’t believe how much pain was gone. It took about 2 months of once a week to return total use of my hand.
That was 5 years ago, I can now open jars and my strength returned to my hand. Twice in the last 5 years have thought I felt some pain in my hand and had a couple refresher treatments.
My free rescued cats from Catalina Island came with kitty herpes. I was having to buy and put in his eyes medicine every day to save his eyes. My vet suggested that I try L-Lysine as he had heard good things. At 1000 milligrams a day and my female started to heal, but it took 1500 a day to keep my male in good health. At the time they were in constant care of the vet as I was concerned about the amount of L-Lysine, he assured me they were fine. My male was eaten by a coyote a few years ago, but my female who is now 12 just had a vet appointment and they were impressed how healthy she is. She still gets her L-Lysine, I open caps and mix them with meat baby food. Yes, she is spoiled.
But my point alternative medicine is good for us and our pets.