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4 Essential Herbs for Sciatic Pain

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4 Essential Herbs for Sciatic Pain

4 Essential Herbs for Sciatic Pain

Sciatic pain, also known as sciatica, can be mistaken with lower back pain or leg cramps. But sciatica is actually a symptom of another problem that is pinching or creating pressure on the sciatic nerve.

The sciatic nerve runs down each leg starting from the lower spine all the way to the feet, these, as a pair, are the largest nerves in the human body, providing movement, feeling, and strength to either leg. This problem can be identified by sharp, painful, burning sensations. or cramping, it can also present tingling sensations and numbness in different areas of the buttock, leg, or foot.

The following are 4 of the most powerful herbs that will help you get rid sciatic pain without pharmaceutical medication.

1. Jamaican dogwood
This herb is derived from the bark of the dogwood tree and has often been the top choice for relieving nerve pain. Even mainstream medicine agrees with its efficacy.
Avoid if you are a pregnant woman or lactating mother or if you have a congestive heart condition.

2. Turmeric or curcumin
Curcumin, turmeric’s active ingredient, is a natural anti-inflammatory that can be taken as a tonic to minimize chronic inflammation.

1 teaspoon Tumeric, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper and almond milk: to help relieve sciatic pain. It takes about a half hour to kick in.

3. Kratom
This herb is both fast and natural for pain relief, making you feel good, and it also helps overcome depression normally caused by many medications.

4. Arnica with DMSO
This combines a homeopathic topical cream with DMSO as an adjunct to give fast pain relief from sciatica. Adding DMSO speeds and deepens arnica’s topically applied efficacy while adding its own pain and inflammatory relief.

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