Choose Your Home Remedy For Back Pain – 7 Treatments To Try

This could be the most enjoyable home remedy for back pain. If you have a partner or family member who will pay close attention to your needs, he/she can do a great job of alleviating back pain without hurting you.

As with other remedies, massage can be done the right way FOR YOU, or a very wrong way. It’s possible that a professional massage can exacerbate back pain, making it worse. Thus, first consult with your doctor to find out exactly where and how your back pain occurs. The source of your pain will dictate if and how massage works for you.

Having your back massaged not only feels good, but it increases the blood and oxygen flow in the muscles, ligaments, tendons and fascia. The results can vary from a temporary reprieve to long-term relief.

6. Epsom Salt Bath

Start this wonderful, stress-reducing home remedy for back pain with lukewarm water. You don’t want your muscles to swell from hot water, and cold water is simply no fun.

Stress-triggered adrenaline drains magnesium and cortisol (natural stress relievers) from your body. However, if you replenish the magnesium your body needs with the Epsom salt baths, you may notice greater stability in moods and lower levels of stress hormones.

Like any remedy, results vary person-to-person, but I, for one, find an Epsom salt bath to be both my second favorite (next to massage) home remedy for back pain, but also to be extremely, immediately effective.

7. Diatomaceous Earth

If you’ve ever had a pool, you know that diatomaceous earth is used as a pool filtration type of substance. It filters out bacteria, particulate matter, fungi and parasites. This isn’t the same diatomaceous earth that you can use as a home remedy for back pain. There are three types of diatomaceous earth – pool-grade, garden-grade and food grade. The pool-grad and garden-grade versions are not edible.

Diatomaceous earth is a source of dietary silica, a nutrient that is not found in high amounts in the soil anymore. Silica is necessary for all connective tissue, and because your back is composed of muscles, bones, tendons and ligaments – all connective tissues – it makes sense that silica could potentially help cases of back pain.

For the past 3 years, I have been recommending that my nutrition clients with back pain use diatomaceous earth as a home remedy for back pain.

The dosage is 2 heaping tablespoons twice daily in a glass of water, juice or milk. The response has been tremendous, with many cases of back pain resolving significantly within a week or two. One client loved the diatomaceous earth so much that he told everyone who worked out at his gym, and just about the entire gym is using it. Expect some great success in stubborn injuries that won’t heal, too.

Now it’s time for a decision. Which home remedy for back pain will you use first?

Author

This article was written for Insights-on-Health.com in Oct 2013 by Dr Donna Schwontkowski. Reversing health disorders is easier when principles of natural healing are used. Dr Donna is a retired chiropractor with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nutrition and a master’s in herbology. She has over 25 years experience working with thousands of patients to reverse their health conditions. Read more about her here.

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