Soothe Pain In Your Joints, Legs And Lower Back With This Proven Anti – Inflammatory Drink Recipe

The lack of physical activity and spending most of your time sitting can be the reason for pain in your ankles, legs, knees and back.

This situation becomes even worse as we grow older. A prolonged state of inactivity can have grave effects on your physical strength, weakening your muscle structure. These pains can also come as a result of many other different factors, like: strains, sprains, gout, osteoarthritis, etc.

Chronic back pain can make your everyday life a living hell, and reflect itself on your capability of performing even the simplest tasks.

If the pain is persistent and refuse to go away for longer period, the situation can deteriorate to the extent that it becomes practically impossible for you to either stand or sit. Even going to sleep becomes a torment.

Pain in the legs can come as a consequence of spending long hours standing, or as a result of old age, bone or ankle injury, strained tendons, muscles or ligaments. It can also be triggered by poor blood circulation.

Certainly, you can try alleviate these pains with some of the pain medications available at your pharmacy, or you can make yourself a natural pain-relieving drink with this recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 orange
• 1 lemon
• 2 tablespoons turmeric powder (or 2” turmeric root)
• 1 tablespoon ginger powder (or 1” ginger root)
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• 1/4 tablespoon black pepper
• 2 cups pineapple
• 2 celery stalks

Preparation:

Peel the lemon and orange. In case you decide to go with fresh ginger and turmeric roots instead of powder, also peel the roots. Clean the pineapple removing the core and cut it into chunks.

Blend all the ingredients well. Try using fresh and organic produces to avoid consuming harsh chemicals, pesticides or heavy metals. If you don’t have a blender, you can process them in a juicer.

However, this will result in throwing away all the dietary fiber. By blending them you can exploit all the nutrients more fully.

It is generally believed by the health experts that increasing the consumption of fiber and vitamin C results in reduced production of C-reactive protein in your body.

This protein is regarded as a sign of inflammation, and is associated with some illnesses like heart disease, diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Health characteristics

Celery abounds in vitamin K. When our body has vitamin K deficiency we can experience bone mineralization and abnormal cartilage.

Lemon provides large quantities of vitamins C and E, probably the strongest antioxidants. These two vitamins protect our body cells from the adverse effects of free radicals. In addition they help the building of strong connective tissue and collagen.

Pineapple contains bromelain which is very efficient in relieving joint pain. Another of its properties is alleviating the inflammation induced by arthritis. According to scientific evidence this enzyme is packed can be much more efficient than non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

A study published in The Journal of Alternative Complementary Medicine in 2009, brings to our attention that turmeric has extremely high concentration of curcumin.

This ingredient is responsible for relieving knee pain in patients with osteoarthritis, thus improving its function. In terms of potency it’s on the same level as ibuprofen, maybe even better.

In addition the turmeric extract has been also proven as efficient in preventing joint deterioration and inflammation.

Ginger has a number of active compounds that are able to sideline prostaglandins, compounds that cause inflammatory processes and pain.