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Muscular Pains

Sources: Papers On Health

These pains occur usually when a patient has been for

some time in one position, sitting or lying, and rises suddenly in a

particular way. They sometimes take such hold of the breast or back

muscles as to make it appear as if some serious disease were present;

even in the limbs they may cause great distress on any sudden motion.

They may arise from a gradual overdoing of the muscles concerned.

They are similar to what
s commonly called a sprain, but as they are

gradually produced their cause is often overlooked, and needless

distress of mind caused by taking the pain for that of cancer or some

such trouble. We write to point out that pains do not always mean

serious disease, and before any one becomes despairing about their

health, they should make sure they understand their case thoroughly.



These pains, too, refuse to yield to ordinary hot and cold methods of

treatment. The remedy is found internally in half a teaspoonful of

tincture of Guaiacum in a teacupful of hot water three times a day.

After two or three days, a teaspoonful of the tincture may be taken in

the cup of water. Continue until two ounces of tincture have been used.

Or the tabloids of Guaiacum and sulphur, now found in our drug shops,

may be taken, one tabloid representing the half-teaspoonful of

tincture.



Externally, rub gently yet firmly the affected muscles with warm oil

for ten minutes or so once a day for a week or ten days. Of course,

rest must be taken, and the overstress which caused the trouble avoided

in future.



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