Anti inflammatory treatment may well provide you with short term swelling relief, but it does little for your long term health.
Inflammation is a direct and natural action of your body to protect the affected part from further injury, while healing takes place.
Your body has innate wisdom.
This is in perfect harmony for the most efficient healing of the part, for the best outcome both now and in the future.
By suppressing this natural reaction, you are creating an unsuitable environment for your body to heal as well as it can.
Slower or incomplete healing can be the short term outcome, while arthritis can be the result in years to come.
Instead of trying to suppress the effect, isn't it more sensible to address the cause? Then both will be quickly resolved.
Homeopathy works by gently stimulating your immune system to work as it was created to work - efficiently.
Currently, it's unable to because it has been suppressed by various factors.
Factors which may include a poor diet, medical drugs and vaccines, insufficient water in your diet, insufficient exposure to the sun, a lack of personal relaxing time.
The list is endless.
All injuries need to be started off with the oral use of Arnica.
Good though this is, it may not complete all injuries.
This indicates that other homeopathic medicines are needed.
The homeopathic medicine Rhus tox is found in all good home prescribing kits.
It is an excellent medicine when your strongest symptoms are a stiffness in the joints.
This can be from arthritis, especially if the cause is an old injury.
But it can equally come about from an inflamed joint from a recent injury.
Apart from the stiffness, another strong keynote of this medicine is that symptoms improve with hot applications, while they are worse in the colder, winter months.
The stiffness has a particular expression; it is worse for the first few steps of the initial movement.
Then it improves with continued movement.
However, the continued movement causes pain and further problems.
So you sit down to get relief, but then stiffen up, so have to start the cycle all over again.
This is often referred to as the 'rusty gate syndrome'.
So the symptoms you are looking for to successfully use this medicine is an injury with inflammation, a stiffness which improves with applied heat and a restlessness.
The cat who had his paw trodden on by the horse needed a couple of doses of Rhus tox.
The symptoms that lead me to this was; works well after Arnica and he became restless.