Do you want to be known as the best doctor to see for sciatica, low back, and disc pain? Then read on. The logical first choice when it comes to pain like that is to correct the causes and strengthen the weaknesses. Chiropractic and homeopathy do just that. Together, chiropractic and homeopathy activate our innate healing abilities and vital forces of our body to heal.
When it comes to both acute and chronic recurring sciatica, low back, and disc-related pain, homeopathy can be your secret weapon to take your results over the top. Even failed surgical attempts can be helped with homeopathy.
Although surgery can be helpful sometimes, most cases of sciatica are best helped by homeopathy and chiropractic. The more conservative approach of homeopathy and chiropractic best corrects the underlying causative factors, leaving the patient stronger and healthier following treatment. While allopathic drugs are suppressive in nature, homeopathy and chiropractic are more expressive, awakening the body’s ability to express healing. Corrective, expressive, and regenerative care are the homeopathic and chiropractic way — no need to risk surgical damage, scar tissue buildup, and addiction to suppressive drugs.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that heat, acupuncture, exercise, massage, yoga, and spinal manipulation can help with low back pain. A compression fracture usually heals on its own in eight to 12 weeks, as do most cases of back pain. However, experts caution that spinal surgery is called for in extreme cases, such as when a herniated disc is pressing against nearby nerves, causing a person to lose bladder and bowel control (http://www.mayfieldclinic. com/pe-caudaequina.htm) or loss of reflexes. In such cases, surgery is the only way to relieve the pressure on nerves and restore bodily functions.1
Back surgeries do not have a very good success rate. In fact, a clinical term has been acknowledged since the advent of spinal surgery called FBSS, or failed back surgery syndrome. It’s the only diagnosis named for a treatment that hasn’t worked. There are as many patients with FBSS as those with rheumatoid arthritis. Sadly, FBSS patients experience higher levels of pain and a poorer quality of life and physical function than those with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis.2
The incidence of FBSS has been estimated to be between 10% and 40%, depending on the type of surgery performed — responsible for more disability than any other condition. Other studies show that 5% to 36% of people who undergo a discectomy for a lumbar herniated disc had leg and back pain return just two years after surgery. With each spine surgery to correct the original failed back surgery, the chance of success drops:
• 50% success rate after the first repeat surgery
• 30% after the second
• 15% after the third
• 5% after the fourth3
A study by Global Advances in Health and Medicine concluded that the combination of “conventional medical therapy” and “complementary alternative medicine” modalities for treating low back pain appears to be the most promising approach to the management of chronic cases of this complex condition.4
A 2018 study published in JAMA Network Open is among the latest to weigh in on the pros and cons of chiropractic care for treating low back pain. Researchers enrolled 750 active-duty military personnel who complained of back pain. Half were randomly assigned to receive usual care (including medications, self-care, and physical therapy), while the other half received usual care plus up to 12 chiropractic treatments. After six weeks of treatment, those assigned to receive chiropractic care:
• Reported less pain intensity
• Experienced less disability and more improvement in function
• Reported higher satisfaction with their treatment
• Needed less pain medicine5
• An article in PubMed reviewed a study of homeopathic treatment for patients with chronic low back pain and other diagnoses. One hundred twenty-nine adults and 48 physicians participated in the study, which showed that classic homeopathic treatment represents an effective treatment. The patients received an average of 6.5 homeopathic prescriptions that resulted in:
• Marked and sustained improvement with the severity of the diagnoses and the complaints
• Improvement in quality of life
• The use of conventional treatment and health ser-
vices decreased markedly
• The number of patients using low back pain-related drugs was half the number of the baseline6
Homeopathic remedies specific to neuralgia (nerve pain and altered sensations like numbness and formication) and neuritis (inflammation and swelling in and around the nerve) correct causative factors by awakening the body’s ability to establish homeostasis or balance biochemically and bioenergetically to eliminate the source of the sciatica.
Homeopathic Ingredients for Nerve Pain
The following homeopathic active ingredients are the most effective remedies I have found in my 40 plus years of successfully integrating homeopathy and chiropractic.
• Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut) (Boericke): Low back pain and weakness. Radiating pain dow legs.
• Ammonium muriaticum (Ammonium Chloride)
(Clark): Sciatic pain.
• Arsenicum album (Arsenious Acid) (Boericke): (Sciatica. Clark): Sciatica. Acute drawing pains in the hips, extending to the groins, the thighs, and anklebones.
• Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade) (Boericke): Shooting pains along limbs. Spasms.
• Capsicum annuum (Cayenne Pepper) (Boericke): Sciatica. Clark: Sciatica. Shooting-tearing from hip to knee and foot, with numbness and tingling.
• Causticum (Potassium Hydrate) (Boericke): Tearing, drawing pains in the muscular and fibrous tissues. Progressive loss of muscular strength. Left-sided sciatica, with numbness.
• Colocynthis (Bitter cucumber) (Boericke): Sciatic pain, left side, drawing, tearing.
• Colchicum autumnale (Meadow Saffron) (Boericke):
Pain in front of thigh. Clark: Special indications for its use in sciatica and lumbago. Electric shock sensations.
• Gnaphalium polycephalum (Boericke): For sciatica, with associated numbness. Intense pain along the sciatic nerve; numbness alternates with pain. Chronic pain in lumbar region. Lumbago.
• Ignatia amara (St. Ignatius Bean) (Clarke): Sciatica with weakness of back and lower limbs.
• Magnesia phosphorica (Phosphate of Magnesia) (Boericke): Sciatica. Twitchings and spasms. Cramping of muscles with radiating pains.
• Rhus toxicodendron (Poison Ivy) (Boericke): Tearing down the thighs. Sciatica. Numbness or trembling.
These homeopathic remedies can be applied as single remedies or in combination together. The remedies can be applied orally to correct from the inside out and applied topically for an added localized effect to correct from the outside. Additionally, they can be applied to neuritis and neuralgia in other areas of the body, such as the arms, hands, and jaw areas.
To fully complement the sciatic pain remedies in the article, I recommend the remedies listed in my acute pain article that address low back and disc causes related to sciatica. Applying these homeopathic remedies will also complement the healing, restorative processes, even with postsurgery failure.
Homeopathy is a great help to correct the genetic predispositions toward sciatica, low back, and disc problems. When these conditions show up in family history, homeopathic and chiropractic care can correct and prevent genetic predispositions in family members — young, old, and those in between.
Frank King, ND, DC, is a nationally recognized researcher, homeopath, speaker, naturalist, and the author of The Healing Revolution. He is also the founder and president of King Bio, an FDA-registered natural pharmaceutical manufacturer.
With a background in natural health care spanning 40 years, Dr. King shares a wealth of knowledge and insights regarding how practitioners can become even more effective with unique healing techniques, and how contemporary Homeopathic remedies can enhance all other healing modalities. He can be reached at 866-298-2740, www.safe-care.com or [email protected].
References
1. https://consumer, healthday. com/ encyclopedia/back-care-6/backache-news-53 /back-surgery-645795. html
2. https: //www. ncbi. nlm. nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5913031/
3. https: //now. aapmr. org/post-laminectomy-pain/
4. https: //www. ncbi. nlm. nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC 4268606/
5. https://www. health, harvard, edn/blog/ should-you-see-a-chiropractor-forlow-back-pain-2019073017412
6. https://www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/19590483
