I found this story on the telegraph.co.uk website, by one of their correspondents, Robin Millward. Who found a long lost bottle of muscle rub in his medicine cabinet when he was trying to cope with chronic back pain.
This muscle rub, which had travelled back from a visit to America some time before, turns out to be based on a horse liniment sold in America since 1903 as Absorbine Jr.
The original horse formula was devised by Wilbur F Young and his wife Mary Ida, a herbalist who assembled the concoction in her bathtub in Connecticut, in the 1890s.
Originally Absorbine was – and still is – rubbed into tired horses to ease sore muscles and prevent lameness. Then some of the farmers noticed that it made them feel better too.
Robin Millward tried it in desperation and discovered that it eased his pain tremendously. To the point in fact where he could resume his exercises and achieve his recovery without surgery.
This actually reminds me of my grandfather, who was a miner, and swore by what he called “horse oils” for his occupational back pain.
You can try it yourself if you wish, it is marketed on Amazon and other places on the net. Could be worth a go.
To read the full story, and it is fascinating, go here.
Here's an interesting little snippet. researchers at Harvard Medical School, New England Baptist Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital -- all in Boston, say they have discovered a link between knee osteoarthritis and foot, elbow, and lower back pain.
Quite fascinating, I have had the knee osteoarthritis, back pain, and elbow pain. If you count gout I have also had the foot pain!
Anyway, you can check the article out at this link.
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