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The term arthritis is derived from two Greek words’ athron, “which means joints and inflammation.

Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints that is characterized by pain, swelling, deformity and / or joint stiffness.

The areas most affected by arthritis are the joints such as knees, fingers, toes, wrists, elbows and shoulders but also the neck, back and hip.

There are different types of arthritis:

- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Lupus
- Drop
- Kawasaki Syndrome
- Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Infectious arthritis

However, all these types, the most common are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. The first is a degenerative disease that usually appears in older adults while rheumatoid arthritis is a disease that affects not only the joints of the fingers, wrists, knees, and feet, but also muscles and other body tissues .

Arthritis most often affects women than men and almost 80% of the population is over 50 years.

Folk Remedies

1. Compared with garlic and arthritis, there are three traditional remedies. You can eat three cloves of garlic a day. You can also split a garlic clove in half and rub the areas where he feels more pain. Another remedy is to crush 1 clove of garlic and then pour in the juice of a lemon and make this preparation in fast the next day. Continue to achieve improvement.

2. Take two tablespoons of honey at each meal.

3. Eat cherries, if possible, several times a day. It may be in the form of cakes or jams to which you should not add sugar.

4. Pour a handful of parsley in a quart of boiling water, water is removed from the heat and let stand for 20 minutes. Then strain and takes half cup of this water before each meal.

5. is very old belief that cats relieve arthritis pain. It said that the cat must be placed above the knee or sore on the site which has a beneficial effect.

6. Another natural remedy is to fill a tub of water, then place a piece of coral in it and plunge the person who suffers from arthritis in that water.

Source: http://www.remediospopulares.com/artritis.html
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