NaturalPedia > Painkillers

Quotes about Painkillers from the world's top natural health / natural living authors

 Email this page to a friend   |  Click here for FREE email alerts

page 1 of 7 | Next ->

"Painkillers and Heart Disease Revelations in 2004 and 2005 that best-selling painkillers such as Vioxx, Celebrex, Aleve, and Bextra increase the risk of heart attacks made big headlines. The news stunned millions of patients relying on these medications. Ongoing news about possible adverse cardiovascular effects from medication makes us very concerned about the widespread use of painkillers altogether." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Other depressants that are often abused by people with ADHD are heroin, pharmaceutical painkillers such as Vicodin, and anti-anxiety drugs such as Valium and Xanax. Self-medication by ADHD adults appears to be increasing in incidence of late, because controlled pharmaceutical substances are now easier than ever to acquire, due to their availability on the Internet. In addition, adults with ADHD are more vulnerable than most people to the overuse of less acutely harmful substances, such as nicotine, caffeine, and even sugary foods." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The FDA is now warning against the long-term use of over-the-counter painkillers such as Advil? Motrin?and Aleve? due to an increased risk of dying from heart disease. According to an article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer (Apnl 18, 2005), researchers surveyed 900 patients, who were smokers and more prone to cancer and heart problems, and discovered that those who took OTC painkillers for a minimum of six months doubled their chances of dying from stoke, heart attack, or other heart-related problems." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"In addition to cookware, it is also found in foil and utensils, antiperspirants, paints, cosmetics, and baking powders, as well as over-the-counter painkillers, antiinflammatory drugs, antacids, and douche preparations. CAUGHT OFF GUARD Last year, we saw an unprecedented number of recalls happen in the toy market. As I write this, Mattel, the world's largest toy company, is trying to scrub its tarnished image clean after several high-profile recalls on toys manufactured in China that may contain poisonous levels of lead in their paint." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Then came another report in 2007 from researchers at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, stating that deaths or injuries related to drug treatments more than doubled between 1998 and 2005 in the United States, with painkillers and immune-system boosters accounting for most. Their findings, which were published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, were based on "serious adverse drug events" (those that cause death, birth defects or disability, resulted in hospitalization, or were life-threatening) as reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"She had been on this high dosage of painkillers for every day of the past fifteen years. On the final day, as people were walking around saying goodbye and giving each other hugs, I noticed she was not hobbling around on her crutches. She told me that she felt fine, and that she had in fact felt so good the previous evening that she had forgotten to take her nightly dose of medication. She woke up that morning feeling even better, and had not taken painkillers the entire day. It was now twenty-four hours since her last dose." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) "Her broken bones had healed, but the pain was so intense that she took large doses of painkillers three times a day, and one at night to allow her to sleep. She had been on this high dosage of painkillers for every day of the past fifteen years. On the final day, as people were walking around saying goodbye and giving each other hugs, I noticed she was not hobbling around on her crutches. She told me that she felt fine, and that she had in fact felt so good the previous evening that she had forgotten to take her nightly dose of medication." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Moreover, deaths or injuries related to drug treatments more than doubled between 1998 and 2005 in this country, with painkillers and immune-system boosters accounting for most. (For more on this topic, see Appendix C.) So even if you think aspirin, coffee, and red wine are benefiting you, from a purely technical standpoint they are toxins by virtue of the fact they are foreign substances that your body, and especially your liver, has to process. Obviously, there may be a time and place for these substances, and it's important to note that not all "toxins" are bad at all times." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Belladonna, an herb with many therapeutic healing properties, is another great alternative to conventional painkillers. Bug hites and stings. Boiron's Apis Mellifica pellets help relieve minor allergic reactions and skin irritations. Boiron's Bitecare Gel is a topical treatment that I use to relieve the itchiness and discomfort caused by bites and stings. Scrapes, burns, and minor skin irritations. Boiron's line of topical calendula remedies—which come in gel, lotion, cream, and ointment form—are really great." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"She had taken high amounts of the painkillers and antidepressants, she said, because she had grown tolerant of their effects. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and a judge sent her to jail for six months. On a sunny fall day in Iowa in 2005 the parents of Staff Sergeant Bruce Pollema greeted the 2168th Transportation Company as the soldiers returned from Iraq. Betty and Wilmar Pollema sat in the football bleachers at Sheldon High School, among a crowd of hundreds, who cheered and waved flags as they caught sight of loved ones they had not seen for more than a year." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Ongoing news about possible adverse cardiovascular effects from medication makes us very concerned about the widespread use of painkillers altogether. They all, in fact, have side effects, even over-the-counter pharmaceuticals such as acetaminophen (liver-related problems) and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen (high blood pressure and weakened kidneys). Prescription NSAIDs are even stronger. Overuse of NSAIDs has ruined the careers and health of several well-known professional athletes." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Suddenly, we may begin to realize how deeply we have harbored intense negative emotions toward others or ourselves, or we may notice why we have allowed certain foods, beverages, or drugs such as painkillers, steroids, and antibiotics to contaminate and congest our beautiful body. Cancer is a wakeup call, prompting us to take our life back where it is no more. The alarm bell that sounds to wake us up rings painfully loud, which is good because we are more likely to respond to physical than to emotional pain." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"China's melia fruits are used as painkillers. Sky fruits, from the Solomon Islands, help blood circulation and kidney function. A recent Bulgarian study of two hundred men suffering from impotence demonstrated that the dried fruits of Tribulus ter-restris increase sperm production and motility. Increasingly, the pharmaceutical industry is trying to understand fruits' medical properties. Black mulberries contain deoxynojirimycin, a chemical that combats HIV Mars chocolates have launched a new line of medical products using cocoa to treat diabetes, strokes and vascular disease." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Also things such as stress and drugs (steroids, painkillers and antibiotics) can cause leaky gut. Leaky gut is characterized by the cell junctions in the GI tract separating. This allows partially digested food proteins to leak into the bloodstream. These particles of food start a medley of immune reactions. Immune cells start recognizing these particles as "non-self and launch an attack. This process results in symptoms of inflammation, autoimmune disease, allergic and/or food reactions. 9." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Typically these are pills like iron, calcium, painkillers, antidepressants, blood pressure drugs and cough syrup. Talk to your doctor about reducing or eliminating unnecessary medications. Did you know... Constipation with straining not only aggravates hemorrhoids; it is dangerous for those with aneurysms and heart disease? We may even know of loved ones who actually had a stroke or heart attack whilst straining to pass stool. Catherine the Great died of a stroke in 1796 that was rumoured to be whilst on the toilet." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Some analgesics, known colloquially as "painkillers," work by binding to nicotinic receptors, relieving us from the experience of pain. riety of pharmaceutical companies, trying to understand, develop, and assess various other compounds that would safely stimulate nicotinic receptors without encouraging addiction. While I was at Johns Hopkins in the 1980s, one of the first drug studies I ever conducted in Alzheimer's disease was with Nicorette chewing gum, an early smoking-cessation product that includes nicotine as its active ingredient." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"When needles are inserted in an acupuncture point, endorphins (the body's natural hormonal painkillers) are aroused so acupuncture is often used, especially in the West, to treat painful conditions such as arthritis, back pain and rheumatism. It has also successfully helped people suffering from asthma, allergies, angina, anxiety, bronchitis, colitis, digestive and gall-bladder problems, insomnia, stress, tiredness and ulcers. Scepticism and fear of needles often deter people from the healing potential of acupuncture but any apprehension is soon dispelled during a first treatment." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"The following conversation is provided in part: Couric: But so are some painkillers, to be perfectly honest. Does that mean that painkillers shouldn't be prescribed? Dr. Glenmullen: But—but patients should be told. They should be told when they start these drugs. Psychiatric drugs can mask the real problems. Psychiatric drugs are being overprescribed. He's (Cruise) right when he actually says that there are no proven biochemical imbalances. Everyone's shocked by that, but it's true, and we don't want to lose sight of the very real issues that he's raised. Couric: Well, let me talk to Dr." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"The first was an outgrowth of the discovery in the early 1970s of endorphins, substances in the brain that are chemically similar to opioids and that function as the brain's own natural "painkillers." In 1978 a report was published which suggested that placebo treatments for pain were mediated, at least in part, by these biochemical substances. When an opioid blocker called naloxone was used to block the body's opioid receptors (without telling patients this was being done), placebo responders stopped reporting relief of pain." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"One randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial in 2004 found statistically significant improvement in pain for all women treated with 3 mg or 6 mg of molecular iodine, and these were women who were not helped by nonprescription painkillers. And a 1993 study in the Canadian Journal of Surgery found that 70 percent of subjects treated with iodine had clinical improvement in their fibrocystic breast disease. The researchers caution that molecular iodine was the most beneficial form. Seaweed is the best source of organically bound iodine." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "The women taking the krill oil also chose to consume significantly less painkillers during the treatment period. JMS Medical Research, the independent research organization responsible for the data analysis, reported that krill oil "significantly improves the overall emotional and physical symptoms of patients suffering from premenstrual syndrome." This study was particularly interesting because it not only investigated the effect of krill oil on PMS, but it also compared the effect of krill oil to regular omega-3 fish oil. Krill oil won." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Phenylalanine slows the body's breakdown of endorphins, the body's internal painkillers. The more endorphins you have hanging around, the less pain you have. Note: If you have a condition known as phenylketonurea (PKU) do not use this nutrient. PKU is a rare genetic disorder characterized by the inability to break down phenylalanine. Aspartame is made from phenylalanine, which is the reason Equal comes with a warning label for In those patients who are obese, have peptic ulcers, or are taking diuretics, the effectiveness of glucosamine sulfate is reduced." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"This phenomenon is not limited to the United States; England got its first dose of this reality a few years ago when scientists looked at 12 pharmaceuticals thought to pose an environmental threat, including painkillers, antibiotics, and antidepressants, and found traces of these pharmaceuticals in both sewage waters and drinking water. They also found traces in the rivers downstream from sewage treatment plants." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The story of Vioxx and Celebrex painkillers, unfolding as we write, is instructing us otherwise. That tens of millions of women were given estrogen replacements to alleviate symptoms of menopause and make them "feminine forever" is a good example from a few years earlier. A few years before that, 5-fluorouracil, a highly toxic drug, was widely used for the treatment of colon cancer—even though it was known at the time to be ineffective. What we are saying is that the medicalization of our lives—test this, monitor that, cut this, drug that—has a minimal impact on mortality." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"In one study there was a significant decrease in the consumption of painkillers with a group treated with 300 mg of 5-HTP a day, as well as a significant decrease in the number of days with headaches in the two weeks following the study. The patients in this study suffered with chronic tension-type headaches, but there's reason to think 5-HTP might be a useful adjunct for those with migraines as well. The excellent evidence-based monograph on 5-HTP—written as a collaboration between Natural Standard (www.naturalstandard." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The mind is capable of performing a function similar to chemical painkillers and anesthetics. In cases of chronic acute pain, the mind will act to withdraw energy from the nerves in the afflicted area so the pain will go down. This reaction of the mind is helpful in the short term. Acute pain makes it difficult to function and can create problems in other parts of your body. For example, a person who has severe arthritic pain in her hips might naturally accommodate her pain by leaning forward, keeping her lumbar spine too rigid and putting too much stress on her knees." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "In fact, as with the boy with the severed finger, healing can come with energy work in cases where no healing is possible through traditional means like chemical painkillers. Energy-healing work can bring you comfort quickly and has a tremendous impact on healing over time. It can even help you keep your dreams alive. I had a patient who was a teacher throughout her career, but her real love was volleyball. She played in a competitive league that culminated in a national championship every year. Her ultimate goal was to win a championship game." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "Despite the use of painkillers, this young boy was in agony—experiencing pain at a level of ten on a one-to-ten scale. Hed been like that for hours, and was trying to be tough, but his face and tears betrayed how excruciating this was for him. I went to work immediately, super-loading his linger and hand with BioEM energy. Within a matter of minutes, I dropped the pain from a ten to a two. Everyone was stunned how quickly we made progress, and the boy was utterly transformed—he finally felt human again. I knew we'd only achieved the first step by getting the bulk of the pain out of the way." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"They found traces of painkillers, antibiotics, antihistamines, and blood pressure medications, all of them lingering remnants of pills swallowed by the residents of cities upstream. The scientists had found striking evidence of just how extensive Iowans' use of prescription drugs had become. Thirty percent of the water samples were laced with Tagamet, the drug that soothes heartburn and stomach complaints. Twenty percent held traces of codeine, a powerful narcotic. Another 20 percent contained tiny bits of Cardizem, a popular medicine used to control hypertension." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The forty-eight-year-old championship coach said he had become addicted to the painkillers after his doctor prescribed them for pain in his hip. Other crimes have been far worse. Some of these addiction-fueled crimes were committed by teenagers only a few years older than the middle school students in Des Moines who traded pills on school grounds." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

page 1 of 7 | Next ->

FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.

TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalPedia.com

This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008, 2009 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.

ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of NaturalPedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.