solotripper wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 2:18pm:

Quote: I DID try it for awhile but was never convinced enough to keep buying/using the stuff.  It certainly didn't supplant naproxen sodium for me. Jimbo ;D One of the "drawbacks" if you want to call it that in using natural foods/herbs to remedy health problems, is that unlike pharmaceutical medicine which is the concentrated form of the active ingredient in medical herbs/foods, the natural product takes longer to work. Not what you want to hear if your in pain. However the natural ingredients that the drug companies take out are natures natural buffers that protect you from the nasty side effects most drugs have. So it's a trade-off. Fast relief, possible long term problems or slower but safer on the system. My friends in the alternative medicine community will use the drug equivalent of a natural product if the problem is so severe that it needs to be brought under control fast. Once they get it down to a more manageable level, they wean their patients off the drugs onto the natural product. Just something to think about.

ST -

I happen to agree with your thinking on this.  Tart cherry juice is slower but perhaps, in the longer term, more beneficial.  I simply didn't stick with it long enough to find out.

I also KNOW there can be some nasty side-effects from the naproxen sodium that I do use.  Interestingly enough, I've been just recently looking at other alternative homeopathic remedies for my particular ailment.  I don't doubt that I should give the cherry juice extract a longer run to determine its true efficacy.

As I recall, I may have been coming off of some masochistic bushwhacking adventure with Kingfisher - and, consequently, in considerable sciatic distress - when I ditched the cherry juice for a more immediate & potent remedy.

I do not doubt the wisdom of what you have said.

Jimbo   8-)