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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.