30 cc's of Dalmore would work better

Funny you should ask, i had 2 glasses of cherryrx.com last night. As to if it works on pain it's hard to say. For me not noticeable like 4 ibuprofin would be. Surprisingly i did get slightly sleepy during 3rd period of hawks canucks. what a game. Didn't even think about it but maybe that's why. i like the lack of sweetness.

dd,

Allegedly, the MN Twins pitching staff uses the stuff to reduce inflammation in their joints.  At least, that was what an avid baseball fan told me when we were discussing ways to reduce inflammation (in my case, related to sciatica).

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.

Can't say cherry juice - or anything else, for that matter - did much good for the MN Twins last year, either.  My theory is they were experimenting with sleeping pills... especially in the late innings.

Jimbo   

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Jimbo

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.

When you say "real science", is that Western science/medicine your referring too?
Modern medicine is what 200 yrs old or so give or take?
Chinese/Hindu/ Native Peoples folk medicine has been around since the dawn of man.
Right now there are teams of experts from every medical field and drug company in the rain forests, consulting Native peoples on the healing properties of their traditional medications.

Just becasue modern science can't explain it, run tests on it doesn't mean it doesn't work.
They've been doing major surgery in China, including brain surgery using just acupuncture to anesthetize the patient. They ( the Chinese) are talking meridians of energy/chi, something which modern science can't measure and many believe is just snake oil medicine.

The native people of every culture have a rich heritage of folk medicine that they've used for centuries.
Some is based on the power of believe/ placebo effect, but much is based on herbal formulas past down for generations.

Even that pot you like so well has reputed medical effects although many western doctors don't believe it or the "science" hasn't shown it to western sciences satisfaction.

Western medical doctors know a lot of things but they don't know everything and the more enlightened ones are realizing that more and more everyday.

Ever watch the Dr. Oz show?
He has segments every show about the healing properties of foods and herbs that are now just getting modern medicines attention.

It's the ultimate in egotism to think that a system of medicine that is really just in it's infancy compared to other forms of healing is superior in every case or the other systems are inferior just because that so called "science" hasn't figured a way to study them properly.