30/01/2024
🔴SAFETY🔴
PLEASE READ.
It's so important when taking an alternative or holistic approach to our health and wellbeing to remember NATURAL DOESN'T MEAN SAFE.
With a client, I was asked for remedies to help with joint pain, she has rheumatoid arthritis and is on multiple medications, one of which is a blood thinner. She had purchased a "pain blend" massage oil and was using it for 2 weeks daily. I was already concerned.
She showed me some dark purple bruising on her worst knee and other patches of bruising localised around her joints, she had not bashed it or injured it that she new of, yet it looked as though she'd tumbled down some stairs.
On closer inspection of the massage oil, I immediately saw the issue. The oil contained multiple vasodilator essential oils. Prolonged use along with some of the medication, especially the blood thinner, had caused capillaries to burst, causing the bruising, the bruising had caused further inflammation and actually worsened her original pain symptoms.
Herbal teas, tinctures, essential oil rubs and such should be individually tailored and not one size fits all.
ALWAYS seek professional advice when using herbal remedies! And check with your regular prescriber incase of medication interactions.
