Many of my customers buy creams from me for pain: Tendonitis, Joint Pain, Knee Injuries, Nerve Pain.  We have become used to taking medicines internally for these conditions, but topical treatments are often more effective for long term help.  Inflammation is a root cause of many disorders, and topical applications can help you keep your inflammation under control without aggravating your stomach, liver and kidneys. This, in turn, promotes improved overall well being.

When you hurt yourself,  you'll take an anti-inflammatory such as ibuprofen, tylenol, or aspirin.  If you go to your physician you may get a steroid preparation.  These all have to go through your stomach and entire system to start working.  While it can be very  important to treat inflammation in this way at the beginning, as time goes on and the pain continues, it is well worth your time to look into other ways of dealing with the situation.  Of course, as well, you have to stop re-injuring yourself.  I often think of a dancer who bought some Tendonitis cream from me, but was absolutely not going to change her routine at all.  Or the cyclist who had already injured his knees to the point where he could not perform as he had been accustomed to do.   On the other end of the contimuum, I have many customers who will not take so much as an aspirin no matter how much things hurt.  It is always important to operate within your physical limits and treat your body with respect.  Pain is a message, and it doesn't do to ignore it, in either direction.

Many of us have things like repetitive stress problems in our hands and wrists, tendonitis in the elbow, TMJ, and the like.  My Tendonitis cream has proven to be remarkably effective in a variety of instances, including TMJ, trigger fingers, numb and hurt hands from physical labor such as gardening and warehouse work, as well as tennis elbow.  The Pain and Injury cream helps with nerve pain, rotator cuff injuries, and arthritic conditions.  Each cream has some similar pain relieving constituents, but works differently to address different types of pain.  While the Tendonitis cream has herbal iingredients that help the body get rid of the excess acid and calcium in the muscles, and elixirs that help the energy move properly and not become congested, the Pain and Injury cream helps stop the body's shut-down response to pain (especially long standing issues and bony injuries where there has been bleeding and joint injury, as well as nerve damage), and gently promotes free movement.    The Pain and Injury cream has been helpful to people with serious sports injuries, such as bicycle and surfing accidents, as well as chronic knee problems.

Since these remedies are topical, they do not place an additional load on the body in order to process them.  This can be quite important in instances of regular pain, such as tennis elbow, arthritis or rotator cuff problems, where you really don't want to be medicating yourself constantly.  I have found that the Tendonitis cream can actually resolve episodes and exacerbations, especially if you can stop the re-injury to the area by resting for a time, or wearing more proper footwear, or using a better chair, or whatever it might be.

You can read comments by my customers here, in Testimonials.  Please contact me if you have any questions: I am happy to answer them.


Kelley Rico is an herbalist and a certified Flower Essence and Jin Shin Jyutsu® practitioner, who offers customized care products and distance work.