The healing process is going to take AWHILE, based on a lot of specific things about YOU, including the amount of time you've been suffering from RLS, your body size, age, diet (inflammatory food intake), genetics, other medications you're taking, stress level, environment and so on.
So far you have learned what the CAUSE of your RLS is, and you've been handed the TOOLS to fix the problem. It would be great if the healing could be all WRAPPED up in a week or two, but it can't. It's just NOT possible.
The following excerpts will hopefully help you to adjust to the pace at which Nature works:
Unlike drugs, nutrients do not have rapid effects. There's NO QUICK fix! The business of nutrition is to BUILD a better body. That has to wait on Nature to turn over body cells. A blood cell lasts 60 to 120 days. In 3 to 4 months your whole blood supply is completely replaced. In 6 months almost all the proteins in your bones die and are replaced ... even the DNA OF YOUR GENES. In a year all your bones and even the enamel of your teeth is replaced.
This time curve is well illustrated by the course of deficiency diseases. If I remove the Vitamin C from your diet, within 4 weeks your blood Vitamin C will drop to zero. But, you will see no symptoms of disease at 4 weeks. You have to WAIT until enough of the HEALTHY cells have been REPLACED by unhealthy cells. It is ANOTHER 12 weeks before the symptoms of scurvy start to ravage your body.
Think of it this way, If you take a neglected house plant and start feeding and watering it, the leaves may PERK UP a BIT from the improved nutrition. But you have to wait for the OLD leaves to die off and NEW leaves to grow before you get a really HEALTHY plant. It is the SAME with the human body. When you start feeding it better, you have to wait on your body to grow NEW improved cells.
To understand the difference between drugs and herbs, let's focus on how they work. Pharmaceutical drugs are highly purified, potently concentrated chemicals which act by blocking processes of the body. This often gets rid of the symptoms but may create undesired side effects. Anti-congestants will clear your nose, but cause drowsiness. Prolonged use of non-steroids temporarily ease your arthritis pain, but may adversely affect your liver.
When we drink a tea or take a tincture of an herb, we are taking in the whole plant, with thousands of compounds. Although plants contain unique ingredients which give them specific effects, it is the COMBINATION of all these compounds that accounts for a plant's effectiveness and safety. The concept that a plant is more than the sum total of all its parts is known as synergy. Synergy means compounds work TOGETHER to boost the power of plants and offset actions of unsafe constituents.
In their wholeness, plants work by effecting favorable changes in our physiology, allowing the body to return to a balanced state. In the holistic tradition, the body knows how to heal itself and will do so given proper assistance. Herbs are our allies in this process.101
In order to get results from herbal treatments it is often necessary to be on a course for several months, especially for serious and/or long-standing problems. Herbs work slowly restoring the body back to balance. There is no magic quick fix with natural medicine because it has to work at such deep levels within the body systems.
Alternative Medicine for Pets - Nerve damage by Silva Mirovics All Experts en.allexperts.com
How long does it take to heal? by Dr. M. Colgan www.diseaseeducation.com
The Whole Herb: Natural Drugs to Help the Body Heal Itself by Mary Jo Ruggieri www.columbuspolarity.com
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One of the hardest things to do in today's WARP SPEED world, is to be patient.
The ONE constant throughout the history of human-kind ... is the SPEED at which Nature works.
We have no choice but to EMBRACE the pace at which Nature works its wonders ... which is SLOW and STEADY.
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