Back Pain

Essential Oils Where to Buy ​	Use juniper, rosemary, lavender, marjoram, thyme and/or eucalyptus on location or in bath water.​ Use basil, birch, chamomile, cypress, eucalyptus, ginger, juniper, lavender, oregano, peppermint, geranium, rosemary and/or spruce on location and top & bottom of feet).
Natural/Herbal How to Use Herbs Where to Buy ​​ Healing Herbs Info	Devil's Claw, Black Cohosh, eucalyptus, passionflower For backache relating to kidney weakness, drink bochu/cinnamon tea (add 1 teaspoon of buchu leaves and a generous pinch of dried cinnamon to a cup of boiling water and infuse for 10 minutes. Drink up to 3 times a day for up to a week). Fenugreek for lower back pain. Do exercises to strengthen your stomach muscles​.​  Flaxseed Oil: 1 tablespoon (14grams) daily (in the morning).  Yoga
​​​Supplements ​Where to Buy ​​	Calcium/Magnesium: 600 mg calcium and 250 mg magnesium daily. Bromelain: 500 mg 3 times daily on an empty stomach (should provide 6,000 GDU or 9,000 MCU daily). Glucosomine: 500 mg glucosamine sulfate 3 times daily (with food) White Willow Bark: 1-2 pills 3 times daily (should contain 15% salicin). Vitamin C: 1,000 mg 3 times daily (reduce if it causes diarrhea). Vitamin D: 400 IU daily (over 1,000 IU daily may be toxic). Manganese: 60 mg daily for 2 weeks (after 2 weeks, reduce dose to 20 mg daily).
Mind/Body Connection	Back pain can represent feeling a lack of support. Lumbar back pain can represent a lack of financial support. Thoracic back pain can represent a lack of emotional support/love. ​Middle back pain can represent carrying the weight of the past or feeling unsupported and overwhelmed by responsibility. Lower back pain represents the connection between your inner values/morals and your external behavior/choices.  Look at where your lifestyle contradicts your internal thoughts about what is right.
Yoga Therapy	Upper Back Pain:  Shoulder Shrugs Chest Opener Half-Forward Bend Plank/Chaturanga