1. Medicinal bracelets offer an attractive, simple, easy-to-use kind of natural medicine. They can also teach us much about deeper patterns of physiology and nutrition.
2. The bracelets can be composed of various minerals. In practice, to avoid overdosing of trace elements, they tend to contain mainly copper and zinc. The principles governing bracelets also apply to other kinds of jewelry, but here also one needs to steer clear of overdosing. In South Asia silver anklets actually may be implicated
Tags: arthritis, copper, copper bracelets, iontophoresis, iron-deficiency anemia, medicinal bracelets, transdermal, tremor, zinc
A 52-year old male in generally good health began to feel soreness and painful twinges in his fingers. The inflammation was not in the knuckle joints but rather in the tissue surrounding them, which became increasingly red and sensitive to touch. Having previously used Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and methotrexate in succession to treat a case of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, and having an old prescription for methotrexate, he obtained methotrexate from an online pharmacy and began to take it.
Tags: arthritis, ascorbate, ascorbic acid, finger pain, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, methotrexate, myalgia, rheumatology, Vitamin C
With updates, from Kenneth J. Dillon, Intriguing Anomalies: An Introduction to Scientific Detective Work. Notes, bibliography, and images can be found in the original. For a brief overview, see Ten Key Points about Medicinal Bracelets. For his novel of discovery science, see Rosemarie (Washington, D.C.: Scientia Press, 2021).