Chronic head, facial or neck pain that won’t go away… Could it be TMJ?Written by Naweko San-Joyz
I stumbled across TMJ when I needed treat a literal pain in neck that would not go away. It seemed that pain in my neck came from my jaws. “TMJ” refers to disorders of jaw muscles and of temporomandibular joint, hinge at side of head that joins lower jaw, mandible, to temporal bone of skull. TMJ expert John Taddey, D.D.S. states that one most common symptoms of TMJ is a dull, aching pain around ears which can radiate to neck, shoulders, and back of head. These symptoms may be coupled with tenderness of jaw muscles and a headache. While causes of TMJ are many, condition is usually result of a collective malfunctioning of chewing muscles, teeth, and temporomandibular joint. The face and jaw muscles may go into spasm or cramp and lead to tissue damage, pain and tenderness. The level of damage and pain varies. Diaganosing TMJ can be elusive. Recognizing TMJ requires a thorough understanding of two-inch area just in front of ears that houses temporomandibular joint, sinuses, glands, middle and inner ears, throat tissues, brain tissue, muscles, ligaments, nerves blood vessels, lymphatic tissues, bones and teeth. TMJ can mask itself with a “referred pain”. This occurs when pain felt in one area of body originated from another source. For example, you may visit your doctor with an earache and find your ear is healthy, while a decayed tooth or TMJ is root cause of earache.
| | Make Your Own Natural Herbal Healing SalveWritten by Loring A. Windblad
Copyright 2004 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos. Do you remember wonderful world of Watkins Man coming by your home, showing you all these wonderful salves and remedies and other marvelous things? Have you ever wished you could find Watkins Man and buy some of those salves? A good Herbal Healing Salve would be a marvelous thing to have around for all little cuts and scrapes that one gets into around house. Soooooo – what if you could make your own? What if it was “easy”? What if it might be even better than Watkins variety? I'm not really sure what I’d do without my multi-purpose homemade healing salve. I use it on gardening-inflicted sunburns, cuts and abrasions, on martial arts blisters, grandson’s chapped cheeks and hands, insect bites when we’re wilderness camping or gold panning, and dog’s scrapes and scratches. Herbal healing salves are gentle, soothing balms made from natural herbal ingredients. Here’s something everyone can do, quickly and easily, at home, with no special skills. Generally speaking they’re safe to use on kids, pets and people. They are naturally soothing and healing. In this sample recipe, herbally infused oil is chock-full of natural healing powers. Vitamin E oil contributes antioxidants and wound-healing abilities. Tea tree oil (Melaleuca oil) provides anti-microbial, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. And lavender essential oil works it’s magic on burns and adds soothing aromatherapy.
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