Cherry Juice For Arthritis Pain

Can you imagine yourself drinking your way to freedom from arthritis? It now seems that you can, but with fruit and vegetable juices.

Juices are no substitute for regular physical exercise, of course. There never are any shortcuts in life, and the same is true with getting rid of arthritis. You have to exercise. But while you are sweating it out, you can also drink it up with juices that help you fight arthritis or the pain that it brings.

The Prevention magazine reports that patients who drank two glasses of black cherry juice (equivalent to four ounces of cherry juice mixed with four ounces of water) twice a day experienced partial relief of pain symptoms.


This came out of an interview with Eve Campanelli, Ph.D., who described the relief felt by 85% of her patients. Once pain subsides, you can stop taking the juice. For best results, you should use fresh cherries that have been kept cool and moist and have a deep red or black colour.

Author Cherie Calborn, a certified nutritionist, argues that those who have rheumatoid arthritis should add juices with anti-inflammatory substances to their daily diet. Calborn recommends pineapple juice, because it has good quantities of the enzyme, bromelain.

Among its various benefits, bromelain is a catalyst that helps in the synthesis of protein. Incomplete protein synthesis contributes to arthritis. Bromelain helps break down plaque and fatty deposits that clog blood vessels that worsen the arthritic condition.

You can also make juices out of parsley, broccoli, and carrots, which contain beta-carotene, and apples and ginger, all of which contain copper that also helps in protein synthesis.

Other juices with the potential to help you fight arthritis are juices from bilberry, celery, green barley, aloe vera, and boswellia extract. Cotisone from birch may also help reduce the torture of joint inflammations. It has been observed, however, that cortisone interferes with calcium absorption, so it should be used sparingly.

There is some debate about spinach. Some nutritionists would include spinach and spinach juice because it also has beta-carotenes and copper. However, there are those who argue that spinach itself is not good for arthritis because of its oxalic acid content, which works against fuller absorption of calcium, a necessary ingredient in bones and joints. Perhaps, just like birch cortisone the benefits will work best if you use spinach infrequently.

You can drink these arthritis-fighting juices to help you replace body fluids after your daily exercise regimen or with your meals and snacks. They not only quench your thirst, they also help stop the pain of arthritis.

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