Inflammation Remedies
Every one of us will experience inflammation at different times in our lives. Every disease, condition, and injury produces some form of inflammation. Patients often tell me that they feel inflamed and don't know the cause. I want to share some tips and steps to take to reduce inflammation without having to resort to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which can cause many problems for the body over time. There are two types of inflammation; acute and chronic. Acute inflammation occurs when blood vessels dilate, and immune cells release cytokines in response to a pathogen, injury, wound, etc. Certain immune cells like neutrophils will go to the area in the body where there is an injury or pathogen. These immune cells and cytokines bring inflammatory factors to heal the injury, pathogen or infection. This can be seen as redness and/or swelling and felt as pain. Acute inflammation ceases when the injury or problem has been resolved. In the case of chronic inflammation, simi