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Is Curamin An Effective Medicine For Pain?

I am curious about a pill called curamin for pain. I have constant back pain and stiffness. I ve been to see a doctor and all he wants to do is give me expensive meds that just make me sleep all day and feel sluggish. I have a full time job. I can t afford to be sluggish working around dangerous tools and driving a lot. Can you tell me what I can take that is natural. This pill is suppose to be good. What you say?
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A fake drug reduces any sort of pain by up to 50% in any test of pain. So, if they took out 90% of the ingredients, and reduced the cost to you by 90%, they would still have something that would work quite well. The fact that they do not lower the cost is either stupid, greedy, or that they really believe their drug is working. BUT since there has never been a test on the main model for pain (get a bunch of people getting dentistry; see if it lowers acute dental pain), we can rule out that the people think the drug actually works.

In the not as good tests done on it, generally it is not better than fake drug. For actually healing joints/tendons on x rays, it does nothing, but then I do not know of anything that has worked on this.

It's components, turmeric, gum from frankinsense, and an enzyme are being studied but are not proven to do anything. THe enzyme, especially, wouldn't even get in without being digested. This is true of the gum of frankinsense also, but it contains some small plant compounds that MIGHT be absorped after digestion and MIGHT do something. It is a stretch of the data to say anything and they haven't published any real data to support this doing anything. They certainly haven't established the right dose.

So, taking 1/10 of it 3x a day will make it quite affordable; there is not data to say what dose is the minimal with full activity. Maybe 1 thousanth. Maybe just opening the bottle and inhaling dust. Who knows?
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Is Curamin An Effective Medicine For Pain?

A fake drug reduces any sort of pain by up to 50% in any test of pain. So, if they took out 90% of the ingredients, and reduced the cost to you by 90%, they would still have something that would work quite well. The fact that they do not lower the cost is either stupid, greedy, or that they really believe their drug is working. BUT since there has never been a test on the main model for pain (get a bunch of people getting dentistry; see if it lowers acute dental pain), we can rule out that the people think the drug actually works. In the not as good tests done on it, generally it is not better than fake drug. For actually healing joints/tendons on x rays, it does nothing, but then I do not know of anything that has worked on this. It s components, turmeric, gum from frankinsense, and an enzyme are being studied but are not proven to do anything. THe enzyme, especially, wouldn t even get in without being digested. This is true of the gum of frankinsense also, but it contains some small plant compounds that MIGHT be absorped after digestion and MIGHT do something. It is a stretch of the data to say anything and they haven t published any real data to support this doing anything. They certainly haven t established the right dose. So, taking 1/10 of it 3x a day will make it quite affordable; there is not data to say what dose is the minimal with full activity. Maybe 1 thousanth. Maybe just opening the bottle and inhaling dust. Who knows?