Natural Remedies for Joint Pain — The Complete Herbal Guide

Dab some birch, ginger, chamomile or nutmeg essential oil along with a carrier oil onto your sore joints. Try herbal remedies like willow bark extract, seed oils of evening primrose, borage, black currant seed, devil’s claw, cat’s claw, nettles, to counter joint inflammation. Apply a cold-warm compress and massage the affected part with medicated oils to relieve the achy joints.

Even if you’re the kind of person who really takes care of their health (and god knows, many of us don’t!), you probably don’t pay much attention to your joints. But the complex machinery of our body depends on these tiny cogs to move, bend, and turn. We wouldn’t be able to do a million things needed to get through each day without healthy joints.

Joint pain is a common enough problem but it can turn simple everyday tasks into a challenge and even disrupt your normal life. Your knees, which are your largest joint and take the weight of your entire body, are especially vulnerable. Joint pain can be a result of infections (bone or joint); overexertion strain, or injuries; and, often, arthritis — be it osteoarthritis (where the cartilage in the joints wears away, causing bones to rub together), rheumatoid arthritis (where the immune system attacks tissues of the joints, causing pain and swelling), or gout (where uric acid crystals build up in the…