Gout
I had a brush with gout a few years ago, in that joint of the left big toe. If you ever want to COMPLETELY disable a person, put this particular pain into the joint of their big toe.
Disabling pain.
I imagine I can bear this or that. I imagine when pain comes I will be able rise above it, or put my attention somewhere else, or remember that I am not the physical body. All very good theories… and quite imaginary.
When I encounter death, will the pain will be all consuming? I have seen that. Do I imagine I will be able to separate soul from body and use the pain to rise up? Imagine away little man! Here is a toothache that will drive you out of your mind. Have at it! Please! go ahead, raise your soul above the pain in your mouth.
All this is imagination, my conception of myself goes flying out the window.
The strange thing is, even imagining that I can rise above the pain is itself an impediment to rising above the pain.
Last week I had bacon every morning, because that seems good when you are camping. At the end I got “that pain” in my left big toe. While my thoughts were busy analyzing the situation, my body was quietly saying: it’s coming… it is coming again. Luckily there was a store which had black cherry juice - that miracle from great nature. I drank two liters of it over the next two days, and the magic happened and “that pain” went away.
Last year I had a very bad tooth infection, one so bad that I instinctively felt death approaching. One single “something-hydro-codon-heroin-something” pill COMPLETELY took away the pain. Like a magic wand. My skin still had complete sensation - yes, I explored touch, heat, cold, roughness, etc. I still had the usual sensations of the bulk of my body. And somehow the shattering pain in my tooth was gone. Gone. Completely GONE. WTF? What is going on? What are these drugs? What pain are they removing? I could still press a knife against my skin and feel pain. Why could I no longer feel the disabling pain in my mouth?
Like all normal people I avoid pain. Tooth infections and gout prove to me that I am not the powerful man I imagine myself to be. Here is a conundrum. I do not want to live my life in imagination, and I do not want disabling physical pain. These two are incompatible.
No one understands the pain of gout until they have it. My father used to get it, I never could imagine what he was going through. I had my first attack at 33. I walked into A&E and said I think I have gout, the reason? Unimaginable pain.
I begged them to amputate the foot, I was serious. Over 4 hours if testing, I was given a range of thinks to attempt to relieve the pain. I asked for strong anti-inflamatories, I got basic paracetamol, then diamorphine injections, no pain relief, Nitrous Oxide worked, for about 10 seconds after every huff, I finished the can.
At the end of 4 hours, examinations, x-rays and blood test, they said "We think you have gout". After the Naproxin started to take effect, the pain became bearable.
Yesterday I was picking black cherries which are perfectly ripe now. 2 weeks ago, I made a large jar of compote from some others which I have been having with my breakfasts.
Yesterday I had bacon.
Could be an existential crisis Dr. C.! :)
Dr. H. combines both of these issues: the soul has an (in this case let's say existential) issue; the body then expresses the issue physically as gout.
Dr. Hamer proved that the way in which issues manifest can be reverse engineered (so succinct the correlation is) to a specific issue in the soul.
CT scans show where the soul's issue hits the brain which in turn relays to a specific organ/region - they all get struck immediately when the soul finds itself in a bind or suffering a shock. Hamer mapped the correlations over many years and it's solid, though it can be a time-consuming art to realise.
So... With the exception of accidents and poisoning (food/water/medicine etc.), illness begins in the soul. https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/bones.html#Bones_PCL_Tendons_Gout
That said, I agree with another reader that oxalates (lots in bacon) build up and cause chaos (herb broth is brilliant to calm this), and that castor oil, DMSO and your juice are as good as suggestions come. Earthclinic also suggests apple cider vinegar which looks popular too.
https://www.earthclinic.com/cures/gout.html