After walking around in relatively good health for most of your life, one day you realize that you have swollen body parts that are not only painful, but are disrupting your entire life.

When your ankles, fee, knees, hands or legs swell the result is profound. Swelling of these types of body parts can hinder the most routine tasks and make every day chores and regimens extremely difficult to manage.

When something is this painful, your entire quality of life is impacted. Even the smallest things are less pleasurable because you are dealing with pain and limitations every moment. It truly is not fair.

Even the healthiest of us at some part of our lives will most likely be faced with annoying health issues that remain small if we are blessed. But nearly all of us will look for some way to find relief to the aches and pains that plague us.

However, turning to expensive doctors and exorbitant prescription bills is not only costly, but also sometimes ineffective. Treatment of much swelling doesn’t always prove to be effective despite much money spent. In addition, some prescription medications geared toward reducing and relieving swelling have unwelcome side effects that can often end up exacerbating the pain and discomfort even more than the original swelling.

Because of this, more and more people who suffer from these ailments are trying to find alternatives to prescription medication. They are looking toward more natural remedies and methods. And some have found relief by a simple plant that grows in the Sonoran desert.

The Prickly Pear Cactus has been used for centuries to help people. It is eaten as a food and also taken as a medicine. It is said to be a natural anti-oxidant as well as a natural anti-inflammatory.

This is why Nopalea Juice, made from the plant, is becoming increasingly popular as a way to reduce swelling, relief joint pain and treat pain in general.

The use of the Prickly Pear Cactus as both food and medicine is traced all the way back to the Aztecs. Now the medicinal benefits of the plant are becoming well known.

It helps that scientists are investigating a link between chronic inflammation and a variety of serious diseases and ailments. That increases the popularity of the plant, which is a natural anti-inflammatory.

If something as simple as stopping inflammation can cure or prevent serious diseases, the entire medical world will be tossed on its head.

Inflammation, the body’s super immune power response to attack, is most often a positive thing. But occasionally, the protective mechanism misfires and goes haywire. When this happens, the inflammation continues long after the battle has been won and the body actually begins attacking itself. This leads to chronic inflammation, which might be traced to serious health problems.

Scientists are looking at the link between the two and other researchers are studying how the prickly pear cactus might help with inflammation and other health ailments.

Chronic inflammation might be linked to everything from acne to cancer to Alzheimer’s.

Author Bio: Frank Yocanis has been researching and writing about Nopalea for the past decade. He has even traveled to the Sonoran desert half a dozen times to study how Nopalea contains amazing properties that help with all kinds of joint pain, including leg swelling. He is excited to share how this antioxidant-rich drink can change your life.

Category: Medicines and Remedies
Keywords: Antioxidant Fruits, Nopalea, TriVita, Natural Antioxidants, Joint Inflammation, Leg Swelling