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How to Prevent Foot Cramps with Lavender Oil
Smearing lavender oil on your ankles might sidestep foot cramps and painful toe spasms. Or swallow mustard to stop them.
Mustard For Cramps Has Amazing Scientific Explanation
Skeptics often dismiss remedies that they cannot explain. Such is true for mustard for cramps. But now there is an explanation and it is incredibly elegant!
Can Coenzyme Q10 Control Severe Muscle Cramps?
Coenzyme Q10 supplements appear to prevent painful muscle cramps, including those associated with statin cholesterol drugs.
Can Holding Your Breath Stop Painful Foot Cramps?
Can you make painful foot cramps relax by holding your breath? One reader reports this is the remedy that works best in their situation.
Will Yellow Mustard Ease Cramps from Statins?
Have you heard of SAMS? It stands for statin-associated muscle symptoms. It may be more common than doctors think. Could mustard and/or Coenzyme Q10 help?
End Leg Cramps At Night (Nocturnal Leg Cramps) Fast!
Have you ever had a Charley Horse? Leg cramps at night can be incredibly painful and wake you out of a sound sleep. There are scientific reasons why strange cramp remedies work.
How Much Tonic Water Must You Drink to Ease Leg Cramps?
People with leg cramps sometimes suffer excruciating pain, but what can be done to alleviate it? For some, home remedies like tonic water may be the answer
Will Magnesium Prevent Horrible Muscle Cramps?
Some medications can lead to low magnesium levels. One result might be horrible muscle cramps; another could be irregular heart rhythms.
Why Do So Many Physicians Pooh-Pooh Home Remedies?
Are you a skeptic when it comes to home remedies? Your doctor probably agrees with you. But a surprising number of people report success from home remedies.
How to Stop Hand Cramps with a Bar of Soap
Holding a bar of soap, especially one with a pleasant fragrance, could stop hand cramps quickly by overwhelming olfactory neurons in skin.
How to Stop Cramps Instantly with Yellow Mustard
Swallowing a spoonful of yellow mustard can stop cramps within a minute or two. There is new research explaining how this works.
Surprise: Milk of Magnesia on the Soles of the Feet Can Stop Leg Cramps
Putting milk of magnesia on the soles of the feet can make leg cramps disappear quickly, and may help prevent them in the first place.
Holding a Bar of Soap to Banish Hand Cramps
Holding a bar of soap in the hand for a few minutes is an easy, inexpensive way to help relax painful hand cramps.
Drinking Tonic Water Prevents Nighttime Leg Cramps
The quinine that gives tonic water its distinctive flavor is probably responsible for its ability to prevent nighttime leg cramps.
Skeptics Become Bed Soap Believers To Overcome Leg Cramps
One of our readers' favorite home remedies is soap for cramps. Have you heard of this crazy remedy that calls for slipping a bar of soap under your sheets?
Home Remedies for Hand Cramps: Soap Stories to the Rescue!
Hand cramps can be incredibly uncomfortable. A professional fisherman wrote in and alerted us to a great home remedy to fight painful hand cramps.
Doctor Embraces Old Wives’ Tale
A doctor who disdained yellow mustard for leg cramps as an old wives' tale changed his tune when a spoonful eased his nighttime cramps.
Home Remedies for Holiday Hazards
The holidays seem like fun and games--time to hang out with family and friends. Beware the dangers. We offer home remedies to the rescue.
Simple Remedy Eases Hand Cramps
Putting a bar of soap in your bed for leg cramps is a favorite home remedy, but one reader found it helpful for painful hand cramps, too.
Yellow Mustard Eases Leg Cramps
Leg cramps are an annoying and painful problem, but many home remedies (including simple yellow mustard) have been reported to help by our readers.
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