Talk:Rheumatism
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glucosamine
My friend said to take glucosamine and aspirin for my rheumatism. I have started it today. --Mihai cartoaje 23:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
- Potassium cyanide salts work better! (Take with a warm cup of tea.) By the way, i'm also your friend.
Treatment
As with many sicknesses there seems to be a connection between rheumatism and nutrition. Whoever eats a lot of pork or other cuts of wild pig suffers sooner from rheumatism than vegetarians. Unfortunately I can't verify this by any scientific study. But my friend who is a hunter covers his protein needs through the consumption of his quarry. He himself is not afflicted that I know of but his wife is and to a very high degree. Other acquaintences with rheumatism consume meat over proportionately. I'm passing this information on for anyone suffering from rheumatism and is not getting cured through normal medical treatment. A change of diet costs nothing and could well relieve pain. Don't expect relief within a few days. It could well take sdeveral weeks. AdrianAbel (talk) 09:58, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
pressure
There might be a mistake regarding the atmospheric pressure statement. The article discusses how gases are more dense as they cool. This is true. However, this is NOT the same thing as pressure. A gas's expansion due to heat increases pressure but decreases density. The reason for this is easily explained by the following example: Take a cubic meter of Mystery Gas A. Let's say it has a pressure of 100 Fictitious Pressure Units at a temperature of 50 Fictitious Temperature Units. If you increase the temperature of our cubic meter of Mystery Gas A to 500 Fictitious Temperature Units, the gas's molecules will want to expand to occupy a greater volume. It will try to occupy a volume greater than one cubic meter. If there isn't any resistance, it will do so and retain a near-constant pressure. However, the atmosphere is not a resistance-free environment. It can't expand ever-upward without resistance. It can't expand laterally without resistance, either. Because the volume the gas has isn't infinite and without resistance, the increased temperature will cause an increase in atmospheric pressure even though the density of the gas has decreased. Perhaps a more clear example of why this happens is when the volume is even more resistive--perhaps a metal gas cylinder. If you take a canister of CO2 that is full and sit it over a heat source, the pressure will increase inside of the cylinder. It will eventually rupture if the pressure becomes high enough. On the other hand, you can chill the cylinder and the pressure will go down until the gas eventually either liquefies or solidifies (or the cylinder's particular metal alloy becomes too brittle to hold what pressure remains). You can see this effect in paintball equipment, for example, as the markers will not shoot as well after many rapid shots. The pressure in the CO2 tank decreases and so does the temperature.
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