Staying healthy is made easier when you use the trial and error method by doing little mini experiments on yourself.

For example, I have been in a lot of pain for the past 4 hours; it's my neck that is hurting and it is now 7:45 p.m. My neck hurts because of old injuries to it in car accidents, compounded by too much desk work. With so much pain, I believe it is time for a little mini experiment.

You see, the chiropractor's office is closed for the day and so are the massage therapists. Do you ever experience days where this type of thing happens to you? Days where you want to yell at the top of your lungs, "Take the pain away!"

Complaining Does Not Help: Only a Pain Relief Solution Will Work

The pain and situation could be really bad and go on for days at a time. Some people who have excruciating pain will turn to medical marijuana to numb the pain. Using medical marijuana can be a difficult decision; it can be an invitation to criminals to come and "take the stash". But now, you don't need a stash because the pot can be added to lollipops, tea or the traditional brownies. Using medical marijuana may work for some people but it won't really work for me.

Pain relief methods that have worked previously may also work now. For example, using gravity boots to hang upside down always worked. In two minutes flat, the pain is gone with the upside down position. The problem associated with this is that it can be difficult to essentially throw the legs over the bar to hang from. A background in gymnastics would probably make this an easier task.

Taking three capsules of Vitamin E also has helped in the past. It takes about two hours to reduce the pain. Many people don't know that vitamin E has a specific function with muscles; that's why it works.

Drinking more water seems to help as well. A few cups are ineffective but four or more cups can cut the pain.

Exercising on the K1 machine also helps. This is a triangular oscillating system that shakes the body at a certain frequency that is thought to align the cells with the frequency they have when healthy. In studies, endorphins and enkephalins were produced in people that used the machine. It takes about 10 minutes of shaking for it to work. Stepping off the K1, the pain will be gone.

Without Friends Our Isolation Becomes Painful in Many Ways

Friends send me new neck pain relief methods all the time. I had reserved one friend's supplement for a time of excruciating pain so that I could see its true benefits. Cancer patients used this particular one; they have pain worse than I do. Cancer pain can go on for years after cancer treatments. My friend's husband had used this method to decrease the pain of a herniated disk in his neck. Something good enough for cancer patients was good enough for me to try. I turned on the burner with the tea kettle at 7:50 p.m. and now the experiment had begun.

The supplement packet is poured into the coffee cup and the boiling water fills the cup. Now it's just a matter of waiting for it to cool.

8 p.m. Ready for the first sip. What will the taste be like? Actually it's not sweet and it's not bad. The taste is neutral and it is palatable and it passes the gag test. Just drink it down and see what happens to the neck pain.

8:03 p.m. Pain still there. No difference.

8:04 p.m. Pain is getting lighter. This is interesting.

8:06 p.m. Pain has disappeared! How could it happen? How could it work so fast and not be a drug? Well, I better wait a minute because the results could be temporary.

8:25 p.m. Pain is still gone totally. I can move my neck in every direction. It's as if I had no pain at all, ever. What's in it?

The list of ingredients is long: Red Peony, White Peony, Red Sage, Astragalus, Stevia (for sweetening), Cyperus, Circuma rhizome, Lotus Node, Hawthorn fruit Cnidium, Notoginseng, Licorice Root and Codonopsis. All these ingredients are herbs, many of them are Chinese herbs. There is no sugar. No grains. No drugs or chemicals. No artificial Red # blank. No dairy products. No soy. No preservatives either. This is a totally natural product that many people would approve of.

And the beauty is that it worked pretty fast right before my very eyes.

Those cancer patients really had a secret there that they weren't sharing with anyone else. They knew how to stop excruciating pain with a simple cup of herbal tea.

I asked my friend who else she had told about this. She said other people who had intractable pain, shingles, tooth pain (before they got to the dentist), back pain, and headaches. I mentioned we should add neck muscle pain to the list.

The neck pain relief lasted 25 hours, then came back but was only minor on the 1-10 pain scale. I visited my chiropractor for an adjustment. Then the neck pain relief lasted another four days.

There are alternative methods of neck pain relief out there. Sometimes we just have to explore a little.