« Rheumatoid arthritis: beneficial aliments and factors ».

Author: Fabiana Arca. Published the 27^th October 1999, ISBN 2-9700246-0-8, 40 pages, format A3, language only available in French.

This book is first addressed to people who have rheumatoid arthritis. The author, affected by this illness, collected newspaper articles and information on the subject from all sources. In the above mentioned book 383 aliments and factors concerning rheumatic illnesses are described. The author recorded the information found over a period of 10 years and reported it accurately in her book as described in the articles with the mention of the bibliographical source.

The list of aliments and factors are presented in 3 tables: an alphabetically sorted one for quick search on aliments; another is sorted by illness (such as rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis, rheumatism and other rheumatic illnesses under other definitions); and finally the last is sorted by vegetable family (showing antirheumatic plants belonging to the same family).

The data collected presents antirheumatic aliments and factors most frequently mentioned and cited, mainly in Switzerland, from 1989 to 1999.

Using the collected data and "observation" the author has formulated 14 hypothesis of common characteristics of antirheumatic remedies.

The book will allow people affected with rheumatoid arthritis to:

• discover antirheumatic aliments and factors and to know their possible effects;
• to verify their own intuition on food desire;
• to improve their health and well being by integrating into everyday cooking and according to their taste, common aliments with antirheumatic properties.

These antirheumatic aliments and factors do not substitute classical medical treatment. They may, for some people, increase their wellness or allow quantitative reduction of medical consumption.

This study was done with the supervision of:

Professor Alexander So, chief doctor of the " Rheumatic" Service at the CHUV (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois) in Lausanne, Jean-Louis Moret, botanist and conservator at the cantonal botanical gardens in Lausanne, Muriel Pahud-Noverraz, general secretary of the Vaudoise league against Rheumatism and Sylvie Nicoud, biologist who made a comparative statistics between antirheumatic plants presented in this study and medical plants for other illness, in order to confirm the proposed hypothesis's.

The author first presented this study to the Polyarthitical association Vaud group, on the 27^th October 1999 in Lausanne, and this article was published in the Journal SPV/ASP INFO of Swiss Association of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Zürich, June 2000.

You can receive this book, only available in French :

• within Switzerland: price 13.50 swiss francs (postal charges included), by sending your address to: Fabiana Arca, rue Langallerie 4, 1003 Lausanne, (Vaud), Switzerland or by email to: fabiana_arca@hotmail.com
• other countries: price 22.50 Swiss francs, or 15 Euros, or 18 USA Dollars (postal charges included), please pay by international money postal order to Fabiana Arca, rue Langallerie 4, 1003 Lausanne, (Vaud), Switzerland.

Please no payable bank cheque because of expensive tax !

After payement you will receive the book.