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Hi all,

Unfortunately, I'm one of many who suffer from RLS and my Doctor has given me prescriptions for different medicines, but just haven't found the "magic bullet" yet.

However, by accident, I found something that seems to make the RLS a little less severe...diet root beer. This past weekend my grandson, 8 yr.s old, was visiting. Towards the end of the day he wanted to play some games on my computer and also ask for a soda. My wife gave him a root beer, but she forgot it was a diet soda. So, of course being a "diet" anything, the grandson didn't want it and just set it aside.

When I went to my computer there was this bottle of soda sitting on my desk and I just couldn't see throwing a full bottle away. Got some ice and had me a root beer. And shortly there after, I went to bed.

That night I didn't seem to be bothered as much with RLS and when I thought about it the next day I remembered the root beer. Will be mentioning this to my Dr. at the next visit. Yes, I'm still taking the medicine he prescribed, but as I mentioned, RLS is one of those mean buggers that don't respond the same to any given medicine.

So, after doing a little research about the medicinal values of root beer, I find there are many variations of root beer, but the one common ingredient seems to be sassafras. Hmmm, seems to me I've heard about the medicinal aspects of sassafras before. Wonder if this is another one of those wonderful things our grandparents knew about but is now gone forever, because it couldn't be "scientifically proven".

Don't get me wrong, I love science, I just don't like the, "it can't be scentifically proven" attitude at times. The only thing that means is, we just haven't developed the proper tools to fully understand or appreciate what's being dismissed.

Anyhow, back to root beer. Has anyone else have any home remedy suggestions for RLS? As a matter of curiosity, does anyone know of a "Home Remedy" type of site? Another instance of a home remedy, that proved to be benefical to us, was from "TractorByNet". My wife used to get poison ivy real bad. It was like me wearing a white shirt to an Italian resturant; just walk through the door and I would attract tomato sauce stains! With her, it seemed like all she had to do was walk down to the mailbox and she'd get poison ivy! But then I read about cashews and poison ivy on TBN and now, even though she can still get it, it doesn't seem as severe or last long.

Again, this is the kind of information that I would really like to know about, and even though the web is available, you have to know what to look for first, and I would have never thought about root beer and RLS nor cashews and pison ivy!?

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