{"id":12596,"date":"2013-08-28T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2013-08-09T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T23:38:14","slug":"emu-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/emu-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Emu Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a pharmacist, when my manager informed me 10 years ago that we would be stocking emu oil, I was a bit skeptical &#8212; would snake oil be far behind? But emu oil really is one of the best multi-purpose non-prescription <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17638122\">anti-inflammatories<\/a> I&#8217;ve ever come across. It&#8217;s the best treatment I&#8217;ve ever used for sunburn &#8212; much better than fresh aloe\u2014rapidly tames the pain and helps heal sun damage.  When I over-strain my muscles, if I give them a good rub with emu oil before bedtime, that dreaded &#8220;second-day soreness&#8221; never arrives. It&#8217;s good for bug bites (reduces itching), scars (helps heal and minimize them), arthritis, tendonitis, and miscellaneous aches and pains; it helps calm and heal any kind of skin inflammation or irritation, and is reputed to reduce the incidence of wrinkles if used on a regular basis.  <\/p>\n<p>Emu oil can also be used in conjunction with other anti-inflammatories (hydrocortisone, or salicylate creams such as BenGay), anti-histamines (Benadryl), or other healing agents or emollients (such as aloe) if necessary. It&#8217;s a skin penetration enhancer, so it helps the other meds work more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a particularly handy item in my travel kit: since it has so many different uses, it reduces the number of items I need to pack. It gets used on every trip, one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>Buy a smaller bottle than you think you might need; a little goes a long way, and it can eventually go rancid (it still works at that point, but it will smell a bit funky).  One or two ounces is plenty for most people.  Health food stores often stock it, and Amazon, of course.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even better than snake oil for treating inflammation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12754,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions\/12754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}