Slash Arthritis Pain 79% with This Brazilian Folk Remedy
Could a centuries-old Brazilian folk remedy hold the key to ending your arthritis pain for good?
You see, for generations along Brazil’s coast, people didn’t wait for arthritis to “progress.”
They treated it.
Fishermen whose fingers cramped from hauling nets…women whose knees swelled from years of squatting to harvest shellfish…. they all turned to the same solution.
It wasn’t a pill. It was a local plant that healers crushed into a paste or brewed into teas.
Now, modern research is showing that this simple plant can slash arthritis pain by up to 79%.
It’s not easy to get your hands on – but I’ll show you how to get around that.
The plant is Joseph’s Coat—Alternanthera littoralis. And researchers recently extracted compounds from its leaves and stems and tested them in arthritis models.
Pain dropped 66-79%…
Swelling decreased 42-58%….
The extract performed as well as prednisolone—a powerful prescription steroid.
But WITHOUT the steroid’s brutal side effects. No bone loss. No immune suppression. No weight gain or mood swings.
They wanted to know HOW it worked, so researchers dug deeper.
Chemical analysis revealed the active compounds: flavonoids. Specifically quercetin derivatives, vitexin, and isovitexin.
These compounds BLOCK the inflammatory cascade destroying your joints—TNF-α, IL-6, MMP-3, MMP-13.
They protect cartilage from degradation, and provide antioxidant effects that prevent tissue damage.
That means the coastal healers were right all along.
Now, Joseph’s Coat extract isn’t commercially available yet, but I expect that could change and we’ll let you know the minute it does.
But here’s the good news…
Scientists identified the key active compound responsible for Joseph’s Coat’s anti-arthritic effects: Quercetin.
And quercetin is widely available RIGHT NOW—and has already been tested in humans.
In one study Middle Eastern researchers tested 50 women with active rheumatoid arthritis. The group taking quercetin showed significant improvements…
TNF-α levels dropped—the SAME inflammatory protein Joseph’s Coat blocks….
Pain decreased….
Morning stiffness improved….
DAS-28 disease activity scores—the standard measure of rheumatoid arthritis severity—significantly improved….
All in just 8 weeks.
Quercetin supplements are widely available over the counter. You should talk about quercetin with your doctor to make sure it doesn’t interact with any of your other medications, but he’ll probably tell you it has an excellent safety profile.
The effective dose from the human trial: 500mg daily.
You can take it as a single 500mg dose or split it to 250mg twice daily with meals.
Look for high-bioavailability formulas or quercetin paired with vitamin C or bromelain—both enhance absorption significantly.
To ending the stiffness and pain for good,
Rachel Mace
Managing Editorial Director, e-Alert
with contributions from the research team
Sources:
- Oliveira LFS, Nascimento MVM, Gonçalves RCR, et al. Ethanolic extract from Alternanthera littoralis P. Beauv. shows anti-inflammatory activity in arthritis models: Evidence for participation of TNF-α, IL-6 and IL-10. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 2025;337:118836. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378874125014126
- Javadi F, Ahmadzadeh A, Eghtesadi S, et al. The Effect of Quercetin on Inflammatory Factors and Clinical Symptoms in Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2017;36(1):9-15. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27710596/
