When my mom's joints start to hurt, she eats lots and lots of pigs feet, chicken feet, and ox tail joints. Each are boiled with some spices/herbs and the gelatin that comes from the bones and joints turns into a thick soup. It is so thick that it turns to the consistency of finger jello at room temperature, and she says it works for her. Probably has the same effect as the western medicine purified stuff in a pill.
