I think it's high time your husband visited a doctor! This has become even more urgent now with the tingling in the hands. Until there is a diagnosis, you can't expect an appropriate treatment.

You might like to check out some possible causes, but self-diagnosis is NOT the way to go. Get him to the doctor immediately, and go from there.

It would be irresponsible for any of us here to try to make a diagnosis or to recommend a treatment.

Here is a link that might be useful: pain between shoulder blades

I second that... get thee to the doctor NOW!

DOCTOR. NOW. NO EXCUSES!

How much willow water whould this fellow drink to equal the aspirin one is advised to chew when experiencing symptoms of "heart attack" as one is driven to the emergency room?

So... is he still alive?

This fellow, or any other person, should not take anything on the way to the emergency room, and especially not willow or aspirin or anything like it. If surgery is needed, they like the patients to have an empty stomach before having anaesthetics, and they don't need anybody to be taking blood-thinners, thank you very much. Surgery is complicated enough without having silly patients do silly things beforehand. Or afterwards. Good grief.

could be:
1-heart attack
2-gall badder stones or inflammation
3-impingement of a thoracic facet joint
4-impingement of the articulation of a rib to the spine
5-muscle spasm in the levator scapulae, subscapularis, rhomboid, middle trap, or paraspinals
6-bulged cervical disc

None of these are treatable with herbs. See a doctor, and after he rules out heart or gallbladder origins of pain, see a physical therapist. I'd recommend that he come to see me....but that would be a heck of a drive for you guys to get to my clinic.

Granite, the gardening physical therapist