January - January symbols. 1  January's birthstone is the garnet, which represents constancy. 2  Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. 3  The Chinese floral emblem of January is the Prunus mume. 4  The Japanese floral emblem of January is the camellia (Camellia sinensis).
Patients receiving prolotherapy injections have reported generally mild side effects including: mild pain and irritation at the injection site (often within 72 hours of the injection), numbness at the injection site, or mild bleeding.
Prolotherapy is a treatment that has been around for a long time, but still lacks definitive clinical evidence for efficacy. The plausibility of an effect is dubious, but not impossible. It does not appear to work for back pain.