Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis

According to Ayurveda Arthritis is termed as Sandhigata-vaata. Arthritis is one of the disorders of movable joints, bones and muscles. Starting with the hands, it progressively affects all the joints resulting in pain, stiffness and damage to cartilage and, immobility. Ayurveda treatment is specially formulated to provide long lasting relief in all types of arthritis and inflammatory conditions of joints. Arthritis is a disease which causes painful inflammation and stiffness of joints. There is no cure for arthritis in allopathy accept pain relief, but Ayurveda provides the best possible solutions to help manage it.

Rheumatoid Arthritis: According to Ayurveda, Rheumatoid arthritis can be compared as “Ama vata“. This means ” If the disease “ama vata” (rheumatoid arthritis) gets aggravated, it becomes most difficult disease comparatively to others. The joints of hands, feet, ankles and elbow, low back, knee, and hip become inflamed and painful. The pain in the affected joints resembles the pain of a scorpion’s sting.”

It’s an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints. While inflammation of the tissue around the joints and inflammatory arthritis are characteristic features of rheumatoid arthritis, the disease can also cause inflammation and injury in other organs in the body. The disease usually begins gradually with fatigue, morning stiffness (lasting more than one hour), widespread muscle aches, loss of appetite, and weakness. Eventually, joint pain appears. When the joint is not used for a while, it can become warm, tender, and stiff. When the lining of the joint (synovium) becomes inflamed, it gives off more fluid and the joint becomes swollen. Joint pain is often felt on both sides of the body, and may affect the wrist, knees, elbows, fingers, toes, ankle or neck.

It can affect multiple other organs of the body, It’s referred to as a systemic illness and is sometimes called rheumatoid disease & is a progressive illness that has the potential to cause joint destruction and functional disability. It can also produce diffuse inflammation in the lungs, membrane around the heart (pericardium), the membranes of the lung (pleura), and white of the eye (sclera), and also nodular lesions, most common in subcutaneous tissue. Although the cause of rheumatoid arthritis is unknown, autoimmunity plays a pivotal role in both its chronicity and progression.

Symptoms:

• Vriscik damsha vata vedana (Morning pain severe in nature)
• Sanchari Vedana (shifting pain)
• Stambha (stiffness of joints)
• Jwara (Increase temperature)
• Karmahani (loss of movements)
• Sandhi Vikruti (joint deformity)
• Kshudhamandya (Loss of appetite)

Why Ayurveda for Arthritis?

In Ayurveda, Arthritis can be compared with all inflammatory conditions of the joint. In this mainly involved is vata-dosha along with this it vitiates other doshas as well as dhatus and causes diseases. Ayurveda is proved to be the best method to cure arthritis.

Prognosis: Disease with early onset and single dosha prominence in young individual can be cured with proper treatment and with religiously following instructions strictly. As the disease become chronic it involves multiple systems, which makes the disease incurable. If it is present with signs of complications then it may produce serious threats to life.
Treatment: If patient can come for the treatment in early stages of the disease, even complete cure is also possible provided patient follows all the guideline including all treatment along with diet restrictions strictly. In chronic cases, complete cure may not be possible but control over the disease and dependency on allopathic medicines can be reduced. In Ayurveda following are the lines of treatment in Amavata (Rheumatoid arthritis):

• Langhanam (Fasting)
• Sodhana chikitsa (Purification of the body)
• Shamana chikitsa (Treatment for subsiding the symptoms)

Langhana (fasting) – It can done by two ways, one complete absence of food, and second by light food giving green gram / rice / barley soups etc. Only light and easily digestive food.

Shodhana – It is done through Panchakarma therapy and other Ayurveda therapies by Panchkarma therapies Abhyanga (oil massage to the joints), Nadi sweda, Kati vasti, Greeva vasti, Udwartana for rheumatoid arthritis. Usually treatment is long term and various procedures are done recurrently according to the condition. Where we provide the best treatment for with a high success rate

Shaman Chikitsa – It is done by using very effective and time tested Ayurveda formulations like kashaya, asavarista. Choorna, vati, taila, Rasoushadi etc.

Special strict diet and life style recommended. we are providing a very effective treatment methodology for treating Rheumatoid Arthritis (Ama-vata).

Exercises: Special yoga and asnas according to patient’s special body requirements.