Ayurveda Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis is an Aamavata disease according to Ayurveda. Ayurveda treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis helps to reduce pain .

 

What is Rheumatoid Arthritis ?

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), according to modern medicine, and Aamavata according to Ayurveda, has an etiological and clinical relationship. Aamavata is a disease complex of which RA is a part. A comparative study of the pathophysiology of this disease by both systems reveals that modern medicine has investigated the mechanism of inflammation and has developed an offense strategy to control it.

Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms

• Joint Pain, tenderness, swelling or stiffness.
• Morning stiffness that lasts for 30 minutes or longer.
• More than one joint is affected.
• Small joints (wrists, certain joints in the hands and feet) are typically affected first.
• The same joints on both sides of the body are affected.

Ayurveda View about RA

Ayurveda follows a defense strategy and it focuses its search on the etiological process, where disequilibrium at a higher level of physiology affects the gastrointestinal tract, causing an immune response that results in inflammation. Ayurvedic diet and way of life, including taking spices and supplements and rehearsing yoga, may profit people living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Ayurveda treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis

 Vata (air), Pitta (fire), and Kapha (water and earth). A dosha is a primary element, or energy, that exists in the body. The recommended diet for those living with RA is similar to those of the ayurvedic condition Amavata. Amavata refers to a disease of the joints and causes identical symptoms to RA.Ayurveda recommends a diet that soothes, or balances out, Vata. Ayurveda cures rheumatoid arthritis by clearing toxins from the body and restoring the Doshas to their balance. Purvakarma and  Panchakarma methods helps in purification of Body.Particularly important is colon cleansing.  Energy is restored to their balance through diet and daily regimen, yoga poses, healing exercises, meditation.