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Arthritis is a degenerative or wear and tear disease of the joints common in elderly and obese people. Though, it is mainly the disease of mature age but nowadays it also affects the younger people. Arthritis is painful inflammation of joints affecting large weight bearing joints like knees, hips and also spine. The disease causes joint stiffness, pain, swelling and limitation of motion. Pain increases with motion and decreases with rest.
Causes of Arthritis: Usually this disease is observed in such patients whose body`s accumulation of morbid matter is of acidic nature. Due to the alkaline nature of bones, acidic morbid matter has a tendency to move towards the bones so that it could be neutralized by their alkalinity. In this process, it usually gets deposited in the joints and the symptoms of swelling and pain start. According to Yoga and Naturopathy wrong eating, living and thinking habits are the principal causes of this painful disease. Treatment of Arthritis by Nature Cure: The objective of treatment is to relieve pain, prevent recurrence and disability. Thus, one can start with a gentle massage with red oil and exercise of joints. Water Treatments: The patient may take Hot and cold fomentation of the joints where swelling and pain is present. Application of cold pack wrapped up by woolen dry bandage or hot pack is the best treatment for such patients. Even hot mudpack can be applied to affected joints, to treat localized inflammation and pain, but direct cold baths should be avoided. Steam bath, once or twice a week or occasionally can also be practised. Full tub bath, warm water enema for cleansing of the bowels and neutral hipbath with Epsom salts for 15-20 minutes should also be taken. Diet: The patient should take proper care of his diet by fasting and hence, taking a weight reducing diet. They should give special attention to the change of their diet. His diet should also contain an alkaline diet by including vegetables like cabbage, carrot, cucumber, lettuce, onion, radishes and tomatoes, as raw salads to avoid constipation. In severe cases, patients may be put on raw vegetable juice therapy for a week. Even fruits should be taken like sweet orange, sweet lemon, Mousami, Pineapple. Chakotara. Alkaline action of raw juice dissolves deposits around the joints. Raw potato juice is also effective. Even the juice of bitter gourd is also helpful for clearing the bowels. Even edibles like Amla, honey, lemon and green water helps in getting rid of the constipation, or else lukewarm anema should be taken. Cooked or boiled vegetables grown organically may include beet, cauliflower, carrot, brinjal, mushroom, green peas, spinach, turnips, tomato, etc. One should also intake green gram soups mixed with powdered fenugreek seeds. However, the diet of the patient should exclude foods of acidic nature like bread, eggs, oily and fried food all flesh foods like meat, fish, pulses, high protein diet, sprouts coffee, tea, chocolate and alcohol. Exercises: Walking two km a day increases bone mineral density. Even regular exercises should be done to improve muscle tone. However, it should be noted that patients with high ESR, uric acid or high blood sugar level might take a longer period in getting relief. Treatment of Arthritis by Yogic Asanas: Most of the exercises of Yogic Sukshma Vyayama are beneficial in this disease. Helpful yogic asanas are: shavasana, naukasan, Surya Namaskar, Tadasana. Katichakrasana, Konasana, Padahastasana, Ekpadotanasana, Supta Pavanmuktasana, Merudanda Ghumava-asana, Bhujangasana, Dhanurasana, Vajrasana, Gomukhasana, Siddhasana, Ardha Matsyendrasana and Pashchimottanasana may be practised regularly. Suryabhedi, Bhastrika and Nadi Shodhana Pranayama are especially beneficial in this disease condition. Treatment of Arthritis by Magnetic Therapy: Depending on the portion of the body affected, apply magnets to the palms of Hands or the soles of feet. Initially, the application may be taken in the morning starting with 10 minutes for the first week and gradually increasing the duration to 30 minutes within a fortnight. An additional application of the magnets to the outer sides of knees in the evening for 15 minutes is also advisable, with North Pole to the left knee and the South Pole to the left knee. An extra application may also be carried out in case of acute pain in the knee or wrist or any other joint after application of north-pole oil. Mixed magnetized water is absolutely essential in this disease to rid the organism of deposits of uric acid. | |||||||||||||||||||
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During an acute attack, the normal moving and bending of joints becomes extremely painful and the patient is obliged to minimize the use of the affected joint. The counter consequence being that the movement of the affected organ becomes more and more restricted and leads to progressive stiffening and deformity. The condition in the acute stage is accompanied by redness of the joint, pain and swelling. This disease is also supposed to be incurable from treatment point of view.